After announcing it had a challenging year due to skipjack price drops, News Zealand’s largest listed fishing group, Sanford, has now sold a 47 year old 1,135 ton seiner to Talley’s, an...
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Conflicting Views Within US Industry On Tuna Catch Reduction
While some believe that the current conservation measures for tuna stocks are enough, Joe Hamby, Chief Operating Officer at Tri Marine International, has stressed that more action is required...
Seiner Operators Feeling The Pain Of Low Prices
As high operational costs start to outweigh the price of skipjack, some purse seine owners fishing in the Pacific are reaching crisis point. American Samoan boat owners say that this is...
Lischewski Challenges Greenpeace To Work With Industry
Putting recent Greenpeace campaigns under scrutiny, Chris Lischewski, Chief Executive of Bumble Bee Seafoods, is challenging the NGO to work with the tuna industry on sustainability. While he...
Seiner Picks Up 2 Men Lost At Sea For 5 Months
Two PNG men who allegedly survived five months afloat in the Pacific were recently saved by a passing purse seiner 1,600km adrift. The two men, Michael Bolong, 54, and his nephew Ambros Wavut,...
PNA Accused Of Misstating The Facts On Bigeye At WCPFC
Atuna.com readers have been significantly vocal during the recent WCPFC annual meeting, voicing strong opinions on our pages. While many have been outwardly frustrated with a lack of progress,...
Taiwan Creates Trust Fund For PNA Tuna Industry
A new commitment has been made by Taiwan, as it establishes a tuna industry trust fund in the WCPFC for developing Pacific nations. The USD 2 million to be given over five years is targeted...
Indonesia Sinks Foreign Intruding IUU Vessels
In a bid to deter IUU fishing, the Indonesian government has this weekend sank three foreign vessels accused of fishing illegally within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The government sent...
Chinese Wharf Launches New Seiners
The Jinglu Shipbuilding Co. from the Shandong province in China has successfully built and released seven new vessels, two of which are tuna purse seiners destined for Taiwan’s Shun He Fishing...
Seiner Catches Fire, 21 Crew Saved
A Kiribati flagged purse seiner caught fire this weekend around 370km south of Jarvis Island. Luckily for the crew, who all abandoned ship, another US flagged tuna fishing vessel came to their...
SBT Season Due To Be Shorter Than Usual
As of December 1st, the new southern bluefin fishing season kicks off in Australia, having received a new national catch quota for 2015-2017, but vessels will most likely hold out until...
WCPFC – Five Days Of Talk And No Real Action
Final WCPFC outcomes have not relieved a general mood of frustration, as five days of talk end with what many see as very little action. Conclusions that most believe have left a void to fill,...
Sajo Disaster Death Toll Could Reach 53
After a South Korean trawler owned by tuna producer Sajo Industries sunk last Monday, the death toll has now reached 20, with a total 33 crew members still missing in the freezing cold western...
“Tuna Anesthesia” To Boost Vietnamese Tuna Quality
In Phu Yen, Vietnam, one tuna shipping company, Ba Hai Joint Stock Company, is set to have five composite vessels built with new electric tuna-anesthesia equipment at hand to aid the local...
WCPFC Meeting Enters Last Day, “So Far Frustrating”
As the WCPFC meeting enters its fifth and final day in Samoa, frustration still dominates the general mood. Many are disappointed at the lack of concrete movement in negotiations, saying that...
PNG Stresses Crucial Need For Domestic Tuna Landings
PNG is more than determined to see the true value of the nation’s tuna industry realized, and is once again stressing the crucial need for tuna to be landed and processed domestically. The...
Do You Think We Will See A Sell-Off Of Purse Seiner Vessels? Our Readers’ Predictions
Various companies have recently reported significant losses in the tuna seining business, with some, such as Sanford, announcing the possibility of a purse seiner sell-off. For financial...
Vietnamese Wharfs Churning Out More Tuna Vessels
As many as 70 new tuna vessels could be churned out of the Vietnamese province of Phu Yen by the end of 2016 as part of a number of fishery development policies planned for the region. The...
Bluefin Tuna Could Be Putting Orcas At Increased Risk
Researchers have suggested that Iberian orcas may be putting themselves at risk by limiting themselves to certain areas along the coasts of Spain, making their distribution more constrained....
Flexibility For US Seiners “A Complicated Matter”
The American Tunaboat Association (ATA) has said that giving US tuna fleets the option to negotiate fishing rights directly with Pacific island nations would be beneficial to US vessels;...