date:Jun 07, 2012
towards Mauritania.
A second fleet, under an unknown flag, has also repeatedly been detected in the western Mediterranean, including within the Spanish Fisheries Protection Zone in the Balearic Sea, one of the major fishing areas for bluefin tuna. Most of the vessels in this fleet have been located off the coast of western Algeria, near the Alboran Sea.
WWF immediately submitted this information to the The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Secretariat and