Tuna catches in the EPO are better than ever. IATTC data for the first quarter of 2020 revealed record-high volumes since the RFMO started posting this information online in 2007. Fleets in...
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Solomon Islands’ Longliners Battle IUU Fishing With E-Monitoring
The government of Solomon Islands is working with the Spanish engineering firm, Satlink, for a new project to better monitor and manage its tuna longline fishery electronically. Through this...
New Isolation Area For COVID-19 Fishermen In Manta
To better cope with the number of COVID-19 patients in Manta, a new isolation area has been built. Twenty fishermen, currently in quarantine on board their respective fishing vessels three...
Fishermen With COVID-19 Symptoms Dock In Galápagos Islands
In Ecuador - one of the countries hardest-hit by the COVID-19 virus in South America - fishermen on board tuna vessels have been reported to have symptoms related to the virus. Last week, a...
Atuna Poll: Can US Importers Verify Non-IUU Caught Tuna?
In 2018, NOAA established the US Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) to prevent IUU caught fish from entering the American market. This measure comprises compliance for 13 fish species...
Spanish Govt Organizes Change Of Tuna Crew In Seychelles
Due to COVID-19 preventive and control measures, tuna fishermen on board purse seiners have had to extend their fishing trips by as much as twice the usual time. This is due to governments...
China Wants To Boost Domestic Tuna Consumption
China is pushing to raise its domestic consumption for tuna and other seafood caught by its distant water fleet. For years, the country has been cracking down on domestic fishing in order to...
Indonesian Govt Requests Explanations Over Fishers’ Deaths
Earlier this week, a report linked the deaths of four Indonesian fishers to one Chinese tuna longliner, which docked in South Korea. The deceased crew’s government said yesterday that is...
Results Of Atuna’s World Tuna Day Quiz
Atuna celebrated this year's World Tuna Day with a bit of fun tuna knowledge. Last week we sent all of our readers a quiz, and we promised a copy of Steven Adolf's book, Tuna Wars, to the...
French Territory In Pacific Counting Washed Up FADs
For months, Wallis and Futuna islands in the Pacific have been counting the number of lost and stranded drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs) washing up on their shores. This is due to a...
Pesca Azteca Less CO2 Emissions & Higher Fuel Economy
The Mexican tuna fishing and processing firm, Pesca Azteca, is reducing its CO2 emission while making its fuel consumption more efficient. This is thanks to the Start-Stop system that it has...
Major Retailers Ask Flag States To Implement E-Monitoring
More than 50 retailers, brands, and seafood companies across the globe such as Walmart, Aldi, Asda, Carrefour, and Tesco have called on 45 flag states (like the US) to implement E-monitoring...
Women In Ivory Coast Need Better Access To Tuna
Women in Ivory Coast play a big role in the tuna value chain in the country. But they are still having difficulty obtaining fish due to the falling availability of fish and middlemen who...
American Samoa To Begin Work On New Dock For Local Longliners
The domestic longliners in American Samoa will soon be able to anchor without any issues on the island as the construction of a new berthing area, which extends the current dock at Malaloa...
Deaths On Board Chinese Vessel Due To Lack Of Medical Care
A new report published by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) stated that four Indonesian crew members on board a Chinese tuna longliner died after they were denied medical care. Hence,...
Major Global Tuna Highlights April 2020
In April, there were major changes across the globe in the tuna industry due to the coronavirus. Tuna prices starting falling in several markets while the US oil price dropped to a negative...
New Technology To Track Drifting Longlines
A project in Australia is proposing a new technology to prevent accidental drift of lines into no-fishing areas of marine parks. The initiative is being carried out by Tuna Australia and it...
Low Skipjack Demand Affecting Maldivian Exports
Maldivian fish export earnings dived in 2019, mainly due to a big market drop in consignments of frozen skipjack to Thailand. Seafood shipments constituted 95 percent of the total national...
Atuna Team Celebrates World Tuna Day
In honor of the World Tuna Day, the Atuna team would like to share with our readers some of the tuna dishes with which we celebrate the occasion during lunch. Clockwise: tuna poke bowl, tuna...
2020 Marks Memorable Affair For Celebrating The Mighty Tuna
World Tuna Day this year has a different flavor to it. Although a quiet affair, this annual event is still going to be a memorable one for different reasons. In 2017, the UN officially...