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: 2019
Closure year: 2019
Resolution C-17-02 (available below) 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 2019; or (2) 9 November 2019 to 19 January 2020.
2. Each IATTC Member, Cooperating non-Member (CPC) shall ensure that every one of its vessels ceases to fish during one of these two periods.
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 2019).