The Brazilian Navy has rescued six fishermen after their tuna vessel was hit by a severe cyclone Friday night. The search is on for two crew members of the boat that sank off the coast of...
Fishing
Fear Of Monopolies Hinder India’s High Seas Fishing Ambitions
A group of Indian fishermen has demanded the government take quick action against the rising number of foreign vessels that are rampantly fishing tuna and other seafood in India's waters. They...
Salary Conflict Of African Crew On EU Seiners Not Yet Resolved
In the first week of June, the African crew members of French and Spanish purse seiners went on a four-day strike for higher wages. Three unions representing the Senegalese and Ivorian fishers...
NOAA Ignores NGOs Demand To Ban Ecuadorian Yellowfin, Grants Market Access
The Ecuadorian tuna sector has reasons to rejoice as the US has given permission to continue the import of its yellowfin products. This is despite a group of US NGOs, after studies, concluding...
FiTI Lauds Mauritanian Efforts Towards Transparency In Tuna Fisheries
The International Board of the Fisheries Transparent Initiative (FiTI) recently concluded that Mauritania, in whose EEZ EU seiners catch large amounts of tuna, has made meaningful progress in...
NGOs: US Fails To Downgrade Taiwan In TIP Report
Taiwan has once again gained a top position in the US Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report published on June 15. This has raised the ire of several US and Asian NGOs which had been calling for...
Bigeye Longline Catch Limits Set For US Pacific Territories
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has allocated bigeye catch limits to longliners in US Pacific territories. The council recommended setting the 2023 catch limits at 2,000 M/T in...
Indian Ocean Bigeye Associate Longest With DFADs
Using acoustic telemetry, scientists have calculated the associative behavior of tagged skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye with drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) in two regions of the...
Italian Police Search In The Dark As Bluefins Are Dumped On Roadsides
The rising number of discarded bluefins on Italian roadsides is putting officials in a tight spot. The tuna, likely from illegal catches and thrown away by perpetrators while trying to escape...
Green Light For Mauritius’ Multi-Million Dollar Tuna Deal With EU
The European Parliament (EP) is set to approve a new fisheries agreement with Mauritius that allows its fleet to fish in Mauritian waters. A majority of members of the EP voted in favor of the...
NIRSA Equips Old Seiner With State-Of-The-Art Bearings
The 1973-built purse seiner ‘El Marquez’ fishing for the vertically-integrated Ecuadorian company, NIRSA, was recently upgraded. It was equipped with polymer propeller shaft seals and...
Fisheries Minister Claims Indonesia Could Become Biggest Tuna Farming Country
Indonesia has high hopes for its aquaculture industry. Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, Minister of Maritime and Fisheries, underlined that it has the potential to become the world’s largest...
Restaurant Sues Boy For Sushi Terrorism And Other Social Media Trends
Sushi terrorism is not without consequences. A Japanese teenager's video of him licking a soy sauce bottle and a teacup before putting it back on the belt of a sushi outlet went viral. The...
Despite Low Fuel Price, WCPO Seiners Feeling Impact Of Overheads
Low international crude oil prices have reduced the value of marine fuel for purse seiners. However, vessel operators are burdened by several overhead costs that have cut into their profits....
Ocean Family Signs Deal To Expand WCPO Seiner Fleet
Chinese fishing company Zhejiang Ocean Family Co. Ltd. and Mawei Shipbuilding closed a deal to build a 76-meter-long purse seiner to sail in the Western Central Pacific Ocean. In 2013, the...
Indonesian Tuna Fishermen Rescued After Eight Days At Sea
Two artisanal fishermen from a village near Bima city were rescued off the coast of South Sulawesi Islands after being declared missing for eight days. The 62-year-old Mahmudi and 56-year-old...
African Crew Strike Cripples French And Spanish Seiners Operations
The operations of French and Spanish seiners fishing in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were hit by a strike of Senegal and Ivory Coast crew members on June 5. Two Unions had called for the...
WCPO MSC Assessment Hints Close Ties Between Sajo Fisheries And Kiribati
The second MSC certification for Itochu Corporation is inching closer to achievement. The TTKV (Chinese Taipei, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu) WCPO skipjack and yellowfin purse seine fishery's...
52-Day Tuna Gillnet Ban Effect In Southern India Disputed
The annual 52-day fishing ban has begun in the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala. Commercial vessels like gillnetters and trollers, used for catching tuna, are not allowed to fish during...
Filipino MSC Fishers Fear VMS Suspensions Affect EU Exports
Tuna fishers in the Philippines are at loggerheads with one another and officials over the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 266, which implements vessel monitoring measures (VMM). In...