Implementing rules for fishing in a tuna-rich high seas pocket were released yesterday. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) issued the regulations on group tuna purse seine operations in High Seas Pocket 1 (HSP-1), in Fisheries Administrative Order No. 245-2, Series of 2014, published in a newspaper yesterday. "This policy is designed as a conservation measure primarily to reduce effort in the Philippine waters where juvenile tunas are more likely to be found than in the high seas pocket 1," the order read.

High seas pocket fishing rules released. (2014, March 4). BusinessWorld, p. S1/6.