Authors: Robert Ovetz Short Abstract: Little is known about the impact of longline fishing on local food security, employment, cultural belief systems and traditions, revenue generation...
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Power Europe: EU and the illegal, unreported and unregulated tuna fisheries regulation in the West and Central Pacific Ocean
Authors: Alice Miller, Simon Bush, Arthur Mol Short Abstract: The EU has influenced IUU tuna fishing in the Pacific through both its market and normative power, essentially extending its...
Distributing the bigeye conservation burden in the western and central pacific fisheries
Authors: Quentin Hanich Short Abstract: The negotiation over the scope and application of a conservation measure is a negotiation over how the burden of conservation is distributed....
Shifting Tides in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery: The Political Economy of Regulation and Industry Responses
Authors: Elizabeth Havice, Liam Campling Short Abstract: Pacific Island Countries have been unable to prevent resource decline or to capture economic development potential from their...
Governance of tuna industries: The key to economic viability and sustainability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Authors: Kate Barclay Short Abstract: The economies of many Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) rely heavily on tuna industries. This paper studies the governance of these industries,...
Budget Cuts Leave Spanish Sailors Out Of Touch
Crew members aboard Spanish fishing vessels will now have to do without radio broadcasts as an unexpected decision from the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) is set to eliminate...
ISSF Promotes Total WCPFC Tuna Closure
Is a total closure of the WCPFC tuna fishery the only way to control the decline of bigeye tuna stocks in the region? It seems that ISSF believes it could be the most simple. As the Commission...
Atlantic Tuna Nations And ISSF Start Cooperation
A partnership based on the promotion of sustainable tuna fishing off the West African coasts has been sealed between the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) and the...
Operation To Protect Seiners Against Pirates Extended
This weekend, the European Union decided to extend its counter-piracy program, ‘Operation Atalanta’, off the coast of Somalia by a further two years. The operations, which focus on deterring,...
“Unpaid” Tuna Worker Wages Were Paid Twice
A workers’ union in Colombia has been accused by Seatech International, a Latin American canned tuna processing firm, for “misleading and misinforming” the public. Representing some of...
Loopholes Found In Korea’s Distant Fisheries Act
The Korean government is under significant pressure as loopholes are identified in the nation’s Distant Water Fisheries Act. The country is now being urged to clean up the management of...
Feds Say Police Tuna Sandwich Not According To Regulation
A small tuna sandwich maker in the US that supplies to police stations is undergoing pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which believes the company’s tuna sandwiches are not...
“How Can We Trust The WCPFC If It Fails On Bigeye?”
If the WCPFC can’t get it right on bigeye, then how can we trust that the rest of the WCPO tuna fishery can be well managed? According to an ISSF and WWF blogpost, that’s what many in the...
Do Acoustic Tags Turn Tunas Into A ‘Happy Meal’?
Recent press has pointed towards the possibility of acoustic tagged tunas becoming another fish’s meal, because they are bleeping or flashing and attracting attention. The theory put forward...
EU Parliament GSP+ Vote On Philippines Planned Dec 15th-18th
The Philippine tuna industry sustains high hopes that the European Parliament will give a majority vote in favor for the Asian nation to secure GSP+; a status that will hand the country a zero...
Why Sri Lanka Had To Attract Foreign Fleet Operators
Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister believes that the arrival of large foreign vessels is the crux of the problems with the EU, and ultimately led to the nation’s red card on IUU, a sanction that...
High Grade Biodegradable Purse Seine Nets – Is It Possible?
An environmentally improved purse seine net lined with a biodegradable additive and radio frequency identification chips has been developed in the hope of reducing ‘ghost fishing’. Ghost...
A Machine That Measures The Freshness Of Tuna?
A company in the Netherlands has developed the world’s first ever machine capable of estimating the freshness of tuna; something the tuna industry has never seen and could possibly make good...
Why Tuna Is Economically So Important To Mexico…
With total national tuna catch hitting up to 150,000 tons each year, tuna is a vitally important resource for Mexico, and takes second place for total fish production. The country’s 17th...
Do You Think FADs Can Be Ecological? How Our Readers Judged
In the last few months, NGOs have again put serious pressure on European tuna purse seiner fleets and the brands they supply to, in particular regarding the use of FADs and the bycatch issues...
