Fiji, Dec. 2 -- WWF has issued one of its strongest warnings yet to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), telling members gathering in Manila this week that the region's tuna fishery cannot be sustainably managed without final action on observer coverage, transshipment controls, harvest strategies and FAD management.

In a position paper submitted to WCPFC22, WWF says the Commission's continued failure to fix monitoring gaps is "the single largest obstacle" to effective tuna management and urges members to stop delaying measures that are central to the world's biggest tuna fishery.

"The lack of sufficient on-the-water monitoring is one of the biggest obstacles to the sustainable management of global tuna and ecosy...