With Hawaiian vessels catching bigeye tuna at a banner pace this year, concerns are coming from the US that its WCPO longline fishery will likely be shut down by mid-August, months earlier...
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Tuna Loan Drives Mozambique S&P Financial Downgrade
Largely driven by the multimillion dollar loan to create a domestic tuna fishing fleet, Mozambique has now suffered a long term downgrade to its financial rating, dropping from B to B-. The...
Firm In “Red Carded” Country Certified Friend Of The Sea
Friend of the Sea appears to have a different view on IUU than the European Union, as it hands a tuna firm of an IUU red-carded nation a “sustainable certification.” Not only has the Sri...
Could Subsidies Keep Major Tuna Fishing Nation From Joining TPP?
As the US urges for fishing fleet subsidies to be thrown out of one of the world’s largest free trade agreements, it looks like another government-aided Asian fishing nation is interested in...
UK Retailers Trapped In the Pole And Line Cage?
In their quest to deliver the most sustainably caught tuna, some leading UK retailers now seem to have been driven into what one industry source calls “the pole and line cage” by Greenpeace,...
EU Long Distance Fleet Activities Under The Microscope
The EU will be working alongside Africa later this year, joining together to build a stronger unit in combating illegal fishing and protecting stocks. The European long distance fleet wants to...
GP Scores USA Retailers On IUU And Social Issues
The most prominent findings from the latest Carting Away the Oceans (CATO) report show that major retailers are not adequately addressing slavery and human rights in the seafood industry. Just...
USA Wants To End Fishing Subsidies As Part Of Pacific Trade Deal
The US, working with Canada, Australia and NZ wants state subsidies for harvests of overfished stocks and illegal fishing out of the picture as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),...
MSC Fund To Increase Accessibility Of Certification
Launching a new global fund for supporting critical fishery science, MSC is aiming to strengthen knowledge and global capacity to assist small scale and developing world fisheries to achieve...
Ematum Defended By Mozambique’s “Huge Tuna Catch”
Defending the project from masses of criticism, representatives of the Mozambique government are stressing that despite huge controversy over the investment of USD 500 million in Ematum tuna...
Small Fishermen Feel Discriminated By High Registration Fees
Anger has mounted among small-scale tuna boat operators, claiming that registration fees and demands for deposits on vessels are “discriminatory.” Any boat owner in India’s coastal state of...
Who Will Pay For Removing A Bankrupt Longliner From The Reef?
Nearly two months after running aground on the reef just off Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, the Sea Hawk 68 tuna longliner remains stranded offshore as its owners declare...
EU And Mauritania Close A New Sustainable Tuna Fishing Deal
The European Union and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have concluded a deal that will allow EU tuna fishermen to fish in Mauritanian waters for four years. The agreement implementing the...
Sapmer: Can More FAD Use Reverse Its Falling Profits?
French tuna fishing company Sapmer appears to have abandoned its strategy of focusing on added value yellowfin tuna products and instead has moved towards a more volume oriented route on...
ISSF Companies Undermine Their Own Core Strategy
The ISSF’s annual report has revealed that only two out of 24 companies have been fully complying with the conservation measure in place to provide data support to RFMO’s scientific bodies....
American Samoa – A Small Developing State?
If American Samoa could become a SID, what’s stopping the distant island territory of any developed nation getting the status? Could New Caledonia then also be named as a Small Island...
“Stocking Up” Makes Manta SKJ Price Explode
High catch in the EPO has been keeping Manta skipjack prices low in recent months, but a few concerning factors are now pushing the market up. Ecuadorian canners have started to make a move to...
Global Warming Makes P&L Skipjack Harder To Hook
Abrupt shifts in weather conditions spur changes in tuna migration patterns, and for Maldivian pole and line fishermen, this trend is occurring too close for comfort. According to a skipjack...
West Coast Albacore Landings Picking Up
Catches of albacore off the US west coast continue to come in early; as over the first week of July, significant landings by Oregon fishermen have been reported. While the effort is not yet...
West Coast Albacore Landings Picking Up (3)
Catches of albacore off the US west coast continue to come in early; as over the first week of July, significant landings by Oregon fishermen have been reported. While the effort is not yet...