Vietnam is tightening measures to curb IUU fishing by its tuna fishermen. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the government to work closely with the coastal cities to prevent its...
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RD Fishing Still Moored After A Year, Origin Tuna Exports Nosedives
It has been a year and the RD Fishing fleet is still not fishing, which has seriously impacted raw material supply to its canneries, especially its Philbest cannery in the Philippines....
New Zealand Court Puts US Seiner For Sale
A US tuna purse seiner that collided with another boat four years ago in 2019 has been put up for sale by a New Zealand court. ‘Koorale,’ which is currently at Port Nelson, officially stopped...
EPO Fleets Expanded Skipjack Catches In Q3 Despite Veda
The EPO purse seining fleet largely increased their skipjack catches from July to early September with the Ecuadorian and US fleets sharply hiking their numbers. This is inspite of the veda...
Canada And UK Step Up To Fight IUU Fishing In The Pacific
Canada and the UK recently announced that they will join in the fight against illegal fishing in the tuna-rich Pacific Ocean. The nations are lending support to the Joint Analytical Cell...
Substantial Lower Skipjack Catches Signal Drop In Origin Tuna Exports
In the first six months of the year, there was a major drop in the tuna catches in the Philippines. This impacts the supply of origin tuna needed by the country’s processors to export at zero...
Homeless Man Lives On Tuna And Other Social Media Trends
Life is getting harder for many who are struggling to make ends meet and canned tuna proves to be an affordable protein for such people. TikToker NomadicRyan revealed how he lives off tuna...
Pacific Islands Must Flex Muscle Against Chinese Fleet
The Chinese have been growing their canned tuna market over the years and competing with Ecuador and Thailand, the largest tuna producing nations in the world. A representative from the...
Japanese Purse Seiner Rescues Infants And Women From The Pacific Ocean
Japanese purse seiner 'Wakaba Maru No. 7' rescued 14 people on a boat adrift 160 km off Papua New Guinea (PNG) in August. The crew of the vessel, owned by Kyokuyo Susan Co. Ltd., spotted the...
WCPFC Members Discuss Bigeye Catch And High Seas Fishing Limit
Anticipating the annual Commission meeting in December, WCPFC organizes tropical tuna workshops for stakeholders in the industry. The third one was recently held at the RFMO’s headquarters in...
Rising Costs To Squeeze Taiwan’s Seiner Sector In Near Future
The Taiwanese purse seine fleet is crucial for the global tuna industry, highlighted Chris Tsu, General Manager for Taiwan and Asia Trading for Tri Marine. Speaking at the Vigo conference. He...
Wofco Buys Sapmer’s ‘Manapany’ Purse Seiner
The Spanish Worldwide Fishing Company (Wofco) acquired a 90-meter purse seiner that was renamed ‘Ría De Aldán’. Based on its IMO number 9476238, this must be the ‘Manapany’ owned by French...
Hawaii Longliners Can Continue Sunset Fishing Bycatch Reducing Experiment
Hawaii shallow-set longline fishery have been given more time to evaluate the effect of tuna fishing one hour before and one hour after local sunset to reduce seabird bycatch. The US National...
SKJ1.8:BKK End Of Bull Market After The FAD Ban?
After months of peak levels for skipjack raw material, trade in the Bangkok processing hub seems to have rekindled, a reflection of price drop seen historically during September to October....
China Gets Two More Tuna Longliners For The Atlantic Ocean
The Chinese state-owned company Sino-Ocean Co., Ltd. has received two tuna longliners that were built by Dalian Liaoning Shipyard. The 52-meter-long vessels, ‘Jinfeng 2’ and ‘Jingfeng 4’ will...
E-Monitoring Has Come A Long Way But Has Hurdles To Overcome
Electronic Monitoring (EM) on tuna vessels in the Pacific Ocean began nine years ago. It faced several challenges and is up for improvement. Leontine Baje, Fisheries Advisor, at the...
Increasing MGO Fuel Cost Starts Biting Seiner Operators Again
Global oil prices fell slightly on Wednesday morning as the market anticipated the outcome of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) and allies ministerial meeting...
EU Seiners Can Continue Tuna Fishing In Kiribati With New Fisheries Deal
On Monday, the European Commission announced that the EU and Kiribati renewed a sustainable fishing partnership for a duration of five years. Under this agreement, four EU purse seiners can...
Costa Rican Officials Use VR For Training To Combat IUU Crimes
A group of organizations have come together to curb IUU fishing in Costa Rican waters. Over 30 environmental and organized crime judges, investigators, and representatives from various...
Major Global Tuna Highlights September 2023
The US signed the USD 600 million Pacific Tuna Treaty to strengthen the partnership with the Pacific Islands. Two NGOs made their presence felt in the tuna business and attacked MSC and WCPFC...