KOBE (Kyodo) The international community must do a better job fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing of tuna, a senior U.N. food agency official said.
"What we really need would be more strong commitments by all states and stakeholders to implement . . . instruments (for tuna conservation) and honor obligations," Jean-Francois Pulvenis, fisheries and aquaculture director of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, said in a recent interview.
Pulvenis, attending the first-ever meeting of five international tuna resource management bodies in Kobe as an observer, said one failure has been correctly gauging the extent of all types of illegal and suspicious fishing.