'Danielle Lynn,' a US purse seiner drifting in the South Pacific since December 12, has asked for assistance from other vessels in the area. The seiner was unable to continue its trip....
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GrupoMar To Discuss Mexican Tuna Market At AMAtuna 2020
The Mexican canned tuna industry has been growing steadily in the last five years. Surprisingly, in the North American country, fish and seafood are the main sources of protein, positioned...
No Management Complacency In WCPFC
Graham Philling, Director of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Oceanic Fisheries Programme, said during an RNZ radio interview that there is no room for complacency in the way the...
Spain Refutes Overfishing Yellowfin In Indian Ocean
Another accusation has been leveled against the EU fleet, especially the Spanish, for overfishing red-rated yellowfin in the Indian Ocean – this time by Seychelles. A fisheries...
Could Panama Be Facing Second EU Yellow Card?
Today, EU notified Panama about the risk of being identified as a non-cooperating country in combating Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing on tuna. Normally, this...
Japanese Tuna Fishermen Denied Compensation By High Court
A Japanese High Court has upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a claim by former tuna fishermen and bereaved relatives for state compensation over hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll,...
No Strides Made At WCPFC On Harvest Strategies
No headway was made to modernize fisheries management and protect tuna stocks at the 16th Session of WCPFC, which concluded yesterday. Member states of the RFMO did...
Japan Gets Extra Bluefin Quota From Taiwan For 2020
The WCPFC meeting, which concluded yesterday, confirmed and approved Japan's acquisition of an extra catch quota of 300 M/T for large bluefin – weighing 30 kilograms or more...
Ecuador’s TUNA PAN Includes Stricter Small Seiner Monitoring
Ecuador has adopted a national action plan through which it aims to improve its fisheries management and aid in getting rid of the yellow card handed by the EU in late...
WCPFC’s Voluntary Guidelines For Seabirds’ Safety
The issue of safeguarding seabirds from becoming tuna bycatch was discussed during the WCPFC 16 meeting, which is currently taking place in Port Moresby, PNG. Consequently, the...
PNG Prime Minister: IUU Vessels Will Be Sunk
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, James Marape, has warned that illegal fishing vessels in its waters will be sunk. “I take this time to put illegal fishermen on notice. When I build up...
Greenpeace Sees “Modern Slavery” On Asian Tuna Seiners
Greenpeace South Asia recently published a report ‘Seabound: The Journey to Modern Slavery on the High Seas’. The NGO investigated the living and working conditions of migrant...
Glacial Progress On Key Priorities At WCPFC 2019
Negotiations are still ongoing at the 16th Session of the WCPFC gathering at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on the essential issues of the tuna industry in the region. However, little...
FFA Reiterates Its Founding Role In WCPFC
The Director-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, has highlighted that FFA's members were the founders of the Tuna...
GFW Satelite Data Tracks Panamanian Tuna Seiners, Sometimes
A few months ago, Panama underlined the necessity of monitoring vessels and transshipments and combating illegal fishing. For greater transparency and to enforce compliance in its fleet,...
Accurate Transhipment Tuna Weights With Dynamometers
Measuring exactly how much tuna a purse seiner catches is not an easy task. In fact, to this day, observers and purse seiner captains work with estimates. Traditional scales are not suitable...
Costa Rican Fishers Demand Stricter Surveillance On International Seiners
In Costa Rica, volunteers aiming to present a request to the government for better surveillance of purse seiner fishing in the country’s waters have already collected thousands...
Filipino Fishers To Earn Blockchain Tokens For Their Tuna
Fishermen in Philippines can soon earn a peso-backed stablecoin from a blockchain-based fish traceability pilot program called Tracey. The initiative aims to facilitate sustainable...
WCPFC 16 Key Priorities Include Proper Harvest Strategies
The 16th Regular Session of the WCPFC is beginning today and member nations, governmental organizations, NGOs, and other parties will be discussing numerous core issues that affect the...
Filipino And Indo Seiners Net More Juvenile Fish In WCPO
Small seiners in the domestic fisheries of Indonesia and Philippines catch more juvenile tuna with associated sets – skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye – compared to other countries, says a...