Last week, Atuna reported about the status of Indonesia's fishing industry, including its struggles to develop a tuna fishery sector due to a lack of a powerhouse, according to...
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Two Filipino Fishing Crew Escape From Onboard Abuse
Two Filipino fishing crew who escaped maltreatment on their vessel have been brought back to their home country, following a rescue by the Vietnamese Navy in the West Philippine...
Indonesia Lacks Tuna Powerhouse
Despite being the largest archipelagic country in the world with over 17,000 islands and vast coastlines, Indonesia is still struggling to develop its tuna fishery sector due to a lack of a...
Innovative Method Of Tuna Fishing Faces Funding Issue
Commercial fisherman Robert Nunes is campaigning for a new method of fishing to be used by the Costa Rican tuna industry. The method is called Greenstick and can be used to specifically...
Increased Aussie Aerial Surveillance Over 15 Pacific Island Nations Waters
An aerial cooperation agreement has been signed between delegates from Australia and the Marshall Islands Fisheries. The agreement means that with Australian funding, aerial surveillance...
‘Inferno’ Fire Wrecks Over 30 Indonesian Tuna Vessels
A massive fire in the port docks of North Jakarta, Indonesia has resulted in a temporary closure, forcing fishermen to remain on land while the clean-up and investigations...
Palau Joins 2023 IUU Pledge
Palau has recently made a pledge to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) by 2023. By January 1, 2020, the country will implement the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS),...
Marshall Islands, Thailand Sign Deal To Stop Underreporting On Transshipments
Frozen tuna transshipments from mostly purse seiner vessels and longliners to refrigerated carrier bulk cargo vessels is a daily occurrence in the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port...
Fishermen Protest Against Oil Spillages
The presence of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years is causing serious ecological damage and a 60 percent decline in catches, according to a fishery cooperative...
Costa Rica To Ramp Up Satellite Surveillance Against IUU
The Costa Rican government will partner with Global Fishing Watch to improve its satellite control and monitoring to deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing....
Data Analysis A Challenge For Ghana’s Electronic Monitoring Project
The government of Ghana has recently reported a successful experience in conducting trials on the use of the Electronic Monitoring Systems (EMS) as a tool for Monitoring, Control and...
Boat Hits Tuna Trap
A Portuguese flagged tuna fishing boat with five Spanish crew members on board stranded off the Southern coast of Portugal after running into a tuna trap.The Rescue Center of Lisbon...
5 Crew Members Missing After Vessel Caught Fire
Five crew members of a Taiwan-flagged fishing boat have gone missing after a fire broke out on their vessel in the waters off the Falkland Islands on Monday. The five missing...
Japan Asked To Invest In Indonesia’s New Tuna Hub
The Indonesian government seeks out Japanese authorities and firms to be its trading partners as plans of a new tuna hub are underway. Particularly, Fisheries director Rifky...
Japanese Allowed Fishing In Palau
The Palau government will allow Japanese fishermen to continue catching skipjack in the Pacific nation’s water amid talks of closing its waters by 2020. Japanese Okinawa fishermen rely on...
Tragedy At Sea: Crew Members Forced To Jump Overboard
A verbal confrontation escalated into a deadly brawl forcing 10 crew members to jump overboard at knifepoint from a Taiwanese longliner called Wen Peng. Two Filipino crew...
No Expansion Of Fishing Grounds For Senegal’s Fleet
The Senegalese tuna fleet might not get access to the additional fishing grounds that they are desperately looking for. This week the Liberian Plenary of the House of Representatives has...
India’s Blue Revolution: 27 Shipyards To Build 800 New Deep-Sea Vessels
To encourage fishermen to take up deep-sea fishing, 27 shipyards across India will build around 800 new vessels in the next years. Most of them are mini-longliners or gillnet...
Skipjack Catch In EPO Dropped Substantially
Overall tuna catches in the Eastern Pacific Ocean dropped by 3 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). The cut amounted...
Mozambican Fishing Port Expansion Underway
The Mozambican government has invested USD 120 million in the renovation of the Beira’s fishing port. It has a capacity to accommodate 16 fishing boats (particularly tuna vessels) at the same...