Getting ready to prosecute any vessels accused of fishing illegally in their EEZs, Pacific fisheries officials have stepped into courtroom roles this week, conducting role plays around IUU...
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ICCAT: The Bluefin Results
ICCAT has been praised by WWF for keeping the bluefin quota and recovery plan unchanged as a result of talks during its recent annual meeting, which concluded in St Julian’s, Malta this week....
Riding A Bluefin With A Bottle Of Wine
It’s not every day you see someone riding on top of a huge bluefin tuna, let alone while sipping on wine in the process. That’s what Stephanie Osgood Choate appears to enjoy, as she has...
EU Slams NGO View On Atlantic Bigeye
Despite noting that not all of its ambitions were met, the European Union has said that on a whole it is satisfied with the results from the recently concluded ICCAT meeting, and says that it...
Tuna Brands Want WCPFC To Limit FADs
Going along with the philosophy that the ultimate sustainability responsibility lies with tuna RFMOs, major branded tuna companies united as part of the ISSF, have a long list of...
How Can Malta Keep EU Seiners Out Of Its Coastal Zone?
Holding rather a unique position, the island of Malta in the Mediterranean is a regular coastal nation in every sense of the word; bar one. When it comes to an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),...
Major IO Fleets See Skipjack Slip
The majority of the main Indian Ocean operating tuna fleets witnessed significant drops in their skipjack catch last year, with some seeing nearly 10,000 ton declines from 2013. The slip, for...
ICCAT Passes The Buck On FADs & Bigeye
Despite it being an underlined issue on the agenda, serious concern has been aired over the lack of action taken to reduce the bycatch of bigeye tuna and the proliferation of drifting FADs at...
Alternative Fishing Grounds Keep Phil Catches Up
To keep their catch rates healthy, Philippine seiners are moving further from shore to reel in tuna, and FADs appear to be playing a growing role in their activities. There are eight tuna...
Timing Of Maldives MSC Audit Still Unclear
The exact timing of the upcoming audit of the Maldives’ pole and line Indian Ocean MSC certification is still unknown, leaving tuna fishery stakeholders from the nation in the dark. Any final...
Are Philippine Skipjack Catches Making A Comeback?
Fisheries production in the Philippines is growing, with an increase in output of 1.8 percent in the third quarter of the year, according to the Department of Agriculture, with most of this...
Sri Lanka’s Red Card Limbo
Despite a special EU representative having arrived in Sri Lanka today to discuss the final report concerning the nation’s red card sanction, it appears that the country may have to wait a...
Old Fashioned Tuna Data Reporting Methods “Useless”?
Conservationists in Taiwan are calling for a new ‘cloud computing’ system of fisheries management to be implemented, in which an electronic recording and reporting system would replace the...
Indian Ocean Yellowfin: The 5 Year Climb
There’s been a steep uphill climb in Indian Ocean yellowfin catch over the last five years at least, as landing volumes of the species now almost level with skipjack. Since levels recorded in...
Filipino Fishing Firm Signs Multi-Million Deal
Industrial wire and rope manufacturer Bridon is now a new supplier of one of the Philippines’ biggest tuna fishing firms, RD Fishing, after the company was reportedly impressed by the quality...
Are FAD-Free Declarations Reliable?
According to recent reports, observers in PNG working under the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) have been providing validation of tuna catches being FAD-free or free school, despite such...
NZ Increasing Push On PNA To Drop VDS
Pressures on the PNA to drop the Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) are intensifying, as a New Zealand government team arrives in the Marshall Islands, where the PNA office is based, to push its case for...
E-Monitoring Developments Take Off In Ghana
A fishing monitoring project which has been branded as “unprecedented” is now underway in Ghana, with a portion of the African nation’s tuna fleet now equipped with various trial systems set...
Enormous Yellowfin Impresses On Instagram
With yellowfin tuna recorded as overfished in the Atlantic Ocean, capturing an image of one fully grown at an age of eight years old and close to two meters in length is relatively rare in the...
Is A Marine Park Compatible With FAD Fishing?
Announce a plan to create a marine reserve and at same time sell fishing rights in that same area to purse seine operators with a reputation of fishing with FADs; can that be an effective...