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... Furthermore, the high selling price of high-quality bluefin tuna on the raw seafood market in Japan has provided a financial incentive for the expenditure of great effort to pursue and catch these fish. The need for coordinated international management of highly migratory fish species in the Atlantic Ocean was recognized in the mid-1960's, leading to the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, signed on May 14, 1966.
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From page 6...
... These measures included a minimum size limit of 6.4 kg and a limit on fishing mortality to Be levels of 1974. In 1981, ICCAT adopted the premise of a two-stock structure for Atlantic bluefin tuna, one in the eastern and Be other in Be western Atlantic Ocean.
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From page 7...
... The two most contentious issues concerning the management of Atlantic bluefin tuna are the def~nitions and sizes of management units and the indices of abundances that are now used to calculate stock assessments. Opposition to managing the western and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks as separate units has arisen primarily from lack of definitive scientific evidence for genetically-discrete populations, and alternative population structures have been suggested.
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From page 8...
... Accordingly, He Ocean Studies Board established the Committee to Review Atlantic Bluefin Tuna to review and evaluate the scientific basis of U.S. management of fisheries for Atlantic bluefin tuna and to recommend research to resolve remaining stock structure issues.
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