USTF supports international efforts to conserve and manage highly migratory fish stocks such as tuna. USTF believes this can best be achieved through an international commitment to take measures to prevent or eliminate IUU fishing, over-fishing and excess fishing capacity and to ensure that levels of fishing effort do not exceed those commensurate with the sustainable use of the fishery resources.
USTF also supports international efforts that are technologically and economically practicable to mitigate by-catch. In addition, USTF supports, when necessary, the adoption of conservation and management measures for species belonging to the same marine ecosystem or associated with or dependent upon the target tuna stocks, with a view to maintaining or restoring such species above levels at which their reproduction may become seriously threatened.
