Temporal closures are marine resource management strategies that are implemented to control fishing effort, to improve spawning potential by protecting adults during spawning season, or to protect juveniles from depletion during times of recruitment.
Year: 2018
Closure year: 2018
Resolution C-17-02 that amends resolution C-17-01 on Tuna Conservation establishes that:
1. Each purse-seine vessel of over 182 metric tons carrying capacity (IATTC size classes 4, 5 and 6) that fishes for tunas in the EPO shall cease fishing from either (1) 29 July to 8 October 2018; or (2) 9 November 2018 to 19 January 2019.
2. Notwithstanding the above paragraph, a purse-seine vessel that has a Dolphin Mortality Limit in effect may fish during ten days of the respective closure period that the vessel selected, as follows: from 29 September 2018 to 8 October 2017 or from 9 November 2018 to 18 November 2018, but shall not make any floating object sets during that period.
3. Each IATTC Member, Cooperating non-Member (CPC) shall ensure that every one of its vessels ceases to fish during one of these two periods, except that each size-class 4 vessel with an observer on board may make one fishing trip of up to 30 days during its declared closure period
A list of the vessels subject to these closures, and of the closure period that each one will observe, is available below (deadline for the notification of the closure period: 15 July 2018).