Recent developments in the tuna industry: stocks, fisheries, management, processing, trade and markets.
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This technical paper reviews world tuna fisheries, including fishing operations, stock conditions, management measures and socio-economic aspects of the tuna industry such as recent changes in processing, trade, marketing and consumer preferences. It concludes that, because of the recent rapid increase in competition among fisheries, species, industries and even products (sashimi/fresh tuna versus canned), the most important and most urgent issue is how to manage and allocate tuna reso urces among these competitors (e.g. using fishing capacity control measures and/or catch allocations). In order to achieve this objective, it is imperative that socio-economic and ecological considerations are integrated into decision-making processes alongside capacity and allocation issues. Although this study does not address the broad socio-economic importance of the tuna industry to the countries in which it operates, this type of research will be necessary in the future in orde r to solve current fishery management problems.