The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) meeting at Kobe III
manage tuna fisheries in 91 % of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment Group, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC.
Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to
manage harvests of
tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for bluefin
tuna that conservation groups and United States
fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.