Ecuador has been working relentlessly to improve its fisheries management and have its EU yellow card lifted (assigned in October 2019). The EU is set to carry out a new review within two...
Fishing
Bloom Accuses EU Fishing Organizations Of Influencing Fisheries Negotiation
French environmental NGO, BLOOM, and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) have formally complained to EU authorities over the appointment of Anne-France Mattlet in European...
OPAGAC Pushes ICCAT To Strictly Monitor Asian Fleets
OPAGAC has called out Asian fleets for fishing extensively in Atlantic waters. They raised this issue at the RFMO annual Commission meeting taking place in Portugal. The group representing...
Brazilian Canners To Rely More On Baitboats
Brazil's artisanal vessels were highly successful when it came to catching tuna but there was much less purse seine activity last year. Baitboats caught the most skipjack compared to any other...
Malta’s 2021 Tuna Farming Operating Profit Shows Improvement
Malta's National Statistics Office (NSO) released a study highlighting the country's total turnover for aquaculture and tuna farming industries amounting to EUR 224.9 million in 2021. Nearly...
World’s Largest Purse Seiner Sails Under Seychelles Flag
Purse seiners are extensively used for commercial fishing around the world. However, over the past couple of years, their numbers have decreased due to vessel de-listings by RFMOs. In a 2021...
French IO Seiners Drastically Reduced Yellowfin Free School Catches
The French purse seiner fleet was known for its free school yellowfin catch in the Indian Ocean. However, an overview of the fleet’s catches from 1981 to 2021 shows that since 2009, the...
How A Decade Of Management Measures Has Improved Global Tuna Stock Health
For the first time, a study has managed to show how measures implemented by resource-owning nations and RFMOs have improved global tuna stocks globally. Spanish research center AZTI in...
Grupomar’s Purse Seiner Catches Fire, No Casualties Reported
Purse seiner ‘Gijon’ owned by the Mexican tuna fishing company Grupomar caught fire at sea when returning to Manzanillo port. The reason was presumably a short circuit in the engine room area....
Spanish Girl Wants To Break Stereotypes And Become Tuna Boat Captain
A fisher’s life and sailing the high seas can be a tough job and is dominated by men. But 22-year-old Carlota Garcia Gonzalez is all set to ride high on her dreams. The Spanish youngster aims...
Reunion Islanders Rejoice Over Exceptional Albacore Season
There are reasons for fishers at Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, to cheer this season. Their albacore catch is in full swing with over 150 tons already hooked. Experts...
NGOs Urge ICCAT Members To Follow Scientific Advice On Bigeye & Yellowfin
The upcoming ICCAT annual meeting is taking place from November 14 to 21 and prior to the event, NGOs have made their positions known on several major issues that the RFMO needs to tackle....
New Seiner ‘Acila’ For Omani Tuna Fishery Launched
Spanish-built tuna purse seiner ‘Acila’ was launched on November 8 at the Zamakona Shipyard in Pasaia. It is the first of two vessels delivered to Al Wusta Fisheries Industries, an Omani...
Tuna Vessel Sank Due To Lack Of Surveillance And Safety Precautions
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSBC) released an investigation report on the sinking of the tuna vessel 'Arctic Fox II' on August 2020. The incident which caused two deaths...
Maldives Tuna Fisher Dies After Complaining Of Chest Pain
Thirty-three year-old Mohamed Akram was out fishing yellowfin when he complained of chest pain and shortness of breath, then died a few minutes later. Akram hails from Gulhi islands in the...
Seiners Back To Manta Port As IATTC Second Veda Begins
The second IATCC veda will begin on November 9. This will place even more pressure on the Manta trading price in the near future given the fishing fleets have been complaining about poor...
Bonito Del Norte Stopped The Olympic Fishing Itself
Although the few Bonito del Norte delivered at a Spanish fish market weighed 12 to 18 kg, double the average size in summer, they cannot fill the 1,400 M/T gap in the country’s albacore quota....
Bizarre Bites In Tuna And More Social Media Trends
Australian angler Jason Moyce - popularly known as Trapman Bermagui on social media - posted something interesting on October 29. The photo of a tuna with huge chunks of flesh bitten off its...
Study Reveals 100,000 Die Annually Across Global Fishing Sector
More than 100,000 fishing-related deaths occur every year, according to recent research from the Fish Safety Foundation (FSF). The study was commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trusts....
Madagascar Not Fully Happy With Signed EU Agreement
After four years of negotiation, Madagascar and the EU agreed on a new tuna fishing agreement. The main changes to the previous 2014 deal are the reduction in catch volume and the number of...