Following several short term closures for the cannery, StarKist Samoa is shutting its doors again, for an undisclosed period of time, stating that substantial shortage in whole round tuna...
Fishing
Govt. Subsidies Vital In Chinese Tuna Firm’s Profit
A healthy rise in first half year turnover has been posted for major Chinese tuna fishing firm, CNFC Overseas Fisheries, but despite the growth, government subsidies have been crucial in the...
Taiwanese Fleet Accused Of “Systemic Abuse”
Behind Taiwan’s thriving fisheries industry is a “dark secret” according to the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), which claims that operations are plagued by illegal activities and...
Explore: IUU Mapped In ‘World’s Largest Crime Scene’
Organized crime, arms and drug smuggling can often overlap with illegal fishing, it is shown in a new interactive database that discloses instances of IUU, and how the crime often correlates...
US Fleet Ocean Switching: “Disregard For Sustainability”
With one 72 day purse seine ban ongoing in the Eastern Pacific and another looming later this year, US seiners that have been operating in the EPO are expected to return to WCPO grounds soon....
Taiwan Takes Punitive Action To Get Rid Of Yellow Card
One of the world’s biggest tuna catchers, Taiwan, has been punishing illegal fishing violators with hefty fines this year, showing that it is making serious efforts to rid itself of a...
China: A Future Global Tuna Hub?
Efforts from China to up its tuna fishing and processing activities have been noticed in the last few years, and it is now also predicted that the nation will become a leader in seafood trade...
Serious Chinese Fishing Breaches In Pacific Tuna Grounds
Three Chinese vessels and one flagged to Taiwan have been caught for what’s described as “serious breaches of fishing licenses”, as part of a surveillance mission covering the tuna fishery in...
Basque Albacore Catch: A Stop To Growth This Season?
The current albacore tuna catching season in the Spanish Basque country could see an end to almost continuous growth in volume, as the EU DG Mare utters its belief that landings could be...
Strong Skipjack Surge From EPO Olympic Fishing
With seiners fishing Olympic style in the EPO in the first months of the year, overall tuna catches have climbed notably compared to last year’s tonnages, with skipjack landings the main...
Restricted US Waters To Open For Longline Fleet?
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, also known as Wespac, is working to craft new explanations for “non-commercial fishing” and “cultural fishing”. A change could...
Tri Marine To Increase Solomon Fleet With $7m+ Loan
Tri Marine’s Solomon Islands subsidiary is being lent over USD 7 million to support sustainable tuna production and employment on the Pacific island nation, financing which will help fund the...
The ‘Under The Radar’ EPO Fleet Strongly Boosting Catch
With tuna catches in the Eastern Pacific having shown positive results in the first half of this year, one fleet that’s not often talked about has had a more notable increase than the rest....
Sharp Rise In Bigeye Catch % Also In EPO
A trend also seen in the Western Pacific, there has been a sharp rise in the share that bigeye tuna catch is making up of total landings in the EPO this year; a situation likely driven by...
IO Catch Quotas: Seiners Switching From Free-School To FAD?
Yellowfin catch quotas implemented in the Indian Ocean could lead to a situation of less free-school sets and more FAD fishing in the remaining months of the year, in a bid for seiners to keep...
Strong Financial Recovery For Chinese Pingtan
Major Chinese fishing firm, Pingtan Marine Enterprise has seen a massive boost to its turnover in the first half of this year. In 2016 the company made efforts to get out of a financial slump,...
High Premiums Paid In BKK For Spiking Pole & Line Supply
Healthy Indian Ocean pole and line catches continue to flood Bangkok canners with big volumes of Maldivian caught skipjack, and packers are willing to pay out high prices in return. Carrying...
Chile Gets Involved In Tuna Fishing
Chile has taken its first steps to get involved in tuna fishing, as the country wins approval to become a cooperating non-party state of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),...
Mexican Fishery: Is MSC Certification Justified?
The expected MSC certification of the Mexican skipjack and yellowfin fishery’s free-school and dolphin-associated operations has not gone without criticism, with NGO WWF having uttered its...
Olympic Quotas Don’t Belong In Most Tuna Fisheries
Even though so-called “Olympic” catch quotas have been introduced in several ocean areas as conservation measures for tuna stocks, there is dispute over the effect this system has on...