RESOLUTION 13-01: to Amend Resolution 12-03 to Establish Multi-Annual Commitments
Recognizing the need to amend Resolution 12-03 to take into account new information that has become available since
RESOLUTION 12-03: Transshipment Exemption
At its Board meeting in January 2013, ISSF approved an exemption for tuna transshipped in archipelagic waters of Papua New Guinea.
RESOLUTION 12-03: to Amend Resolution 11-03 to Establish Multi-Annual Commitments
Recognizing the need to amend Resolution 11-03 to take into account new information that has become available since 2011.
RESOLUTION 12-02: Capacity Reduction
Resolution by ISSF to Limit the Growth in Fishing Capacity of the Global Large-Scale Tropical Tuna Purse Seine Fleet.
RESOLUTION 12-01: to Prohibit Shark Finning
A resolution for stronger shark finning policies.
RESOLUTION 10-01 (Amended): RFMO Authorized Vessel Records and Unique Vessel Identifiers
Resolves to adopt the conservation measure that processors, traders, importers, transporters and others involved in the seafood industry refrain from transactions in tuna caught.
RESOLUTION 11-04: Support RFMO Participation
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation Resolves to adopt the conservation measure that processors, traders, importers, transporters and others involved in the seafood industry conduct transactions only with those vessels that are flagged to a member or cooperating non-member of the relevant RFMO (governing the area where the fishing activity occurs), or have applied with the RFMO for such status, effective December 31, 2012.
RESOLUTION 11-03: Establish Multi-Annual Commitments
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation Resolves to adopt the conservation measure that processors, traders, importers, transporters and others involved in the seafood industry, beginning on the Commitment Completion Dates given below, for purse seine caught tuna conduct transactions only with those vessels that comply with specific Commitment Objectives.
RESOLUTION 11-02: WCPFC Purse Seine Tuna Catches
Urge the WCPFC, at its 2011 annual meeting, to enact meaningful conservation and management measures for 2012 and subsequent years that will stop overfishing of the bigeye tuna resource. ISSF supports a complete closure of the purse seine fishery, as opposed to the partial closure (for FAD fishing only) in CMM-08-01, which is not achieving the necessary reduction in fishing mortality of bigeye tuna.
RESOLUTION 11-01: Eastern Pacific Ocean Conservation Measures
Urge all IATTC Members and Cooperating non-Parties to transparently state their intention with regards to implementing Recommendation C-10-01 during 2011, through the IATTC Director.
RESOLUTION 10-3: Mediterranean Albacore Stock
Adopt the conservation measure that processors, traders, importers, transporters and others involved in the seafood industry beginning February 1, 2011, refrain from transactions in albacore tuna caught in the Mediterranean Sea if at its 2010 Annual Meeting ICCAT does not approve the completion of a scientific assessment in 2011.
RESOLUTION 10-02: Large-Scale Pelagic Drift Nets
Recalling the Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, 44/225, 45/197 and 46/215, concerning large-scale, high seas, pelagic driftnets and their impact on the living marine resources of the world’s oceans and seas.
RESOLUTION 10-01: RFMO Authorized Vessel Records and Unique Vessel Identifiers
Recalling that each tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) develops vessel registration requirements and maintains a regional record of such tuna fishing vessels authorized to fish in the Convention Area of that RFMO, and that these records are publically available.
RESOLUTION 09-07: IATTC 2009 Annual Meeting Conservation Measures
Recalling that the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is responsible for monitoring the fisheries for tuna and other tuna-like species taken by vessels fishing in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO), conducting scientific studies of the population of these species and to make recommendations to the governments of the High Contracting Parties to the IATTC which are designed to maintain the populations of tunas and tuna-like species at levels of abundance that can sustain maximum catches year after year.
RESOLUTION 09-06: Mediterranean Albacore Stock
Recalling that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is responsible for monitoring the fisheries for tuna and other tuna-like species taken by vessels fishing in the Atlantic Ocean including the adjacent seas, conducting scientific studies of the population of these species and to make recommendations to the High Contracting Parties which are designed to maintain the populations of tunas and tuna-like species at levels of abundance which will permit the maximum sustainable catch.
RESOLUTION 09-04: Product Traceability
Being aware that enforcement and compliance with existing and future conservation measures, and the successful elimination of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing requires the industry to maintain adequate traceability records.
RESOLUTION 09-05: IATTC 2009 Annual Meeting Conservation Measures
Recalling that the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is responsible for monitoring the fisheries for tuna and other tuna-like species taken by vessels fishing in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO), conducting scientific studies of the population of these species and to make recommendations to the governments of the High Contracting Parties to the IATTC which are designed to maintain the populations of tunas and tuna-like species at levels of abundance that can sustain maximum catches year after year.
RESOLUTION 09-03: Data Support
Recalling that tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (tRFMOs) are responsible for tuna conservation and management with the objective to maintain the populations at levels of abundance that can support the average maximum yield on a sustained basis.
RESOLUTION 09-02: EPO Bigeye
Recalling that the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is responsible for monitoring the fisheries for tuna and other tuna-like species taken by vessels fishing in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO), conducting scientific studies of the population of these species and to make recommendations to the governments of the High Contracting Parties to the IATTC which are designed to maintain the populations of tunas and tuna-like species at levels of abundance that can sustain maximum catches year after year.
RESOLUTION 09-01: IUU Fishing
Noting that this plan of action stipulates that the identification of vessels carrying out IUU activities should follow agreed procedures and be applied in an equitable, transparent and non discriminatory way.