The Regional Secretariat of Marine Affairs, Science and Technology promotes the first international meeting on pole-and-line tuna fishing and “one by one” under the title “One hook, line, one fish at a time” held in Horta, Faial Island, the Azores, Portugal, on October 16 and 17, 2017. The Regional Secretary for Marine Affairs, Science and Technology said that this event, which will bring together government leaders from various countries, as well as shipowners, fishermen, industry associations, traders, industry, researchers and members of non-governmental organizations, intends to value an artisanal technique, which is friendly to the environment, also used in the Azores to catch tuna. In this sense, Gui Menezes stressed the need to “sensitize the international community on the importance of defending manual fishing and the fishing rod as an environmentally sustainable gear”, adding that this fishery “should be treated differently from industrial fishing in the extent to which it safeguards the preservation of tuna and respects the marine ecosystem,” not affecting marine animals, such as dolphins. The sustainability of tuna fisheries has been a concern of the Government of the Azores, who has advocated the implementation of more restrictive measures to industrial fisheries of the species at the European Commission and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). It supports the activity developed essentially using purse seines and fish aggregation technology as well as the creation of free marine corridors of this type of devices. The sharing of best practices, the identification of the challenges related to the use of artisanal fishing gear in different regions and the assessment of the potential they represent in terms of fish valorisation are some of the objectives of the first International Conference. “This initiative has great importance for all the regions that use manual fishing with rod and, in particular, for the Azores, where fishermen have used this technique since the 1950s,” said Gui Menezes, on promoting this conference, and it assumes “a leading position in the world context in defense of this artisanal fishing technique”. The one-to-one International Conference, organized by the Government of the Azores in partnership with the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), a non-profit organization committed to developing and supporting tuna fisheries and supply chains that are responsible. In the last two years, IPNLF has strengthened its commitment to the region by working with its local members, including the Association of Fishermen of the Azores (FPA), the association of producers Pão-do-Mar and the association of tuna fishermen of the Azores (APASA) and the Program of Observers for Fisheries of the Azores (POPA). Those that have already confirmed their participation include a dozen countries besides Portugal, in particular, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Spain , Senegal, Cape Verde, Japan, the Maldives, Germany and Belgium.