Tuna will be conserved with the ban and the global quota

Tuna fishers who work in the eastern Pacific will have to be more austere with the use of the resources of this part of the ocean, and for this, they shall be subject to new rules. Now they must not only respect the 62 days of closure per year but in 2017 they will be obliged to comply with a global fishing quota.

The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (CIAT) decided, on a regional basis, that this limit will be 97,711 tons per year for yellowfin and bigeye tuna, one of the most efficient methods used by Ecuador and others countries to improve their level of production.