They might be small, typically reaching no more than 80cm and 2.5 kg in size, but they are also mighty, as this one resilient species supplies close to half of the global consumption of tuna....
Fishing
Tri Marine: US Tuna Treaty “Shortsighted And Obsolete”
Tied up in port, the American fleet has found itself at the center of something of a standoff, which major US tuna supplier Tri Marine believes is a result of the “shortsighted” US tuna...
StarKist: US Fleet Should Get More Access To High Seas
With the US flagged seiner fleet docked, canneries heavily relying on its tuna catch say there are alternative supply sources available, but they are limited, expensive and unsustainable over...
Spanish Seiner Finds Vanished Fishermen
Two fishermen who have been missing since Christmas Eve were spotted by Spanish-flagged tuna seiner, ‘Aurora-B’ just yesterday, 130 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. During its tuna...
Calls For Gov’t Action To Get US Seiner Fleet Fishing Again
With the US tuna fleet remaining tied up in port for the foreseeable future, a US Congressman is now calling on the government to step in and provide assistance to the situation which has seen...
PNA’s Pacifical Partnership: A Game Changer In Sustainable Production?
A new study has documented the way in which the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) has created the conditions for its individual states to use the MSC sustainability certification in...
Huge Marine Reserve Created In Atlantic
The British government is set to create a marine reserve almost the same size as the UK in a territory the country holds in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, designed to help police a tuna fishery...
With No Treaty Licenses, US Fleet Remains In Port
Suspending operations for the foreseeable future, the US seiner fleet is docked in port, with no tuna licenses to continue fishing in Pacific zones, after the US government failed to meet the...
Tuna: Not Extinct By 2048 After All?
Now ten years old, a study which predicted that virtually all salt-water fish would be extinct by 2048is now a decade closer to its deadline, and after facing some well publicized criticism...
Where Will 2016 Take The BKK SKJ Price?
As the previous year draws to a close and a new one begins, many take the opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months. However as well as doing that, here at atuna.com we are keen to look...
24 Philippine Fishermen Arrested By Indonesian Navy
Indonesia authorities have arrested at least 24 Filipino fishermen on board two vessels who were fishing illegally in waters off North Maluku province in Indonesia. The first ship seized by...
Evidence Of EU Vessels Involvement In IUU Fishing
Liberia’s Bureau of National Fisheries (BNF) states to have concrete evidence of illegal fishing of European Union (EU) vessels in the country’s waters. Mr. Berengere...
Court Rules In favor Of Over-Quota Catch Bigeye Longliners
A US federal court in Hawaii has ruled longline fishermen in Hawaii may continue catching more bigeye tuna, or ahi, than the maximum quota set by international regulators. U.S. District Judge...
Operators Accused Of Holding US Seiner Fleet Hostage
According to a press release by the US tuna purse seine fishing firms the Global Companies (Ocean Global, LLC, Sea Global, LLC, and Pacific Global, LLC), they are being held hostage due to the...
WTO Divided On How To Curb Tuna Subsidies
So far WTO talks remain divided on how to curb harmful fishing subsidies, namely in the tuna industry, and try to protect global fish stocks for the future. Global agreement will be needed to...
Vietnam’s Tuna: Disappointing Results
With initial expectations being very high, optimization of Vietnam’s domestic caught tuna value chain has not yet yielded the expected results, at the end of year one of a four year trial,...
What Makes The US Longline Fleet So Much Better?
“The US has shown that longline fishing can be very clean” were the comments of one of our readers on a recent atuna.com article, which aired the opinions of some WCPFC12 attendees, stating...
Sri Lanka’s Tough IUU Approach Keeps Filling Prisons
Working to shake off its IUU reputation, Sri Lanka appears to be putting in all the stops to cut illegal fishing operations in its waters, and is detaining a significant number of Indian tuna...
EU Fleet Must Slash Bigeye Catch
The EU is taking initiative on a species that has been marked as “continuously overexploited” in recent stock status reports, agreeing to cut its catches of bigeye tuna in the Atlantic Ocean...
How Ghana Has Become A Role Model
Ghana has been commended this week by the EU for its continuing commitment in tackling IUU fishing, and has been presented by the EU Fisheries Commission as a prime example of a country which...