The WCPO seiner fleet caught a high share of tuna in PNA waters in November compared to the high seas. Consequently, with rising catches, there was substantially increased transshipment...
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Bangkok Skipjack Market In Year-End Lull
With the holiday period and the end of the year approaching, the Bangkok tuna hub has been experiencing very low trading activity for whole round frozen skipjack. Trading has hit a lull with...
Second Ecuadorian FAD Fishery Going Into MSC Assessment
This week the MSC newsletter carried the announcement of assessment of another Eastern Pacific purse seine skipjack and yellowfin tuna FAD fishery for 11 mostly small...
WCPFC Work On Tropical Tuna TRP To Progress In 2021
The WCPFC has a plan to come up with target reference points (TRPs) for tropical tuna in the Western Pacific Ocean but this will depend on the progress made next year. Yesterday, the...
Peruvian Tuna Fisher Drowns Tangled In Seiner’s Net
A fisherman died on board the Peruvian-flagged tuna purse seiner ‘Eten Diez’ on December 20. The tragic event occurred after the 47-year-old chief of deck, Gerald John Ibarburu...
Western Pacific Skipjack Catches Peaked In November
WCPO seiners hit the peak in catches in November despite the drop in overall effort. It was also an excellent month for fishing skipjack. After the WCPFC FAD ban came to a close at the end of...
Can Canned Tuna Market Sustain Gained 2020 Volume Next Year?
This year has proven to be good business for the tuna industry -- retail sales for canned products went through the roof early in the year with customers hoarding shelf-stable goods during the...
IATTC Agrees On Conservation Measures, Rolls Over For An Extra Year
IATTC members finally reached a consensus about the EPO's tropical tuna conservation management measures for 2021 during an extraordinary session that took place virtually yesterday. The RFMO...
Jiajia Food Abandons Tuna Fishery Takeover
On December 20, Chinese condiment producer JiaJia Food Group informed its stakeholders that the major asset restructuring which was needed to take over tuna company Dalian Ocean Fishing (DOF)...
Tuna Fisheries Work To Reduce Turtle Bycatch
Global tuna fisheries have many measures pertaining to stock management. However, RFMOs also need to keep a close eye on the environmental impacts of tuna fishing including that of bycatch....
Canada Wanted Reduced Tuna Quota In Western Atlantic
Canada would have preferred if the quota for Western Atlantic bluefin had been reduced for 2021. ICCAT recently rolled over the existing total allowable catch (TAC) of 2,350 M/T for the next...
Machine Learning Predicts Forced Labor Risk On Longliners
A new machine learning model shows that industrial vessels known to have crews that are subject to forced labor behave in systematically different ways than the rest of the global fishing...
US Revokes Visas Of Chinese Tuna Execs
As the era of the Trump administration is reaching its end, US officials continue to be adamant in condemning China’s alleged illegal trade activities. On this note, the State Department’s...
WTO Misses Deadline On Harmful Fisheries Subsidies
The World Trade Organization's (WTO) negotiators failed to meet the December 14 deadline to agree on rules to ban harmful fisheries subsidies as part of the UN's sustainable development...
Dongwon In Top 10 Most Active Firms In High Seas
A team of researchers has found that around two-thirds of the total detected fishing effort on the high seas is carried out by vessels belonging to 10 major corporations, several of them...
Philippines Bank To Aid Small-Scale Tuna Fishermen
BPI Foundation, the social development arm of the Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI), has set up the ‘Sulong Pinoy’ program to make Christmas this year more meaningful for local tuna...
Japan’s Plan To Offer USD 300 Mil Loan For Mauritius Oil Spill Under Fire
Japan is planning to offer USD 300 million in loans to Mauritius following a major oil spill off the island nation’s coast in July, which was caused by the Japanese freighter, ‘Wakashio’....
WCPFC Measure On Mobulid Ray Bycatch Starts In 2021
The WCPFC's Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) on mobulid rays by WCPO fisheries in both high seas and EEZs will come into force on January 1, 2021. It prohibits tuna vessels to retain,...
Spanish Seiners’ Crews To Return Home For Christmas
The part of the Spanish fleet grouped in OPAGAC is preparing the repatriation of 1,109 crew members working on its purse seiners in the Indian (IO), Atlantic (AO), and Pacific oceans. This is...
Trini The Tuna’s Annual Visit Received With Cheers
At L’Escala port in Spain, fishers and residents were joyful when the tuna they rescued five years ago remembered them and visited one more time. The bluefin, which they named Trini, has been...