The PNA is gearing up for a 10-day gathering in Kiribati, in which one of the central points of discussion will be if the VDS in the region should be replaced with a quota system. The core...
Fishing
Cook’s Cabinet Approves Controversial Spanish Seiner Deal
The Cook Islands cabinet has declared its support to the Prime Minister, Henry Puna, to go ahead with proceedings for a new fisheries agreement with the EU, in the face of ongoing national...
How Carrier Cost Impacts Skipjack Prices
A recent rapid surge in global skipjack prices is helping boatowners to more easily absorb relatively stable reefer carrier costs from WCPO fishing grounds to major Asian ports. While at the...
US Seiners Still Fishing In EPO
While recent reports suggest that rapidly climbing global skipjack prices have encouraged the US tuna fleet to get back to WCPO fishing operations as quickly as possible, it actually seems...
Insider Info: What’s That Code Underneath The MSC Logo?
A new survey by MSC has shown that more than two thirds of consumers want to know their fish can be traced back to a trusted source, and as a result MSC says many look to ecolables to provide...
Has Pole And Line Totally Passed Its Peak?
Over the last three years there has been a notable ten percent drop in the volume of global pole and line tuna catch; the main message coming from the IPNLF’s recent “status and trends”...
How Much Illegal Tuna Is Worth $616m?
The huge figure revealed yesterday placing a price on the amount of lost revenue illegal fishing generates in the Pacific each year has raised eyebrows amongst those in the tuna industry, but...
Report: Illegal Pacific Tuna Catch Worth A Staggering $616m
An independent report by the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has this week been released, and for the first time puts a figure on the cost of illegal tuna fishing in the Pacific, indicating that...
Discovery Of Spawning Ground; “Not A Game Changer”
Despite a recent report calling for Atlantic bluefin stocks to be reassessed in light of a new spawning site, Pew has said that it’s much too premature to be calling it “a game changer” for...
Japan Urges South Korea To End Excessive Fishing
The Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) has called upon South Korea to halt excessive fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna, which is in breach of international rules. Being a major consumer of bluefin,...
FIMS: The Eyes And Ears Of The PNA
Despite perpetual talk of rampant IUU fishing globally and ways in which it can be curbed, little attention is often given to the systems designed to battle such illegal activities, such as...
Unique Deal From Yellow Card Nations To Stop Tuna IUU
With respective yellow cards of both five and eleven months under their belts already, Taiwan and Thailand are stepping up efforts to shake off the EU warnings surrounding illegal fishing in...
Court Urged To Get US Vessels Out Of Protected Zone
A ruling by NOAA made earlier this year to allow US tuna longliners to fish closer to the American Samoan coasthas riled the US territory’s government, which is now calling for the decision to...
Will The Innovative ZUNFLOAT Replace The Traditional FAD?
The satellite buoy manufacturer ZUNIBAL, in collaboration with the Spanish purse seiner company PEVASA, has developed the marine platform ZUNFLOAT for tuna fishing, looking to reduce the...
Mysterious Dongwon Seiner Crash In Seychelles
A Dongwon-owned tuna purse seiner which ran aground and became stranded earlier this week in the Seychelles has now been successfully rescued, according to local authorities, after several...
Banks Hired To Reshuffle Multi-Million Tuna Debt
After months of indecision, Mozambique’s government has finally decided to take a big step forward in addressing the nation’s controversial tuna bond debt, officially hiring the services of...
How Do They Do It? MSC’s Rigorous Methods Explained
Fast becoming an internationally recognized ecolabel, it’s a fairly safe bet to say that virtually anyone in the global seafood industry could likely describe the basic principle of an MSC...
World’s Largest Tuna Catching Zone Gets New President
The leader of a political party which has the fight of corruption at the forefront of its agenda has been elected the new President of Kiribati, bringing Taneti Maamau and the opposition...
Goliath Tuna Shock Online Community
This week, some truly monstrous tuna have been making noise on online image sharing platform Instagram, where fishermen have been boldly celebrating their incredible catches, from the good,...
More Power Behind Joint African IUU Fight
Somalia has become the latest addition to the FISH-i Africa Task Force, made up of a group of African nations dedicated to ending illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the...