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18th Apr 13

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CCSBT

 The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) was established to manage Southern Bluefin Tuna. This tuna was heavily fished in the past, with the annual catch reaching 80,000 tonnes in the early 1960s. Heavy fishing resulted in a significant decline in the numbers of mature fish and the annual catch began to fall rapidly.

In the mid 1980s it became apparent that the SBT stock was at a level where management and conservation was required. There was a need for a mechanism to limit catches. The main nations fishing SBT at the time, Australia, Japan and New Zealand, began to apply strict quotas to their fishing fleets from 1985 as a management and conservation measure to enable the SBT stocks to rebuild.

CCSBT members are: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan.

Click here for a link to the CCSBT website/

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Resolution on Establishing a Program for Transshipments by Large-Scale Fishing Vessels
17/10/2008
Author: The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCBST)
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Behind the Faade: A Decade of Inaction on Non-Target Species in Southern Bluefin Tuna Fisheries
11/10/2007
This report exposes what the authors describe as ‘ten years of inaction‘ by the members of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern B ...
Author: WWF
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Tuna-org
This site serves as an informal framework for sharing information from tuna Regional Fishery Management Organisations (RFMOs). The five tuna RFMOs are:

Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)

Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)

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30/11/2009
Fish fight crucial to survival of islanders
Author: The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
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30/10/2009
Reduction in Southern Bluefin Tuna total allowable catches
Author: Australia Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
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26/10/2009
Southern bluefin tuna quota cuts could be “too little, too late”
Author: fishnewseu.com
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23/10/2009
Talks to tackle troubled times for tuna
Author: The World Today, Australia
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23/10/2007
No progress in protecting southern bluefin tuna, say NGOs
Author: Fishupdate.com
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11/10/2007
Tuna fishing fleets a danger to wildlife in the Pacifc
Author: Fishupdate.com
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11/10/2007
Tuna fishing fleets in the Pacific pose danger to wildlife at sea
Author: WWF
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22/05/2007
More fishing boats, less fish
Author: The Star, Malaysia
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09/02/2007
Greens bid to halt Australia's bluefin tuna fishery defeated
Author: Environment News Service
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22/01/2007
Tuna stocks sink – manage it right or lose it!
Author: WWF
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11/11/2006
Japan to host first meeting of 5 tuna conservation bodies next year
Author: International Herald Tribune, Asia-Pacific
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10/11/2006
AFMA sets SBT quota
Author: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
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17/10/2006
Port Lincoln has world's largest quota
Author: Port Lincoln Times
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12/08/2006
Scientists probe illegal tuna fishing claims
Author: ABC News Online
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03/03/2006
Japan plunders Aussie tuna
Author: The Courier-Mail
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