The Costa Rican government’s recent move to reverse its decision to auction tuna fishing licenses has caused a great uproar among the country’s fishermen. The bidding was supposed to be a...
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Ecuadorian Police Seizes Drugs From Tuna Containers
In one of the ports in Guayaquil, Ecuadorian authorities seized about 3.4 tons of cocaine from four containers with commodities such as canned tuna, palm oil, and scrap metal that were heading...
Libyan Govt Seeks Better Regulations For Tuna Fishing
The Libyan government is working to better regulate the nation's tuna exports in 2020. On February 11, the Ministry of Economy and Trade debated on reduced terms for granting fishing and...
Bumble Bee And FCF Launch Longline Albacore FIP In Indian Ocean
Bumble Bee Foods and its parent company FCF, along with non-profit Ocean Outcomes have launched a new longline tuna fishery improvement project (FIP) in the Indian Ocean for...
What Will The Tuna Industry’s Future Be In 2025?
The end debate of the Americas Tuna Conference in Panama saw a lively discussion centered around the topic of where the tuna industry will be heading and what its future in 2025 will be like....
Plaintiffs Ask Judge Not To Halt Price-Fixing MDL Against US Big Three
Various groups of buyers suing the Big Three over price-fixing shelf-stable tuna have appealed to a US district court judge not to halt the multi-district class action lawsuit (MDL) they had...
US Tuna Seiner Sues Competitor In Millions For Collision
A tuna purse seiner that was struck by a fellow fishing vessel is suing the latter claiming that the collision was the result of the boat trying to damage or to intimidate it off of the fish...
Compartmentalization No Longer Accepted By MSC
A new fisheries certification process (FCP) in which the possibility for a vessel to catch both MSC certified and non-certified catch using different practices is no longer an option,...
Vanuatu Provides New Safety Equipment For Observers And Fishers
To improve the safety of fishermen and observers alike, the Department of Fisheries of Vanuatu has launched a comprehensive number of safety devices to be distributed this year. In a launch...
Man Picked-Up From Seiner During Storm Ciara
Last Sunday, in the midst of the Ciara storm, which has been hitting Europe for the past week, the French rescue boat ‘Ar Beg’ from SNSM Trévignon-Concarneau sailed out to pick-up a crew...
INCOPESCA Proposes Amendments To Manage Tuna Fishing In Costa Rica
The Costa Rican fisheries institute has proposed amendments to several articles and an introduction of a new article in the country’s tuna fishing regulations in order to boost the industry...
African Nations Collaborate With EU To Launch Pilot Observer Program
An intergovernmental organization comprising 22 African coastal countries from Morocco to Namibia has announced that it will launch a pilot project for a regional onboard observer program....
Tri Marine International MD To Chair Bangkok Tuna2020
Phil Roberts, the Managing Director of Tri Marine International, will chair the global TUNA2020 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, this year. The INFOFISH World Tuna Trade Conference and...
Aussie Authorities Conduct Operation On Seiners Fishing Southern Bluefin
Recently, the Australian authorities conducted a joint ‘at sea’ operation to inspect fishing operators involved in the harvest and farming of southern bluefin tuna. The operation was carried...
Low Supply To Seychelles Drives Up Skipjack Price
The fact that the EU-Seychelles Fishery Partnership Agreement is not yet in force has led to an increase in the Seychelles skipjack price as there is less supply coming to the market and the...
Japan & FAO Hold Workshop With Pacific Islands To Boost Tuna Fisheries
A regional project workshop was held in Nadi, Fiji on the first week of February to help boost Pacific coastal and small tuna fisheries. The workshop was over a three-year project that is...
Americas Tuna Conference 2020 Concludes Today In Panama
The 3rd Americas Tuna Conference concluded today after two days of presentations and debates with key figures in the tuna business, ranging from boat owners and processing companies...
Over 20% Of All Fishery Progress FIPs Tackle Tuna
The Americas Tuna Conference continues today in Panama City, its topics discussing the re-shuffling of the global tuna industry. During the first session today, two NGOs talked about...
EU’s IUU Actions Led By Sustainability Concerns
Sustainability is not a policy on its own, but it comes with others, said Chris Hoornaert, Head of Mission of the EU Delegation to Panama, during the Americas Tuna Conference in Panama. ...
Study: PNA Market-Based Approach Can Serve As Example For Marine Conservation
A new study using a modeling system has looked into Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and how large-scale marine conservation can be incentivized by fisheries management schemes such as PNA’s...
