A US district court judge handling the dolphin-safe tuna case has granted time for a tuna company to respond to amended claims by plaintiffs. Judge William H. Orrick allowed Chicken of the Sea...
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FAO Program Claims To Have Helped Decrease Worldwide Tuna Overfishing
A program by the UN focusing on the protection of international waters has claimed to have achieved remarkable results in the five years it has been operating. Eight out of the 13 commercial...
UK Wants To Improve Trade Relations With Ecuador
The UK is seeking to improve its trade relations with Ecuador since Brexit is now moving forward. The South American nation is not only the largest trading partner with the EU when it comes to...
Program Launched In Brazil To Encourage Good Fishing Practices In Tuna Fleet
A new management program, “The Partners of the Atlantic Ocean” was recently launched in Brazil in order to disseminate monitoring and good fishing practices in the tuna fleet based in...
Test To Find Parasites In Ranched Bluefin Effective
Researchers in Australia who have been developing a diagnostic testing technique for parasitic blood flukes in Australia’s ranched southern bluefin have published the first...
ANF Might Sue Diversified Communications Over Boston Show Ban
Atlantic Natural Foods (ANF), owner of the Loma Linda plant-based alternative brand that includes TUNO, has announced that it is considering legal options against the producers...
TUNACONS Making Part Of Its FADs Eco-Friendly
The purse seine fleet of TUNACONs in Ecuador has announced that by the end of this year, it will replace 20 percent of its traditional FADs with EcoFads. The move aims to strengthen the...
Company Stops Fishing In Palau Due To Marine Sanctuary
As of January 1, the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) closed 80 percent of Palau’s EEZ to any form of fishing. The fishing company Palau International Traders Corporation (PITI) is...
Full Cotton The Best Biodegradable Rope Material For FADs
The results of a study of biodegradable ropes for FADs concluded that 100 percent cotton ropes should be utilized with fish aggregating devices as an alternative to the submerged nets...
Albatrosses Fitted With Sensors Pick Up On IUU Fishing
A group of scientists have decided to equip hundreds of albatrosses with sensors to detect vessels conducting illegal fishing. Some 169 wandering and Amsterdam albatrosses were fitted with the...
Is The Tuna Industry Prepared For A Long Price Depression?
The present overcapacity of the global purse seiner fleet and the conservation measures in place might lead us to a new longer-lasting depression as the current skipjack prices in Manta and...
Spanish Vessel Targeting Bluefin Possibly Sank In Atlantic Ocean
Fears that a handliner targeting bluefin in the Atlantic has sunk along with its crew might have been confirmed today after two closed life rafts were found near a coastal town in Cádiz,...
IATTC Current Yellowfin Assessment Not Reliable For Management Advice
The results of the EPO yellowfin stock assessment for 2019 showed this tuna at a red level, which means that the target reference points (TRPs) are estimated to have been exceeded. The...
All Atlantic Albacore Stocks Are Doing Well
Atlantic albacore is not overfished according to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). The RFMO's scientific report states that the stocks in the North...
NZ: High Underreporting For Non-Observer Longliner Trips
Fishers on non-observed longliner fishing trips targeting migratory species such as tuna appear to be failing to report non-fish bycatch. This is according to the Annual Review Report for...
Tuna Rooms Found In Archaeological Remains In Spain
In Spain, two archaeological excavations carried out in the town of Estepona, in the province of Málaga, have revealed the remains of rooms used to process tuna from about 2,000 years ago. The...
Townspeople Cut Up Balfegó Bluefin Washed Up On Shore
One farm belonging to Spanish bluefin company Balfegó was hit by the Gloria storm, which also has claimed the lives of at least five people since it started last Sunday. The affected facility...
Port Lincoln To Celebrate Tuna Fishery In Australia
Port Lincoln is gearing up for this year’s Tunarama Festival, which will run for four days starting January 24. Some of the highlights of the festival include the World Championship Tuna Toss,...
EPO Veda Prevents Harvesting Potentially Over 100,000 M/T Of Tuna
This week the 148 purse seiners that took part in the second veda in the EPO left port to resume their tuna fishing activities after the closure period ended on January 19. The ban was...
EU Parliament Approves Fisheries Agreement Acts With Guinea-Bissau
On January 21, the EU Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries recommended approving the legislative acts on the conclusion of the new fisheries agreement between the EU and Guinea-Bissau,...