Following discrepancies over the expiry date of a bilateral fisheries agreement, the EU tuna fishing fleet is being ordered to leave the African waters of Mauritania today. Any EU-flagged tuna...
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Kenya Expects To Earn USD 137 Million From Tuna Annually
The Kenyan government has arranged to buy an offshore patrol vessel to monitor IUU fishing in the Indian Ocean; something that could now devise an opportunity for Kenya to make back its losses...
Australian Longliners Are Dumping Southern Bluefin
Australian press, Fisho, has reported large numbers of Southern bluefin tuna being dumped by longliners in the east coast region of Australia. Fisho reported 10 tons of SBT being unloaded from...
SFP Questions Sustainability Of 70 Pct of Tuna Stocks
Concern has been aired for the long-term sustainability of all of the main global commercial tuna stocks. The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership’s (SFP) recently released report identifies...
TMI: Loss Of USA–Pacific Tuna Treaty Will Hurt Canneries
Tri Marine International (TMI) is concerned, that if its US seiners can no longer fish in the majority of the Western and Central Pacific region, the competitiveness of its cannery production...
Eco-Safe Tuna Promotes ‘MSC Dolphin-Safe’
The Marine Stewardship Council certification has been publically praised for being open and transparent, while holding certified producers fully accountable. The Campaign for Eco-Safe tuna has...
Can PNA Model Work For Pacific Albacore Nations?
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) plans to adopt similar measures as the PNA in regards to purse seiner members of the Southern albacore fishery. The soon to be, Atafu...
“Red Card” Seiners Still Looking For Alternative Flags
It seems that the reflagging of IUU Belize seiners is proving a lengthy process for some companies. In March this year, the EU ruled that if fishing firms owning Belize flagged vessels wanted...
Will EPO Ban Stop Rising Bigeye Catch?
Starting today, around 50 percent of EPO-operating tuna seiners will cease fishing and return to port, as the first stint of the IATTC fishing ban comes into action. Split over two 60-day...
Robot Vessels To Catch IUU Offenders
Palau plans to make strategic use of a new floating robotic device that patrols the ocean in search of ships with the use of as many as 70 different sensor/electronic functions; a possible...
FIS Comes Back On Dolphin-Safe Pledge
Last week, global seafood industry news site, Fish Information Services (FIS), published a press release on the launch of an anti-EII dolphin-safe program pledge. Without mention of another...
Bad Condition Pacific Bigeye Affects Skipjack
The bigeye tuna stock in the WCPO has now been reduced to less than 20 percent of its unfished stock size. According to the SPC’s new assessments of the status of regional tuna stocks, the...
Pacific Leaders Convene In Palua On Tuna And Climate
The Pacific Islands Forum will hold its 45th summit in Palau from July 29th to August 1st to discuss action towards climate change issues, which may put the Pacific Island nations in serious...
Tuna Doing Much Better On Bycatch Reduction
International NGO, Oceana, has recently released a report detailing the huge bycatch of US fisheries as “hindering the recovery of depleted stocks.” Atuna.com has investigated the current...
NOAA Considers Bluefin Fishing Ban
The US government is planning on taking vital steps to stop bluefin tuna from reaching extinction. The fisheries division of NOAA has announced that it is considering a ban on both...
Solomon Islands’ Focus To Prevent IUU “Yellow Card”
Following the handing of an EU yellow card sanction on IUU fishing to its neighboring country, PNG, the Solomon Islands appears to be making best efforts to prevent meeting a similar fate. In...
EU Gives Ghana And Korea More Time On IUU
It’s been more than half a year since the European Commission handed an IUU warning to three different countries – Ghana, Korea and Curaçao. In November last year, the EC decided that these...
Indonesians Expect Better El Niño Catches
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has announced possible effects El Niño could have on the oceans next month, resulting in promising catches and profits for fishermen...
Composite Boats Future For Out-Dated Vietnam Fishing Fleet
The Vietnamese government has ratified a VND 10 trillion (USD 470.68 million) credit package for Japanese company, Yanmar, to construct 180 composite vessels for local fishermen, though it’s...
Largest Seiner Transshipment Port Getting Too Full
Majuro port, in the capital of the Marshall Islands, is the biggest tuna transshipment port in the Western Pacific, to the point that it is actually become overcrowded with seiners and...