With a full house of about than 300 delegates from over 40 countries worldwide, the European Tuna Conference 2015 generated stimulating discussion from every corner of the industry. We’ve put...
Fishing
WWF: “WCPFC At Risk Of Becoming Irrelevant”
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has now reached this conclusion: that the WCPFC is set to lose its relevance in tuna industry management if it does not develop ways to hold distant water fishing...
Do Anchored FADs Get An Undeserved Bad Name?
The generalization around the discussion on FADs needs to be minimized. This is the view of Emily Howgate of the International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF), who, at yesterday’s European...
What Are The Future Goals For Purse Seiner Building?
While fishing companies look to buy the best and most innovative vessels, shipbuilders are doing the legwork to meet that demand, and that comes with a number of industry challenges for them...
Why Photo E-Reporting Could Be Better Than Video Monitoring
For around two years now, Marine Instruments has been developing and implementing the use of e-reporting aboard tuna longliners and purse seiners, but with a unique spin; the technology...
Group To March In Protest Of Purse Seining
This week an anonymous group has organized a march in protest of purse seining in the Cook Islands, with the aim of raising awareness of overfishing, and the contribution of regional purse...
Phil-Owned Indonesia Processors Want PNG Tuna
Filipino owned canneries in Bitung, Indonesia, are looking to import tuna from PNG, as they claim a ban on transshipment and unloading at sea in the Indonesian EEZ has impacted their raw...
Indian Ocean Purse Seine Fishery Turning The Tables?
The IOTC will “hopefully and finally,” be discussing the idea of limiting the number of FADs deployed in the Indian Ocean. This is what Michel Goujon, the Director of Orthongel, says is...
Indonesian Fishing Firm Admits Abuse, Denies Slavery
A fishing company at the center of a recent Indonesian government crackdown, has denied slavery allegations, but admits it has abused workers. Management of the firm has even confirmed that...
FAO Report: Bycatch Mitigation On 7,500 Longliners Needs Improvement
In a new report published this week by the FAO, data reveals that there could be as many as 7,500 tuna longliners operating globally, 60 percent of which would be small scale vessels, less...
Everything Tuna At Seafood Expo Global
With just a few days to go until Europe’s largest seafood trade event kicks off in Brussels, we’ve been scouring the exhibitors that will be there and spying out everything tuna at this year’s...
IUU Vessel Caught Flying Philippine And Indonesian Flag
Flying the flags of both Indonesia and the Philippines, the KM Tuna Jaya vessel has been intercepted off the Talaud Islands regency. Officers from the Marine Resources and Fisheries...
2 Tuna Stocks Crossed Off NOAA Overfishing List
As the number of domestic fish stocks listed by NOAA as overfished drop to an all-time low, two tuna stocks get wiped off the register. The NOAA report, produced annually since 1997, is said...
Will Distant Slavery Links To TUF Have A Negative Effect On The Tuna Sector?
With extensive coverage from popular global media outlets and the corresponding input from governments and industry players, reports of slavery aboard fishing vessels, also indirectly inked...
Halt By Tuna Fleets: It’s Already Beginning To Happen
With a significant number of vessels tying up in port, under regional consensus or not, Maurice Brownjohn, Commercial Manager of the PNA, believes a fishery closure is beginning to happen....
Philippine Skipjack Catch Climbing Back
Rising to its highest level in three years, recorded landings of skipjack tuna by the Filipino fleet appear to be climbing back to previous volumes. Recent re-flagging of some foreign vessels...
19 Hour Battle With Tuna Watched By Thousands Online
Today and yesterday, thousands of avid watchers around the world witnessed the 19 hour long capture of a record weight tuna in the waters of Tasmania, Australia. Photos and videos of the...
Video Monitoring One Step Closer For Spanish OPAGAC Seiners
Part of the Spanish tuna seiner fleet is set to install a newly developed monitoring system aboard its vessels, using a closed circuit camera to record fishing activities and complement...
Pierre Commere: Actual Resource Sustainability Is Paramount To The Industry
Business and industry players must consider self-limitation to avoid putting at risk their noble resource, tuna, and its reputation. These are the words of Pierre Commere, Delegate General of...
EU Fleet Wants Tax Cuts To Compete With Taiwan
In bid to increase competitiveness against Asian tuna fishing fleets, CEPESCA, representing Spanish vessels, and ANABAC, which represents part of the Spanish tuna seiner fleet, are calling for...