date:Dec 27, 2012
ally decided to institute such a system can mean that agreement on management actions is taken too late for the stock to recover.
If they [the RFMO] wait to decide what to do until the stock is in decline, it will be in worse decline by the time theyve agreed, an independent assessor told SeafoodSource. What needs to happen is that a decision on what to do if the stock goes into decline needs to be taken in advance while the stock status is good.
Ironically the WWF, which was instrumental in