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Malta Unveils Fisheries System With Satlink
The Maltese Fisheries Information Integrated System (FIIS) was launched last week. FIIS, a national digital platform developed for Malta to integrate 100 percent of its tuna and other...
TUNACONS FAD Retrieval Program Enters Successful Third Year
The Ecuadorian tuna organization TUNACONS recently announced that it is continuing its work in the Galápagos Marine Reserve to recover FADs under the ‘Cuidando Galápagos’ (Caring for...
Shipbrokers Confirm The Sale Of ‘Guria’
More information about the sale of the purse seiner ‘Guria’ has been released by Albino Moran Shipbrokers, which oversaw the sale of the vessel. The company, in its LinkedIn post last month...
Transshipment Volumes At PNA Ports Ease Slightly
The volumes of tuna transshipped across PNA ports declined in November from the previous month, with transfer operations remaining concentrated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ports. Last week,...
Tuna Seiner Arrival At Spanish Port Brings Relief to Stevedores
The Spanish port of A Pobra do Caramiñal has been awaiting the arrival of tuna vessels for the past months. The purse seiner ‘Savanna Breeze’ arrived last week with 4,400 tons of tuna,...
Orthongel Responds French NGO’s Criticism Of SFPA Is Unfounded
French purse seine organization Orthongel has lashed out at the Bloom Association for its inaccurate criticism of the EU sustainable fisheries partnership agreements (SFPAs). The NGO wrote a...
Mar Del Plata Skipjack Surge Lifts Local Tuna Cannery Production
The Natusur tuna plant in Argentina has ramped up operations in recent weeks as unusual high skipjack volumes were landed in the nearby port of Mar del Plata. This development has provided...
WCPO Seiners Saw Lower Daily Catch Rates
The WCPO purse seine daily catch rate in November dropped slightly compared to the previous month. The highest rates were achieved in the EEZs of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon...
Project ReCon Expands To Somalia To Recover Buoys
Spanish technology firm Satlink and Somali non-profit MARCOD have signed an agreement to roll out Project ReCon in Somalia, aiming to recover and reuse echosounder buoys used in tuna fisheries...
WCPO Purse Seiner Activity Rose, Catches Did Not Follow Suit
Overall fishing effort by purse seiners operating in the WCPO increased, but the catches only slightly rose in November. The volume of skipjack caught went slightly up on the high seas and in...
Thai Canners WR Purchases Level Out
The import of frozen whole round tuna by Thai processors reduced by over one-tenth in 2025 from the year before. Skipjack purchases from WCPO vessels declined, but the buying from vessels...
ISSF Says Global Tuna Sustainability Hits New High
Nearly 97 percent of the global tuna catches in 2024 came from stocks considered to be at healthy levels, with four out of the 23 stocks showing improvement over the previous assessment,...
Venezuelan Fleet’s EPO Catches More Than Doubled
The catches of Venezuela-flagged seiners fishing in the EPO saw an uptick from January to September last year, hitting a five-year-high. The boats increased their intake of all major tropical...
What Is the Impact of Increasing Digital Demands on the Tuna Trade?
New EU regulations now require seafood exporters and importers to provide granular digital data for every tuna shipment. This shift raises a critical question: How will these mandates reshape...
EU Fisheries Deals Must Be Cooperative In The Future
Since 1979, the EU has had fishing agreements with developing coastal states. One recent research looked into 45 years of such deals, showing there has been a decline in their number, and many...
Solutions To Help Mitigate FADs Threat To Galapagos Marine Life
The Galapagos National Park wants measures to ban the threat of abandoned dFADs from tuna purse seiners to the marine life in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. By mapping the ocean currents, a...
Indonesian Crew Allege Portuguese Longliner Boatowner Abandoned Them
Indonesian crew members working aboard a Portuguese longliner have accused the vessel’s owner of having abandoned them with thousands of euros in unpaid wages, as the ship has remained docked...
GTA Executive Director Daniel Suddaby Steps Down
Daniel Suddaby, the Executive Director at the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) for the past three years, said he is leaving the organization “following a Board decision on a change in direction.”...
Philippines Fisheries Face Imminent Collapse, Says An NGO Report
The Marcos government has to take urgent measures to implement the Fisheries Code of 2015 and hold officials accountable to reverse the crisis in its fish stocks, which are 88 percent...