The Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries wants to optimize the administrative work regarding transshipments for pelagic deep-sea fishing vessels including tuna, and has established the...
Fishing
Yellowfin Supply To BKK Stable Despite Reported Low Catches
Purse seine operators have reported that yellowfin catches in the WCPO have been significantly low during the first half of 2021. However, during the same period discharges of whole round...
Vaccinations In Three Major Asian Processing Nations Still Very Limited
As the tuna industry around the world has embedded COVID-19 measures into its protocols, vaccinations have been rolling out for months. Some producing and fishing nations have been making more...
Azores Tuna Fishers Take Part In Ghost Gear Removal Contest
Small-scale tuna fishers in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, are taking part in a ghost gear retrieval competition, the first of its kind in the world. The contest runs from June...
US Troll Albacore Catches Rise Sharply In 2020
The US longline fleet landed fewer catches in 2020 while the country’s trollers targeting albacore managed to increase their captures by nearly 120 percent year-on-year. According to the...
Is Sajo Group Chair Desperately Trying To Keep Control?
On August 10, Sajo Group’s Chairman, Joo Jin-Woo, lent six percent of his 14.24 percent equity in Sajo Industries equally to two other businesses outside the firm. Simultaneously, he called an...
June WCPO Carrier Volume To Bangkok And GenSan Up
Transshipments of whole round frozen tuna in the WCPO slightly recovered in June, while seiners’ overall catches were down that month. As operations kept moving eastwards, carrier activity in...
Scientists To Test More Biodegradable DFADs In WCPO
The world’s largest tuna fishery in the world is the WCPO and so it is unsurprising that it has the highest number of drifting FADs (dFADs) deployed or redeployed yearly. Several scientists...
French Court Rules In Favor Of Fairer Tuna Allocation To Small-Scale Fishers
After four years, an administrative court in Southern France has ruled that the country’s small-scale fishers deserve a fairer allocation for their tuna quotas. The Professional Union of Small...
Japan’s Tuna Sector Fighting Negative Image To Recruit Young Crew
Japan’s fisheries are using social media to attract more young people to tuna fishing companies. Many of them view distant water tuna fishing jobs as hard, dirty, and dangerous. Working on...
Kiribati & Eastern Zones Best Skipjack Catches In June
Captains in the WCPO continued to favor waters in the Eastern zone within the PNA region during June, particularly Kiribati's EEZ, one of the most tuna-rich areas...
Mexico In NOAA’s List Of IUU Fishing Countries
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has called out seven nations for their engagement in IUU fishing activities and 29 countries for having insufficient regulatory...
Chinese Company Spends USD 54 Mil On Two New Seiners
On August 11, Chinese Shangdong Zhonglu Oceanic Fisheries signed a contract with local shipyard Mawei Shipbuilding to build two purse seiners to expand its WCPO tuna fleet and...
Earliest Closure Ever For Spanish Albacore Season
Spanish vessels will have to stop fishing for Atlantic albacore (bonito del norte) as of midnight Sunday, as their total allocated quota of 17,397 M/T is estimated to have been reached....
EPO Shows Increase In FAD-Caught Yellowfin But Fewer Large Ones
Tuna catches for the two largest fleets in the EPO have not been as successful as they were last year. Both the Ecuadorians and the Mexicans caught less fish during the first half of 2021...
US Coast Guard Vessel Finds Multiple Violations In Albacore Fishery
The US Coast Guard cutter vessel ‘Alert’ completed a 60-day law enforcement patrol last week. The two-month initiative focused on albacore tuna fishing within the US EEZ off the coasts of...
Brazil State Signs Deal To Analyze Quality Of Tuna In Its Waters
Almost all tuna processing facilities in Brazil are in the coastal state of Caerá. The local government has entered a partnership with Nutec to analyze the quality of the tuna in the waters...
Pacific Ministers Say All Flag States Need To Prioritize Fishers Vaccination
During the 18th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial (FFCMin18), Pacific Ministers said that all countries, including flag states operating fishing vessels and FFA members, should prioritize...
Boat Owner Firmly Denies US CBP Forced Labor Allegations
The owner of the longliner that was recently blacklisted by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for allegedly enforcing forced labor practices onboard has firmly denied all allegations....
Chinese DFAD Fisheries In Micronesia MSC Certified Without Objections
Two Chinese companies operating in the EEZ of the PNA nation of Micronesia (FSM) have been officially awarded the MSC certification without any objection. This includes...