POLICY BRIEF article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Aquatic Foods
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1577917
Challenges and Opportunities for the Portuguese tuna pole-and-line supply chain from the Portuguese archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira
Provisionally accepted
- 1Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE), Lisbon, Portugal
- 2IMM - CSIC- Institute of Marine Research, Spanish National Research Council, Vigo, Spain
- 3Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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•The tuna pole and line artisanal fleet in the Portuguese archipelagos of the Azores andMadeira depends entirely on these seasonal resources;•Fishers and stakeholders were interviewed, and they have raised several concerns about the low economic value of the catch, the failure to meet market demand and the threats to the survival of the fleet•Fishers and stakeholders interviewed demonstrate a willingness to see an alternative management scheme that puts an end to the race to fish. •Actions to address challenges related to catch quality, prices and market reputation were recommended to ultimately create more opportunities for the Portuguese tuna fleet.
Keywords: fishery, Management, sustainability, Stakeholders, Artisanal
Received: 16 Feb 2025; Accepted: 23 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Silva, Pita, Costa and Teixeira. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Priscila M. Silva, Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE), Lisbon, Portugal
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