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MeetingMeeting documentChallenges to the pole-and-line tuna fishery in the Maldives 2013
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No results found.Maldivians have been catching tu for nearly 1000 years from the coastal waters, free swimming schools and around drifting objects in the Indian Ocean. Tu catches in the Maldives reached its peak in 2006 with a reported catch of 166,000t (138,000t of skipjack and 23,000t of yellowfin tu). The pole-and-line fishery contributes 75-80% of all tu landings in the country. The remaining is caught by handline, troll line and longline. In the past the tu fishery had some difficulty in attracting young pe ople to work on the vessels. But with the increasing price of tu in the world markets the youth are keener to engage in the tu fishery. Although there is no shortage of fishermen to work on the vessels the fishery is now facing a number of challenges. The increasing oil price and the declining catches have forced several fishers to abandon the tu fishery. The boom in the tu fishery in the middle of the last decade resulted in fishers building larger vessels and install bigger engines. The declin e in fishery has made operation of these larger vessels uneconomical forcing the fishers to abandon these vessels. Another challenge is the lack of adequate livebait resources. Increasing size of the vessels has also put more pressure on the livebait resources. Local decline in livebait resources in some parts of the Maldives has forced the fishers to collect livebait from far away atolls resulting in an increase in the operation cost. Difficulty in obtaining ice and selling their catch was also highlighted by some fishers. In some seasons due to the increased amount of tu landings in the country the price of tu becomes very low making it uneconomical for the fishers to operate their vessels. It was suggested by some fishers that the handline tu fishery targeting large yellowfin has also affected the pole-and- line tu fishery but alysis of logbook data from the past two years has not shown a decline in catch landing in one fishery with an increase in landing in the other fishery. -
DocumentOther documentNotes on YFT/BET ratio and size distributions in the Maldivian pole?and?line Fishery 2013
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MeetingMeeting documentMaldives Skipjack Pole and Line Fishery Catch Rate Standardization 2004-2010 2013
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