Sustainable fishing reviewed  DISAPPOINTING CATCH:：Greenpeace
said the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission failed
to achieve effective plans for sustainable resource management
By Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter  Sun, Dec 09, 2012 - Page 3
The recently concluded Western and Central Pacific Fisheries
Commission (WCPFC) meeting has decided on temporary measures to
adjust the amount of tuna comprising a sustainable catch and
imposed a ban on setting nets on whale sharks.  According to
Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency, the meeting reached a conclusion on
safeguarding the tuna population in a five-year plan, which is
to set temporary measures to manage fishing of bigeye tuna,
yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna in the first year and establish
a workgroup to plan fish management programs for the following
four years.  The total fish catch in the Western and Central
Pacific Ocean is about 2.4 million tonnes each year, accounting
for about 60 percent of the total global catch, the agency said,
adding that it is al