Islatuna was established on November 4, 2004 by 20 vessel owners.
Tenerife-based tuna producer and fishing association joins IPNLF
SPAIN
Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 22:00 (GMT + 9)
Organización de Productores de Túnidos y Pesca Fresca de la Isla de Tenerife (Islatuna) has joined the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), which offers the non-profit association the opportunity to strengthen its Atlantic Ocean fishery connection.
Over the past 14 years, Islatuna’s membership has grown from 20 to 77 partners, incorporating a total of 81 vessels that are mainly pole-and-line boats, ranging from 12 to 20-plus metres.
The organisation also employs 33 staff in order to fulfil its overriding commitments to ensuring the highest quality products and preserving the local marine environment through the support of responsible, artisanal fisheries.
The majority of Islatuna members are artisanal pole-and-line vessels, as well as two longline vessels.
“We sought to join IPNLF because we share the same ideology and interests; to protect the interests of the artisanal tuna fishery that has been catching tuna with one-by-one methods for more than a century. We believe that the partnership between our fishermen and IPNLF will provide many direct benefits as we seek to achieve our respective objectives,” pointed out Macu da Silva of Islatuna.
For his part, Martin Purves, Managing Director of IPNLF, commented that the addition of Islatuna into IPNLF’s Member network provides a meaningful extension of their reach in the Canary Islands.
Purves explained that Islatuna’s engagement takes IPNLF membership up to 57 partners that share the same mantra – to ensure that the world’s traditional one-by-one tuna fishers and the communities that they come from are given all of the support that they need to safeguard their futures.
“We look forward to working on the ground with Islatuna and the fishers it represents to nurture the fishery and also to elevate its voice on the international stage,” IPNLF executive stressed.
Islatuna strives to bring better returns to local fishers, increase the market competitiveness of its fishery products, provide a unified and collective voice for its fishers at international policy meetings, and facilitate funding through the European Commission’s POSEICAN-Pesca funding programme, which supports fisheries in the Canary Islands.
Fellow Canary Island organisations, the Lanzarote-based Optuna No 42 and El Hierro-based PESCARESTINGA and Cofradia de La Restinga also recently joined IPNLF as members.
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