The Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, is organizing the 19th Working Party on Data Collection and Statistics (WPDCS19) of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC).
This is an important meeting organized by the IOTC and hosted by Department of Fisheries, India.
It will bring together the renowned Scientists and Experts in the field of Tuna fisheries from all around the world.
The IOTC currently has 31 contracting parties and two cooperating non-contracting parties, Liberia and Senegal.
Tunas alone contributing an estimated annual value of trade of US$41 billion (in 2018).