Revenue from the tuna fishery sector in the Marshall Islands is expected to fall by millions in US dollars due to the coronavirus impact on vessels' activity and transshipments in the...
Fishing
PNA Transshipment Port Activity Reflects Shift In Fishing Areas
The largest global tuna supply from the WCPO is mainly transshipped in the PNA region but raw material operations between seiners and carriers plunged across all major ports in July. The...
Family Of Jailed US Captain Urges Govt To Intervene
The family of Michael Foy wants the US State Department to intervene on his behalf. Foy is the captain of the US longliner ‘Rebel Lady’ and has been imprisoned in the British Virgin Islands...
Greenpeace Report On Asian Tuna Rankings Misleading
A new report ranking a handful of tuna companies and canneries in Southeast Asia (SEA) has been published by Greenpeace, based on various issues ranging from sustainability to labor rights....
IATTC Scientists Push For Firm FAD Limits In EPO
The IATTC staff have recommended a cut in the number of floating-object sets for all purse seine vessels as a precautionary measure to prevent the EPO skipjack stock from becoming overfished....
General Santos Port Temporarily Shuts Down Due To COVID-19
A rise in COVID-19 cases among workers and fish traders operating in the General Santos City Fishport Complex has sparked a four-day shutdown of several portions of the harbor. This will mark...
Pirates Kidnap Another South Korean Seiner Crew
On August 28, a group of armed pirates attacked the Ghanaian-flagged pole-and-line vessel ‘AP 703’ located 200 km south of Port Lomé, Togo. They kidnapped the only two South Korean fishers in...
Seiner Helicopter Used In Evacuation After Storm
Due to tropical storm ‘Hernán’, 30 passengers of AeroMexico were stranded at the Playa de Oro airport in Manzanillo, Mexico. A helicopter from one of the purse seiners of the fishing and...
Australia’s First Tuna Seiner ‘MFV Tacoma’ In Virtual Show
Australia’s first tuna purse seiner boat, ‘MFV Tacoma’, which changed the course of commercial pelagic fishing in the country, will be displayed in virtual form via the 2020 Port Townsend...
FADs Direct Threat To EPO Skipjack Stock Health
In a report, scientists have said that skipjack and bigeye in the EPO are heavily impacted by purse seiners fishing on FADs. Catches for skipjack are at historically high levels while the fish...
Mexican Fishing Industry Wants Veda In The Gulf Of Mexico
The Veracruz tuna fishing sector in Mexico is once again asking the government to speed up and approve an agreement to establish a veda. According to Juan Ramón Gánem Vargas, a tuna...
Ghana Boat Owners Ask Again For Fee Reduction
The spat between the Ghana tuna industry and the country’s government regarding fishing licenses has not dissipated. The country’s tuna association (GTA) is once again asking for the fee to be...
EPO Seiners Bring In Record Catch, Despite COVID-19
Tuna catches in the EPO keep breaking records. IATTC figures for the first half of 2020 (H1) revealed the highest levels ever registered for this period. The peak can be almost entirely...
NGOs Tell Court Not To Let Big Three Off Class Action Hook
Three public advocacy groups have asked the Ninth Circuit to uphold the class certifications in the multi-district canned tuna price-fixing case against the US Big Three. They argue that class...
Should Countries Be Allowed To Expand Their EEZ?
In 1994, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) established that a country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) would extend for up to 200 nautical miles from the coasts of...
Atuna Readers Split On FAO Code On Tuna Cans
Atuna readers are divided on whether mentioning the FAO area code on tuna cans is useful for consumers, according to the results of our latest poll. A total of 44 percent of respondents...
Maldivian P+L Premium Raw Material Losing Value In Bangkok?
Pole-and-line skipjack has historically been traded at premium values compared to purse seiner catches. One-by-one fishers from the Maldives and Indonesia supply the vast majority to Bangkok,...
COVID-19 Guidelines Introduced For Entire Pacific Tuna Fishery
Since yesterday, there are new COVID-19 Operating Protocols for the Tuna Fishing Sector in the Pacific region. Until now, there were no common rules, often leading to discussions and...
Gabon Moors Albacora Seiner For Alleged Shark Bycatch
A tuna purse seiner belonging to the Spanish Albacora Group was taken to the port of Libreville by Gabonese authorities for allegedly catching shark. The vessel in question, ‘Albacora Caribe’...
Chinese Captain Arrested For Killing Four Men, Recorded On Video
A 43-year-old Chinese longliner captain linked to a six-year-old murder case has been arrested in Taipei, Taiwan, after entering the Port of Kaohsiung on Saturday. He is suspected of ordering...