Crédito: NOAA/Proyecto NASA GOES. Una coalición global lanza un innovador proyecto en el mar para proteger las reservas de atún y la vida marina
Representantes de la industria pesquera,científicos, investigadores y pescadores de atún han embarcado hace unos días en Manta, Ecuador para spend the next two months at sea and launch the next phase of global coordination to promote effective and practical techniques to reduce the environmental impact of tuna fishing.
The purse seine vessels, which use large fishing nets, provide the world with millions of tons of tuna per year. When crews used floating objects to catch the fish, known as FADs, make this method more efficient with respect to time and fuel. But there is a major setback - in his capture marine life also takes no interest. 5% of the average of the capture of a ship is consisting of non-tuna fish and sharks.
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has urged the remarkable reduction of potentially harmful waste to the environment, investing more than a year in the provision of detailed planning of a worldwide project that includes research, training for fishermen and development of new techniques and uses for existing technology. "The problem has been identified and spectrum," said Susan Jackson, director general of the ISSF. "Now is the time to enter the water and carry out a major improvement in the industry that will help us to remain viable without that jeopardize global tuna resources and the complex marine ecosystem of the ocean ".
This first trip - a scientific collaboration between the ISSF and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) - spend two months in the eastern Pacific Ocean aboard the Yolanda L, a seine boat owned Infripesca Fish Fridges, commanded by Captain Ricardo Diaz. There will be a working boat Yolan apart from L to run multiple experiments on tuna aggregations associated with FADs, will be equipped with a remote operated vehicle (ROV), a next-generation acoustic probe and acoustic tracking systems. These technologies are used by scientists to explore and identify potentially new fishing practices that allow purse seine vessels to continue fishing for tuna healthy stocks while minimizing the impact on vulnerable species.
"Actually the entire fishing industry has a certain level compensation and environmental impact. Some have called for abandoning these fisheries, a move that industry has warned that it could reduce the supply of tuna half, bringing thousands of lost jobs and greater financial contraction in the economies in development, "said Jackson." Rather than leave and abandon, we should help the industry willing to improve its practices. The eastern Pacific Ocean is an important place to start because of the impact on fisheries aims to network FAD purse in a kind of tuna called bigeye. The reserve in the region has struggled to recover from overfishing suffered in recent years.
senior scientist of the IATTC, Kurt Schaefer, will lead the equipment aboard the Yolanda L in tests with the promise of reducing the amount of fishing with big eyes on the networks. The researchers are also looking for ways to prevent the involvement of turtles and sharks in FADs to try different designs made from biodegradable materials. "This trip will help our team of scientists and collaborators to improve the training workshops that are already doing with fishing crews from around the world," said Dr. Victor Restrepo, president of ISSF Scientific Advisory Committee. "As scientists identify new solutions, will incorporate the findings in workshops so that employers and masters of vessels to provide real-time feedback. If something is not real or fishermen have an idea of \u200b\u200bhow to improve it, we will be able to bring that idea to water. " Already been made workshops in fishing ports in America, Africa, Europe and the region of the Pacific Islands. In the coming months is scheduled to be held more workshops. While the first draft of a ship shall work in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the oceans western and central Pacific and Atlantic side trips take place next year.
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is a global coalition of scientists, the tuna industry and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the main organization conservation of the world, which promotes science-based initiatives for long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks, reducing the catch and promote a healthy ecosystem.
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is responsible for the conservation and management of tunas and tuna-like and other species listed by the fishing of tuna and similar tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The aim of the committee is to ensure the long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks covered by their convention, according to relevant rules of international law. Was created in 1949 by an agreement between Costa Rica and the United States, as amended in 2003 by the Antigua Convention, and currently has 20 members and two non-cooperating parties.
Source: PRNewswire
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