“Better insight into the beneficial ownership of vessels involved in transshipment and their operational patterns could lead to more effective management,” stated a new research paper on...
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Is Azores Pole and Line Fleet In Dire Straits?
Azores pole-and-line fishers in Portugal have been hard hit by bigeye quota, purse seine fishing, and lower prices for their catches. The documentary titled ‘Is this the end of Portugal’s tuna...
Euphoria Over Improved IO Catches Overshadowed By Low Price
Purse seine skipjack catches have improved in the Indian Ocean since the end of October. This is good news for fleets and canneries in the region after months of low volumes. However, the fish...
EU Annual Economic Report Sees Improvement For Tuna Fleet
The EU fleet showed a substantial improvement in economic performance in tuna fishing in 2022 with predicted rising gross profits for 2023 and 2024, but not in all oceans. The European...
Thai Pet Food Producers Experienced Amazing Sales In Q3
Thai pet food producers have been raking in a lot of money this year as their exports continued to rise. Up to the third quarter of 2024, they shipped 68 percent more to major markets...
US Dollar And Euro Approach Parity By A Hair’s Breadth
Since Donald Trump was elected as the new President of the United States on November 6, the dollar began to strengthen against the euro nearing parity. This makes the tuna product imports for...
Will WCPFC Decide On Electronic Monitoring At Upcoming Annual Meeting?
The WCPFC 21st annual meeting is around the corner. There are numerous proposals on the table and this year, improving electronic monitoring (EM) standards on longliners from 2025 is on the...
Madeira Tuna Fishers Demand Removal Of Fishing Ban In MPA Region
Fish producers' organization, Coopescamadeira, is urging the government of Madeira to lift the ban on catching tuna beyond two miles in the Selvagens Islands, a marine protected area (MPA)....
Why Luthi Only Offers Leasing Model For Tuna Machines
Luthi Machinery only offers its tuna filling machines in a lease model to global processors for a reason. It pays off because more than 40 percent of all fillers in the world are Luthi, said...
ISSF Report Shows Meager Improvement In Conservation Measures By Companies
The recently published ‘Annual Conservation Measures and Proactive Vessel Register Compliant Report’ showed that companies have improved 0.15 percent from the June 2024 report. The audit of...
Maldivian Households To Get Tuna Cans For Ramadan
The Maldivian government will give all households a box of tuna cans for Ramadan next year. President Mohamad Muizzu who announced this earlier this week has instructed officials from the...
EU High Demand For Yellowfin Whole Rounds Boosted H1 Imports
EU importers' demand for whole-round frozen tuna grew in the first half of the year. There was already a volume hike in Q1 2024 and this momentum continued into the second quarter of this...
WCPFC Director Reports Progress & Future Priorities
The members of the Commission looking after the world’s largest tuna fishery are set to meet on November 28. Rhea Moss-Christian, Executive Director, said in her annual report that the WCPFC...
EU Inks Deal For Tuna Fishing In Ivory Coast EEZ
The EU and Ivory Coast renewed their fishing partnership agreement in Abidjan yesterday for the 2024-2028 period. This deal would allow 32 EU vessels, including 25 seiners and 7 longliners, to...
Readers Predicted ICCAT Will Adopt Skipjack Harvest Strategy
The annual ICCAT meeting concluded last week with agreements on the much-anticipated harvest strategy, also known as management procedure, for western skipjack. The Scientific Committee report...
Spanish Govt And Tuna Association Work Together On National Food Strategy
The Spanish government has begun to work on a National Food Strategy (NFS). The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, met representatives from the various national food...
Thai Union North America CEO Steps Down
Thai Union announced that Bryan Rosenberg has stepped down as the CEO of Thai Union North America, effective from January 1, 2025. Rosenberg has been spearheading Chicken of the Sea...
Tuna Sustainability And Labor Rights Priorities On World Fisheries Day
World Fisheries Day is celebrated on November 21 annually. It highlights the importance of sustainable tuna and other fish stocks, strengthening human rights for small-scale fishing...
Taiwan Tuna Longline Association Launches Pacific FIP
The Taiwan Tuna Longline Association (TTLA) and international NGO Ocean Outcomes have announced the launch of their joint Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) for 41 TTLA vessels. Both...
Spanish Processors’ Canned Tuna Exports In H1 Remained Strong
The export of canned tuna from the EU increased in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2023 despite a slight drop in the tonnage from some of the suppliers. Spanish...
