The highlight of Port Lincoln’s annual ‘Tunarama’ festival is the tuna tossing world championships; however this year, coverage of the event reached as far wide as Japan, when one of the...
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NGOs All Pushing In Same Direction At WCPFC
The WCPFC won’t be short on hot topics to discuss as it meets for its 11th regular session, starting Monday. According to a number of industry and environmental NGOs: PEW, GP, WWF and...
95% Of S-Australian Sardines To Fatten Bluefin
The Australian bluefin tuna industry’s most important raw material, sardine, is set to increase quota, as a 10 year management plan has been revised. Currently, 95 percent of what is caught...
Rare British Tuna Dissected In Front Of An Audience
Researchers at the University of Exeter, in the UK, have performed the dissection of a bluefin tuna in front of a live audience; something very uncommon for Britons. The UK doesn’t fish for...
US Fleet Might Expand Through Take Overs And Reflagging
The US tuna fleet could see significant growth, as smaller fishing companies struggle to compete in the WCPO. Speculation is rife that the US fleet could expand through takeovers and...
EU Loins Importers Upbeat On Outlook For Sri Lanka
It was expected to be a significant blow to EU chilled yellowfin importers, when just last month, Sri Lanka was handed a red card on IUU, with trade bans set to come into force in January...
Country Delegations To Tour American Samoa Canneries – South Pacific Tuna Hub
Pacific island nation delegations that are set to attend the upcoming WCPFC meeting, will be making a trip to American Samoa for an ‘open house’. On Friday, the American Samoan government, in...
Tuna Load Confiscated From Longliner With Purse Seine Net
A haul full of allegedly illegal purse seine netting was recently seized in Natal, Brazil, by the Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA). The gear was used by a...
Rare White Southern Bluefin Sold In Japan
Last weekend a rare white pale bluefin was sold on auction in Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market, much to the amazement of buyers. The waxy looking tuna is a southern bluefin (thunnus maccoyii) with...
Late Canaries Tuna Vessels Return ‘Empty Handed’
A total of 37 Canary Islands fishing vessels returned with hands ‘virtually empty’ from Moroccan waters, claiming that the licenses they were issued to fish there were awarded too late in the...
Maldives Penalizes Longliner For Intrusion
A Maldivian longline vessel has been fined by the authorities for setting its line not only within the economic boundaries, where it is illegal to use this gear, but also against longlining...
PNG Confident In Not Getting An EU Red Card
Confidence is high among the PNG officials, that current IUU sanctions will not be intensified by the EU, and the nation will not receive a red card. How can they be so sure? According to The...
Atuna & BESTTuna Partner In New Research Section
We’re launching a new, highly informative, highly detailed research section to the atuna.com website, accessible to all. The Research Reports hub, fully powered by BESTTuna, will provide a...
Manta Rays: How Can Tuna Fisheries Help Reduce Mortality?
Several mobula rays and manta rays are listed under ‘vulnerable’ or ‘endangered’ on the IUCN red list, which means that they are the route towards extinction. Mantatrust.orgsays there are a...
Potential Mexican MSC Yellowfin Certification Covers USD 300 Million
As five companies that represent more than 95 percent of the Mexican yellowfin and skipjack fishery enter into full MSC assessment, a value has been put on the catch that could potentially...
40 EU Vessels Deal With Guinea Bissau Highly Paid?
In a three year agreement to allow up to 40 EU vessels to operate in the EEZ of Guinea Bissau, the European Union, in return, will be contributing EUR 9.2 million (USD 11.5 million) annually...
Umami Set To Sell Bluefin Farms To Japanese Firm
A publicly-traded bluefin farming company based in the US, Umami Sustainable Seafood, will be selling its Croatia based tuna farming asset, Kali Tuna, to a Japanese fisheries service company,...
PMIZ Mega Tuna Industrial Zone Project To Be Revived
Plans for the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) project for PNG could be back on track, as the final designs are set to go before the National Executive Council by next March. In fact, the...
Articulating upgrading: Island developing states and canned tuna production
Authors: Elizabeth Havice, Liam Campling Short Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to situate the dis/articulations project in debates and policy proposals that identify ‘upgrading’...
Impacts of tuna industries on coastal communities in Pacific Island countries
Authors: Kate Barclay Short Abstract: Tuna fishing and processing industries have brought both a range of economic development and cultural contact opportunities to coastal communities in...
