Purse seine and pole-and-line vessels operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) caught 368,427 metric tons (MT) of tuna in the first-half of this year, an increase of almost 30,000 MT year-on-year, according to the latest estimates from the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC).
While the EPO’s yellowfin catch decreased by more than 8,000 MT to 120,076 MT for the six-month period from 1 January through 2 July 2017, significantly greater volumes of skipjack, bigeye an…
