Atuna readers were divided regarding how 2019 was for their businesses. A majority of them believed that it was a "reasonable" or "bad" year. Each received 37.5 percent of the...
Fishing
Manta’s Symbolic Yellowfin Statue Taken Down
Manta’s famous yellowfin monument has been removed, apparently in a bid to improve traffic in the area where the statue was located. After about 13 years of being displayed on...
Bluefin Washes Up On North-East Beach In UK
A bluefin of approximately 2.5 meters in length washed up on a beach at the town of St Fergun, in the north-east UK. The fish, which is estimated to weigh around 190.5 kg, was...
Researcher: EU Should Be Denied Access To West African Tuna
A study has stated that fishing agreements between the EU and West African countries undermine food security for local coastal communities. According to one of the authors of...
Indonesia Displeased With Chinese Coast Guard Incursions
Indonesia is unhappy with Chinese vessels, including the Coast Guard, entering its EEZ. The country’s Foreign Ministry filed a formal complaint with China over alleged violations in its waters...
Seychelles’ Seiners Can Resume Fishing After Idle Period
The beginning of January means the introduction of a new annual quota in the Indian Ocean. Idle seiners in port that had reached their yellowfin...
Push For More Reliable Transshipment Weight Data In Western Pacific
Within the Western Pacific, MIMRA, alongside FFA and SPC, are continuing their efforts to push for more reliable data regarding purse seiner catches during the transshipment phase. Tests...
PNA Purchases Revolutionary Fisheries Information Management System
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have purchased a key Integrated Fisheries Information Management System (iFIMS), an essential tool to manage the multi-billion dollar tuna...
Kiribati Crew Member Murdered On Board US Seiner
A crew member from Kiribati working on board a US-flagged purse seiner was killed last week in the Majuro Lagoon in the Marshall Islands. A co-worker from PNG is...
Baja California Sees High Value From Bluefin In 2019
The fisheries and aquaculture sector in Baja California had a fruitful 2019 and bluefin generated the highest production value last year, amounting to USD 56.6 million....
Almadraba Documentary Follows “The Red Gold” To Japan
The trailer for the new documentary following the journey of bluefin, from its capture in the Spanish almadrabas to its sale in the Japanese market, is finally out. The movie, which...
Spanish Explanations On Indian Ocean Overfishing “Misleading”
The Chairman of the Seychelles Fishing Authority and CEO of environmental non-profit Nature Seychelles, Nirmal Jivan Shah, has been speaking out about the irregularities and...
Notorious Military Contractor Wants To Run 24 Ematum Longliners
Hong Kong-registered Frontier Services Group (FSG) interest in doing business in Mozambique is deteriorating. As of now, the only deal standing is the FSG’s owner's attempt to set up a tuna...
Poor Training & Oversight Caused Sinking Of US Seiner
A year after the purse seiner ‘Jeanette’ caught fire and sank in American Samoa’s waters, an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that the...
EU-Gambia Fisheries Agreement Finally Put Into Effect
With a majority of 478 votes, the new six-year Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Gambia was approved by the Europian Parliament on...
IATTC’s President, Alfonso Miranda – Chair Of AMAtuna2020
Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, who was recently elected President of IATTC and is also President of the Peruvian Chamber of Tuna (CPA), will chair the Americas Tuna...
US Turning Blind Eye On Human Rights Perpetrators In High Seas
A letter signed by 24 organizations asking to hold accountable distant water fishing nations that use forced labor to catch seafood in high seas was sent to Marcia...
Worries Over Chinese Influence On Kiribati’s Tuna Resource
The growth of China’s geopolitical influence in the South Pacific has been worrying some experts, who convened at the Global Taiwan Institute last week. Retired Navy...
EU Finances Vessels To Prevent Young Somalis From Piracy
The FAO recently delivered twelve small tuna fishing boats to Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. The vessels were given as part of a...
Anchored FADs To Help Galapagos Fishermen Catch Tuna
In the Islands of the Galapagos, in Ecuador, an initiative to preserve the population of native species with slow reproductive cycles is redirecting fishermen to catch more tuna and other...