It's sold in cans or as sashimi, but now bigeye tuna is threatened by years of overfishing.
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00:28At current catch levels, within the next 15 years, the stock is 60 times more likely to completely collapse than to recover.
00:38And that is obviously very concerning.
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01:23The current catch is even higher than what's allowed because of some loopholes in the measure.
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01:49The number one priority this year is the big eye tuna and the need to adopt a very strong recovery plan for this stock that has been overfished for many years.
01:58And now in 2018 we've confirmed that it's in the worst shape that it's ever been before.
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02:22I think there are two specific measures we need to introduce.
02:26One is to reduce the overall catch in line with advice from the scientific committee.
02:33And the second one is to reduce catch of juveniles caught by so-called fish aggregating device fishing technology.
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