The first round of negotiations for the renewal of the EU-Cook Islands fisheries agreement took place on July 16. Both parties agreed to extend the current protocol which is set to expire on...
Fishing
Fewer Spanish WCPO Catches Reaching Manta
Catches for Spanish-flagged tuna purse seiners in the WCPO have continuously declined for three years in a row due to fewer vessels. Thus, less raw material is being landed in Manta from these...
Will COVID-19 Result In Fewer Tuna Catches In 2020?
The coronavirus pandemic has recently affected tuna seiners operating in the Indian and Eastern Pacific Oceans with infection among the crews. Consequently, the catches of fleets in these...
Teen Fishers Reel In Tuna Over 300kg
Last week, three American teenagers spent seven long hours battling a tuna and successfully landed the 700-pound behemoth (318 kilograms) off the coast of Maine. It was nearly three meters...
Readers: No Observer Coverage Will Tempt Vessels To Break Rules
The results of the latest Atuna poll showed that half of our readers do not agree with the professionals in the tuna industry, who are saying that vessels will adhere to the FAD ban rule in...
Taiwan Sends Vessel To Inspect Own WCPO Fleet
The Taiwanese vessel ‘Hsun Hu No. 9’ returned on Sunday to Kaohsiung Port after over a month of patrolling the high seas in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) to combat IUU fishing....
Dropping Number Of Fisheries Workers In The EU
As the global fisheries and aquaculture sectors have grown over the years, so has the number of people employed in it. According to UN figures, in nearly the 25 years since 1995, it has...
Indian Fishermen Threaten Suicide Over Seiner Net Ban
Fishermen in the coastal communities of the State of Tamil Nadu in South India have staged protests this week demanding that authorities withdraw the ban on the use of purse seine nets. The...
Indonesia Taking Action Against Chinese Abuses
Indonesian authorities have started to take action on human rights violations at sea occurring on board Chinese vessels. This week, a squid trawler captain, Song Chuanyun, was taken into...
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Global Tuna Catch Volume?
News over the last two months about infections among the crew on board seiners around the world, especially in the Indian Ocean (IO) and the EPO, has made the tuna sector very jittery....
IOTC’s Budget Riddled With Outstanding Contributions
The newly released IOTC 2020 mid-term financial report states that the situation with outstanding contributions from member states is not sustainable. Approximately 71 percent of the 2020...
Fiji Tuna Industry In Need Of Govt Assistance
In Fiji, COVID-19 has heavily impacted canned tuna production and this situation is not so different in its fresh fish sector. Sealand Fish Limited and Fiji Fish Marketing Group Limited have...
FIPs Are Concerned Over Costs On Implementing Human Rights Policy
Despite FIPs supporting human rights at sea, they are also concerned about the costs of implementing a social policy that will include this, according to global platform for fishery...
Entire WCPFC FAD Ban Without Observers?
There is a high chance that observers might not resume work during the ongoing WCPFC FAD ban as the PNA is intending to extend their temporary suspension in the WCPO region by another three...
Spanish Fisheries Exec & Family Linked To Drug Trafficking
Earlier this week, a Spanish investigation aiming to dismantle the networks smuggling hashish into the Strait of Gibraltar led to the arrest of fisheries executive, Pedro Maza. Until that...
Good Catches Leading To Early Closure Of Spanish Albacore Fishery
Early this week, the largest bulk of bonito del norte, albacore, of the current fishing season was offloaded in the port of Avilés, Spain. This cargo comprises 40 percent of the quota for this...
Tagging Program Shows Extensive Tuna Migration Pattern
The ICCAT Atlantic Ocean Tropical Tuna Tagging Programme (AOTTP) has been a great success with the RFMO revealing that it has not only recovered more than 120,000 tropical tuna tags but...
Fisheries Observers Need To Look For New Jobs?
The global pandemic and lockdowns are causing a big challenge to fisheries observers’ employment. These people’s work is offered on a trip by trip contract basis but now that most of them have...
Greenpeace Involves UN In Observer’s Death Probe
After the alleged murder of a Kiribati observer on board a Taiwanese purse seiner, Greenpeace USA and the Association for Professional Observers (APO) have submitted a formal complaint to the...
IOTC Starts Rescheduling Postponed Meetings
The IOTC informed its members that this year’s Total Allowable Catch (TAC) allocation meeting will be conducted through video conferencing via Zoom on September 15 and 16. Like many other RFMO...