A 30-year-old Indian man was caught stealing 90 cartons of canned tuna in olive oil at a supermarket in Milan last night. The stolen products, of an undisclosed brand at the time of this...
Fishing
IN BRIEF: UK Catch-And-Release Fishers Want Access To Bluefin
UK catch-and-release fishers are seeing potential economic benefits with the recent, though slow, “recovery” of the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna. Consequently, campaigners are calling on...
European Parliament Visits Vietnam To Fight IUU Fishing
Members of the European Parliament’s (EP’s) Committee on Fisheries held a working session with authorities from Vietnam’s tuna processing center of Binh Dinh yesterday, October 31. The meeting...
Tonga Concerned Over Drop In Tuna Landed
Head of Tonga’s Ministry of Fisheries, Dr. Tu’ikolongahau Halafihi, has expressed his concerns over a significant decrease in the island nation’s tuna stock. Since observing a “sharp decrease”...
Activists Demand Monitoring Social Conditions On Filipino Seiners
Where recent coverage has been primarily focused on efforts to quell human rights abuse, among other contraventions, in the Thailand fisheries sector- a similar upsurge of activism has been...
IN BRIEF: More Bluefin Spotted In North Sea And Scotland
The spotting of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the North Sea has become more frequent this year. Sightings of the largest tuna species in the North Sea and off the west coast of Scotland, which was...
How West African Bigeye By-Catch Hurts American Trophy Fishers
American recreational fishers are concerned that the dwindling stock of bigeye tuna in the tropical fisheries of the African west coast could obliterate their sport. The tuna, which grow up to...
Wholesaler: What To Do If EU Papers Turn Out To Be Falsified?
The robust crackdown on illegal bluefin smuggling and trading, lead by EUROPOL’s Operation Tarantelo, advances this week with new coverage emerging from local media in Madrid, Spain. Local...
IN BRIEF: American Samoa: New Chair For The WPFMC
American Samoa has been elected to lead the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council (WPFMC) which regulates fishing in waters of the US Pacific territories of Guam, Northern Marianas,...
FFA To Operate 3 Jets To Patrol EEZ’s In IUU Fight
The lucrative business of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is an outstanding burden on the economies of small island nations, many of which are primarily reliant on the...
Micronesia Commits To Have 100% Transparency On Longlining
Micronesia’s President Peter Christian is concerned for the many countries that are still effectively “flying blind” when it comes to the management of fisheries. As the global fishing...
Scientists Meet To Discuss Critical State Of Indian Ocean Yellowfin
The red marked Indian Ocean yellowfin stock was the focal point for roundtable discussions at the recent Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC’s) 20th Session of the Working Party on Tropical...
Drop In Maldives Pole And Line Tuna Exports
The Maldives fisheries sector observed a 10 percent drop in exports due to a decline in tuna volume during the first half of 2018. As reported by the Maldives Monetary Authority’s quarterly...
1900 Participants Meet In Bali On Ocean Protection
The 2018 Our Ocean Conference (OOC) kicked off in Bali last Monday calling on the global population to participate in a joint effort to protect the world's oceans. The two-day main event will...
Filling Gaps On Gillnet Tuna Fisheries Of Pakistan
Tuna gillnetting is an antiquated practice in countries of the northern Indian Ocean- Pakistan, Iran, Oman, Yemen, and Somalia. Presently, around 2,500 gillnet vessels operate in the northern...
“Tuna For The Ticos” Campaign To Reduce Illegal Foreign Catches
A nationwide campaign calling for the protection of tuna and other marine resources has taken place in Costa Rica. Through its “Tuna for the Ticos” campaign, the Costa Rican Fisheries...
Kosher StarKist Tuna For 50,000 NYC Jewish Students
StarKist’s American Samoa cannery will begin production of “certified kosher tuna” from its plant next month. The Jewish Education Project in New York is sending kosher supervisors to Pago...
IN BRIEF: More Mexican Tuna To Hit The Middle East Markets
New approved air services between Mexico and the Middle East will enable Mexico to increase its tuna market share in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The agreement, which will serve to expedite...
Global Fishing Watch Zooms In On Eastern Pacific
In a professed effort to improve on transparency in Eastern Tropical Pacific fisheries, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has entered into a formal collaboration...
Chilean Navy Operation Against Asian Fleet Targeting Albacore
The Chilean armada has commissioned a navy patrol ship, the OPV-82 “Comandante Toro”, in its heightened efforts to supervise the fishing of tuna and...