In a country catching around 40,000 tons of tuna every year, it’s substantial that as much as 70 percent of the volume is destroyed in the post-harvest period. In Pakistan, the treatment of...
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Will New WCPFC Leadership Style Produce Results In Bali?
Nearly a year in the role, WCPFC Executive Director, Feleti Teo, appears to have brought a new style to the leadership, a method that some believe may result in this year’s annual meeting...
Cook Islanders Protest Against EU Seiner Deal
Environmentalists have already argued their case against the deal, and now residents of the Cook Islands are backing the protest, as they take to the streets to urge the government to stop the...
Habitantes Islas Cook Protestan Contra Acuerdo Cerco UE
Los activistas por el medio ambiente ya han presentado alegaciones en contra del acuerdo y ahora los habitantes de las Islas Cook están respaldando la protesta, tomando las calles para urgir...
FFA Determined To Get WCPFC To Act On FADs And Bigeye
With one of the only results of last year’s WCPFC meeting being frustration at the lack of progress made, the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is hoping for more action this year,...
The Most High Risk Job In The Tuna Industry?
There are important workers in the tuna fishing industry that seriously need increased safety, as the number of assaults and intimidations targeted at them grow. For that reason, WWF is urging...
¿El Trabajo Más Arriesgado De La Industria Atunera?
Hay importantes trabajadores en la industria pesquera de atún que necesitan seriamente una mayor seguridad, puesto que los asaltos e intimidaciones que sufren están aumentando. Es por esta...
Less Tuna Species Available For Major Tuna Brands?
Globally, over a third of tuna stocks are rated as overfished, and another 13 percent could be heading into the red soon, if stronger management is not implemented. That’s the story coming...
Fishing Days Too Expensive To Compete Say Processors
Philippine firms with tuna processing facilities on PNG soil complain they are unfairly treated by the PNG NFA access fees as part of the VDS. The vessel day rate set for 2016, they say, is...
“FAD-Free Alert Could Drive EU Buyers Away From PNG Product”
Francisco Tiu-Laurel, Frabelle CEO, says he was dumbfounded following a recent statement from the PNG NFA, which he says was clearly a manipulation of facts. He believes that the comments from...
“Alerta FAD-Free Podría Alejar Compradores De Los Productos De PNG”
Francisco Tiu-Laurel, Director de Frabelle, dice que se quedó estupefacto por la reciente declaración de la NFA de PNG, que según él era una clara manipulación de los hechos. Cree que los...
“US Seiner Fleet Can’t Survive Without Govt. Action”
In commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under its Advance Notice of a Proposed Rulemaking related to the treatment of the US tuna purse seine fleet, Ocean Global LLC and...
Skipjack Improves Japanese Catcher’s Profits, But For How Long?
This week, Japanese fishing and processing company Kyokuyo Co. Ltd, has announced that its consolidated operating income for the first six months to September has jumped by 56 percent year on...
Unreliable Supply Chains Leading To Fish Fraud
As a growing global food source, the demand for seafood is increasing across the world, but with a recent survey in Brussels suggesting that as many as one in three fish dishes could be...
Cadenas De Suministro Poco Fiables Dan Lugar Al Fraude De Pescado
Como una creciente fuente de alimentos global, la demanda de productos pesqueros está aumentando alrededor del mundo, con un estudio reciente en Bruselas sugiriendo que tanto como uno de cada...
Million Dollar Bumble Bee Loan For Supplier
After a USD 7 million loan from Bumble Bee Seafoods, work on a new cold storage facility in Levuka, Fiji, has finally got off the ground and construction has begun on a large scale, with the...
Officials Mockup Prosecution Of IUU Vessels
Getting ready to prosecute any vessels accused of fishing illegally in their EEZs, Pacific fisheries officials have stepped into courtroom roles this week, conducting role plays around IUU...
ICCAT: The Bluefin Results
ICCAT has been praised by WWF for keeping the bluefin quota and recovery plan unchanged as a result of talks during its recent annual meeting, which concluded in St Julian’s, Malta this week....
Riding A Bluefin With A Bottle Of Wine
It’s not every day you see someone riding on top of a huge bluefin tuna, let alone while sipping on wine in the process. That’s what Stephanie Osgood Choate appears to enjoy, as she has...
EU Slams NGO View On Atlantic Bigeye
Despite noting that not all of its ambitions were met, the European Union has said that on a whole it is satisfied with the results from the recently concluded ICCAT meeting, and says that it...
