One of the world’s largest tuna processors, Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF), has reported a record high for this year’s third quarter, with a current net profit growth of 97.4 percent...
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Google Gets Involved In Combatting IUU
The world’s largest search engine corporation, Google, is in the process of launching a free online vessel tracking system, with which the public will be able to see fishing vessels on a map...
French President Meets Pacific Leaders On Regional Action
As the EU gets hot on building stronger ties with Pacific nations, French President, Francois Hollande, heads to New Caledonia to meet the region’s leaders. Pacific Island leaders and visiting...
EU Mission Evaluates PNG Progress On Removal Of Yellow Card
Just last week, an EU technical mission was launched in Port Moresby, discussing the progress that PNG had made in addressing the EU’s IUU fisheries concerns with the nation. As part of the...
GSP+ Could Bring Millions Of Extra Tuna Business To Philippines
Despite a last minute offensive move from Spanish MEPs to block the agreement, the Philippines’ tuna industry, backed by positive news from the European Commission, is still strongly confident...
King Oscar In Feud With Two BK Food Companies
King Oscar is currently undertaking a court case against two Polish food companies, BK Food Poland and BK Food Polska, which although claim to be separate entities, have been accused of...
Tuvaluan Candidate For WCPFC Director Post
A shortlisted candidate for the Director position of the WCPFC has been revealed as Feleti Teo, current Director of the Suva-based Pacific Islands Development Forum. The Tuvaluan has also...
Bluefin Included In Australian–Chinese FTA
A free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China, which would also include the trade for southern bluefin tuna, has been reported to likely be announced next week. Australian...
Tuna Torch Video Reaches 1.5 Million Hits
A Youtube video from life-hack fanatic, Grant Thompson, also known as ‘The King Of Random’ on his page, has reached over 1.5 million hits, displaying how a single tuna can, in just a few...
Is EPO Fishing Ban Doing The Trick On Bigeye?
From January 1st to June 1st this year, bigeye catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO), by both purse seine and pole and line vessels was recorded at a modest, yet significant 4.6 percent...
Taiwanese Fleet Fears To Be Banned from Indonesian Waters
Taiwan will be negotiating fishery management with Indonesia, in the hope that the Indonesian Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources does not end up banning Taiwanese vessels from the...
Philippines Regains Market Share In USA
After a significant decline from 2012 to 2013, Filipino tuna exporters have made a considerable recovery in the US canned tuna market so far this year, with shipments increasing a substantial...
AIS Systems A Success in Fijian MSC Fishing
A Fijian based fishing company, Sea Quest Fiji Ltd., has recently reported on the successes of installing Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) back in 2013. However, having received the AIS...
Can Fisheries Of A Red Card IUU Nation Be Certified Sustainable? What Did You Think?
IUU fishing – illegal operations said to rip the oceans of their resources, depleting fish stocks and destroying marine habitats. The EU regulation to deter such activity came into force in...
“Processors Should Be Pressured To Refuse FAD-Caught Tuna”
As part of a recently announced regulation by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), longline operators in Hawaii could benefit from the allowance of a bigeye quota transfer between US...
Research Shows Increased Demand For MSC Ecolabel
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has reported, on the basis of independent survey research undertaken on request of the certification body, that consumers have an “increasing appetite for...
Taiwan Criticized For Not Penalizing Shark Finning Longliners
Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency (TFA) has been accused by Greenpeace of failing to penalize two tuna longliners that were caught illegally harvesting and importing shark fins into Taiwan. In April,...
Minister Wants End To Foreign Fleets In Indonesian Waters
The Indonesian Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Susi Pudjiastuti, is calling for an end to the overcapacity of foreign vessels in the country’s EEZ, following the losses of the...
Investments In Preventing Fires & Deaths Aboard Tuna Vessels
The Ecuadorian Tuna Association (ATUNEC) has donated a total 19 special fire-fighting suits to the Manta Port Authorities (MPA) in order to tackle emergencies such as the recent burning of a...
PNG Fishing Days Reach USD 12,000 In Public Tender
Source: PNA Full text from press release below: The CEO of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) recognized Papua New Guinea’s National Fisheries Authority for conducting a successful...
