On March 18, the administrative court of Reunion Island canceled part of the multi-year management plan for toothfish that the administration of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands had developed in 2019. (Taaf). She responded to requests from the Réunion Pêche Australe shipping line, who had been refused a fishing license in the area and denounced the “barrier to entry” for new operators created by the management plan, which ran until 2025. Administrative judges considered that precedence in the fishery was taken into account excessively when examining requests for new armaments. The Taaf will therefore have to get back to work to present a new, less restrictive resource management plan..
