November 21, 2023 — The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meeting in Cairo, Egypt has come to a close, with a mix of conservation and management progress and status quo.
Ahead of the meeting, which ran from 13 to 20 November, 2023, NGOs called for the commission to establish strategies to rebuild Atlantic bigeye tuna stock, maintain yellowfin tuna stocks within the total allowable catch (TAC), and establish a management procedure for skipjack tuna. On all of those measures, ICCAT rolled over the management it was already using, effectively delaying any changes in management for another year.