Seven Vietnamese tuna fishermen are facing deportation after they were sued for poaching in waters 16 nautical miles from Subic town in the Philippines. The local court has ordered their...
Fishing
Longlining As Solution For Bottom Trawl And Imprisonment
Deep sea longline tuna fishing has been offered as a solution for the long-running tuna war between Indian and Sri Lankan fishing. In a memorandum to Indian Prime Minister, Narenda Modi, the...
Minister Threatens Sanctions For Ghana IUU Vessels
A warning of a total ban in fish products exported from Ghana to the EU has urged the country’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister, Nayon Bilijo, to threaten with sanctions forany local...
Can Mexican Yellowfin Get MSC? What Did You Think?
A strong majority opinion has emerged from our latest atuna.com homepage poll, with a high percentage of subscribers believing that the Mexican yellowfin fisheries are able to obtain MSC...
Mexican Firms Now Losing Millions On “Dolphin Safe” Embargo In EU
The effects of the trade embargo promoted by the United States is coming at a high price for Mexican tuna companies. Carranza Leovigild Beltran, President of Pinsa Group, with the largest...
Too Many Purse Seiners Wipes Out Efficiency Gain
Increases in the global fishing capacity appear to be counteracting technological innovations that have improved the efficiency of modern vessels. Suggested by new data, as the purse seine...
How Much Fuel Is Needed To Catch 2.7 Million M/T Of Tuna?
Together these vessels landed as much as 2.7 million tons of tuna in 2009, but how much fuel does the global tuna purse seine fleet burn over a year in order to make these volumes possible?...
Steep Hike Of Bangkok Skipjack Price
The Bangkok skipjack price is getting even healthier, as it continues its climb of recovery on the atuna.com Market Price Watch. Witnessing a strong 10.71 percent upsurge since May 22nd, the...
Ghana And Seychelles To Support Each Others Plants
An agreement has been signed by Seychelles and Ghana to allow the two nations to top-up each other’s tuna exports to the EU. The deal gives permission for the countries that both have tuna...
Wild Fish The Most Volatile Global Commodity
According to a graph presented by Audun Lem, Ph.D Branch Chief of the Trade Information and Marketing division of the FAO, wild fish ranks as the most volatile commodities traded globally. He...
Record Bluefin Catches In Spain: Call For Higher Quotas
Record 2014 Bluefin catches in several fisheries are reported in Spain by MAGRAMA, the Spanish General Secretariat of Fisheries of theMinistry of Agriculture, Food and Environment....
Work Starts On Super Seiner Tuna Port
Work to build a new tuna quay to reduce unloading time of especially large purse seiners and to relieve congestion in the Seychelles Port of Victoria is starting soon following the...
French Have High Hopes As Their Bluefin Season Starts
Following reports of record bluefin catches by the Spanish fleet over the last month, fishermen in the south of France are hoping to cash in on recovering bluefin tuna stocks in the...
FAD Fishing Is Becoming Less Energy Efficient
A scientific study recently published in the Journal of Cleaner Production titled “Fuel performance and carbon footprint of the global purse seine tuna fleet has looked at the presumed high...
“Cheap” Tuna Hits Sanford’s First Half Profit
Low tuna prices are one of the reasons Sanford believes its latest six month profit level has dropped by a significant 17 percent year on year. New Zealand’s largest listed seafood company...
Industry Has “Selective Deafness” On Overcapacity
Addressing the floor at the World Tuna Conference in Bangkok, Glenn Hurry, Executive Director of the WCPFC, presented his thoughts on the tuna industry’s “selective deafness” on overcapacity....
Indian Tuna Industry Looks At New Government For Support
With showing little or no major development in its tuna fisheries over the last decade, local fishermen keep pointing at the government and asking for more incentives. With a new government...
Tuna Fleet In Middle Of Rising Territorial Tensions
Summer is always the best time for a big catch in the deep-sea fishing areas of Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys) archipelagos. Despite China’s illegal placement of the Haiyang...
Ten Day Hunt By Navies On Pacific IUU Vessels
Last Friday evening the annual 10 day joint hunt by several navies for IUU vessels, in the South Pacific under the code name Operation Tui Moana (OPTM14) came to an end. The hunt covered a...
FADs Alter Skipjack Movements During El Nino
With changes of over 65% of a new El Nino period starting in the coming months, the movement of skipjack tuna might be differently affected as scientists previously thought. Until recently...