The new protocol slightly reduces this number to 64, according to the following key-distribution: 38 tuna seiners (18 Spanish and 20 French) and 26 surface longliners (20 Spanish and 6 Portuguese). The number of vessels authorised to fish tuna has been reduced, whereas, at the same time, the volume of tuna catches authorised will go from 9,000 tonnes to 10,500 tonnes a year.
En vertu du nouveau protocole, ce nombre diminuera légèrement pour passer à 64; toutefois, le volume de prises de thon autorisé passera simultanément de 9.000 tonnes à 10.000 tonnes par an.