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EPO Purse Seine Fishery’s FAD Sets Rise
The EPO tropical tuna fishery is one of the largest in the world and a majority of purse seine operations utilize drifting FADs. The IATTC FAD working group meeting began on June 3 and will...
US To Descope Critical Climate Deep Ocean Sensors Amid El Niño
The US will soon be removing a vast system of deep-ocean sensors in the Pacific Ocean, raising alarm in the country’s scientific community. The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) announced...
Leading FAD Buoy Producers Start Sustainable Echosounder Buoy Stewardship
Marine Instruments, Satlink, and Zunibal recently signed a deal which they claimed is a “major step towards more responsible and collaborative dFAD management in tropical tuna fisheries.”...
Will Super El Niño Affect EPO Tuna Skipjack Catches?
Scientists are saying that this year the world will experience a super El Niño with higher than expected temperatures on land and sea. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a...
Poll: Should Tuna Loins Be Removed From EU Tariff Quotas?
The EU has entered into several free trade deals, the recent one with Mexico that includes pre-cooked loins. Negotiations are also taking place with Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines,...
FFA Highlights Key Lessons From 20 Years Of Tuna Fisheries Management
A newly released report charts the transformation of the Pacific tuna industry over the past two decades, highlighting how science-based management measures have strengthened the region's...
Pacifical CTO Urges Tuna Industry To Advance Traceability
The European Tuna Conference 2026 (ETC26) that concluded in April highlighted creating value through intelligent data exchange in the tuna industry. Julian Hanssen, Chief Technology Officer of...
Seychelles’ Shrinking Fleet Size Reflected in Lower Catches
The catches of Seychelles-flagged purse seiners and longliners for commercial tuna species fell in 2024. The number of vessels in the purse-seine fleet remained unchanged from 2023, while...
Readers: EPO Canners Should Return To Normal Capacity
Weak skipjack landings in the EPO since the start of the year are emerging as a concern for canners, even as fishing volumes have returned to more typical levels following the unusually strong...
IATTC Scientists To Review Movement of 100,000 FADs & Tuna Stock Health
IATTC scientists and experts will be gathering at the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting next week to discuss critical data about tuna stocks. There are also several other pre-events...
Global Bunker Rates Falling But WCPO Seiner Fleets Face High Costs
Israel pushing into Lebanon, the continued hostilities between the US and Iran, particularly in the Strait of Hormuz and stalled talks between the latter two parties have driven crude oil...
Biak Island’s Long-Forgotten Tuna Industry Gears Up For Revival
The Indonesian Island of Biak in Papua, once a major center for tuna processing and trade, is seeking to revive its long-dormant fisheries sector through a range of new initiatives, including...
Major Global Highlights May 2026
The global tuna world saw many ups and downs in May. The price of raw material in Bangkok eased, but trade in the Indian Ocean processing hub continued to remain volatile. The IOTC meeting...
South Indian Tuna Fishers Allege Harbor Works Moving At Snail’s Pace
Nearly a year after its inauguration, the Tiruvottiyur fishing harbor in Tamil Nadu remains non-operational despite an INR 2 billion (USD 21.08 million) government investment, leaving local...
Pevasa’s Seiners Cleared To Supply Tuna For Direct Human Consumption
Two purse seiners from Spanish fishing company Pevasa have completed the validation process of their freezing systems on the EU TRACES platform for brine freezing tuna at -18 °C. These boats...
How Predictive AI Gives Fishing Companies A Competitive Edge
Icelandic company GreenFish is redefining the future of commercial tuna fishing through advanced artificial intelligence (AI) designed tools for the sector. With its developed predictive...
Strong Yellowfin Catches Drive Mexico’s EPO Harvests
Higher yellowfin volumes boosted the Mexican purse seine fleet’s overall tuna catches in the first three months of 2026. These vessels already hauled in massive tonnages of yellowfin in 2025...
FCF Moves To MSC-Certify WCPO Supply Chain Vessels
Taiwanese tuna trader FCF is seeking two MSC certifications for vessels in its supply chain operating in the WCPO. The CAB, SCS Global Services, published the Announcement Comment Draft...
Bandar Abbas Tuna Port Hit In Renewed US Attacks On Iran
The US on Thursday launched fresh strikes near Bandar Abbas for the second time in less than a week, further escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global oil...