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WWF is deeply concerned about the failure by Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties (CPCs) to respond to long-term sustainability calls by several NGOs, markets and retailers to secure tuna fisheries to improve food security, livelihoods and income generation for coastal states, and to implement their own Resolution 12/01[1] and international instruments. WWF encourages all CPCs to adopt and implement meaningful actions by unlocking political will, including reaching agreement on the following priorities at the 25th Session of the Commission in June 2021:
 

• Adopt a robust and adequate rebuilding plan for the Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna stock in the IOTC area of competence, applying a 20% reduction from 2017 levels, ensuring that overall yellowfin catches are capped in the lower MSY range (339,000 metric tonnes).
• Reduce the environmental impact of FADs through the mandatory use of electronic tracking and non-entangling and biodegradable FADs, and reduce their impact on juvenile mortality of yellowfin tuna from industrial fishing by setting, among other measures, four-month area closures.
• Address the deficiencies in the harvest control rules (Resolution 16/02) to avoid overcatch of skipjack catches and adopt multi-species tropical tuna management measures where the impact of a fishery (all gears combined) cannot decrease co-dependent stocks to below MSY.
• Ban the use of large-scale driftnets (i.e. over 2.5 km in length) and regulate driftnet/gillnet fisheries by improving data acquisition and reducing their impact on ecosystems and marine megafauna.
• Ensure human safety in tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean.
• Improve conservation and management of endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species.