Five RFMOs worldwide oversee tuna fisheries management in their respective ocean regions. These “tuna RFMOs” have the legal frameworks, geographic scope, and membership to facilitate positive change across global tuna fisheries.

Tuna RFMOs are intergovernmental organizations that carry out data collection, scientific monitoring and management of tuna and tuna-like resources. The five tuna RFMOs are: Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna

Today, RFMOs cover the majority of the world’s seas. They can broadly be divided into RFMOs focusing only on the management of highly migratory fish stocks, notably tuna and tuna-like species (‘tuna-RFMOs’) and RFMOs that manage other fisheries resources (i.e. pelagic or demersal) in a more specific area.

2025年2月13日 · Each year, ISSF identifies priority actions for tropical-tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) to take to improve fishery sustainability in their regions. To shape RFMO discussion and decision-making, ISSF’s science and advocacy experts have outlined their concerns and advice for 2025.

2025年2月20日 · Based on where it has tuna-fishing interests, a country can apply to join, and follow the regulations of, a tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO). Some countries belong to more than one RFMO. The table below shows which countries are affiliated with a tuna RFMO:

Because of the distinct nature of tuna fisheries, all over the world specific RFMOs have been established explicitly to manage fisheries for tuna and tuna-like species. With one exception, Tuna RFMOs are not species-specific RFMOs, but address the management of fisheries for many different species of tuna.

2019年9月1日 · We review recent approaches and challenges in monitoring and estimating recruitment for the main commercial tuna species managed under the auspices of the five tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (tRFMOs), including: (i) the stock assessment and management context, (ii) fisheries-independent recruitment monitoring successes ...

2024年9月1日 · This article examines whether and how the tuna-RFMOs have implemented legal obligations applicable to minimize catch by abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear through a systematic assessment of all their adopted conservation and management measures between 2000 and 2023.

2023年9月1日 · Where fisheries involve a high seas catch, regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs) play an important role in preventing IUU fishing [11]. There are currently five tuna RFMOs and eight general RFMOs across the world [12].

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission was established under Article XIV of the FAO Constitution and is responsible for the management of tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas, north of the Antarctic Convergence.