As the WCPFC’s 10th annual meeting reached its half-way point, strong momentum on creating tuna management measures in the Pacific Ocean have been witnessed. Pacific delegates, alongside...
Fishing
American Samoa Calls For Albacore Catch Limit In Cairns
American Samoa has urged the WCPFC to implement strengthened measures to limit the total catch of South Pacific albacore in the Pacific Ocean. The proposal calls for the putting in place of a...
Boatowner Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
INPESCA Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
Ecuadorian Pole And Line Has MSC Ambitions
The Presidents of the Cooperative of Artisanal Fish Production and Rod Fishing of Manta, Augusto Lopez and Christopher Roig, have revealed that the Ecuadorian pole and line tuna fishery is...
Taiwan Biggest Taker Of Overfished Pacific Bigeye
Taiwan has been identified as the nation responsible for fishing the largest volume of the overfished bigeye stock in the Pacific Ocean, with its catch of the species weighing in at nearly...
Mediterranean Platform Created For Artisanal Tuna Fishers
Associations from Morocco and Algeria have signed the manifesto of joining in the first conference of sustainable artisanal fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The meeting was...
Higher Tuna Revenues A Double Edged Sword
Tuna fishing license fees are raking in more revenue in small Pacific countries than was forecast at the beginning of the year, but it’s a double edged sword, as nations are advised that they...
Tuna Companies Sign WWF Pledge On WCPFC
As the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) begins in Cairns, WWF calls for effective and decisive action to ensure efficient measures to end overfishing of tuna are...
WCPFC Making Slow Progress On Bigeye Catch Restrictions
The sweeping changes that the NGO’s are hoping for, to effectively address the overfishing of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean, are making slow progress. Environmental groups have their...
Piriou To Deliver Two New Seiners To Sapmer
The Piriou shipyard in Vietnam will deliver two new tuna purse seiner vessels to major French fishing company, Sapmer, by early 2015. This will take Sapmer’s fleet up to nine vessels, with an...
Mass Starvation Of Birds Related To Tuna?
Lindsay Dines has been watching dead mutton birds wash in at Teewah for more than a month. He knows death is part of their migratory fate. Their long, figure eight of the Pacific that starts...
Philippine Handliners Want Pocket #1 Closed
Philippine tuna handliners have expressed the wish to have the High Seas Pocket 1 closed to the Philippine purse seine tuna fleet. A declaration was signed last week calling on the WCPFC and...
Mozambique Buys 26 Tuna Vessels From France
Mozambique has acquired 26 vessels from France that will be used for catching tuna and coastal patrols. The country’s government intends to renegotiate its fishing agreement with the European...
‘Tuna Is Caught By Other Countries When Left Unharvested’
Complaints of low catch from the sea are not uncommon among Indian fishermen. To ensure more catch from shallow waters throughout the year, the Fishery Survey of India (FSI) has suggested...
Sri Lanka And Chinese To Compete With EU Tuna Fleet In IO
Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Ministry said last week that with the support of China’s big vessels, it was ready to compete with Europe in harvesting the Indian Ocean’s fish resources. Fisheries and...
Hatchery No Competition For Wild Reared Bluefin
Malta has doubled the amount of bluefin tuna it is breading in captivity. Large international fishing companies fish for tuna close to the south of Malta and Libya during the tuna season. The...
SIDS Ready To Defend Joint Position On Tuna
The FFA governing council has decided to renew efforts to ensure that the WCPFC’s founding commitments to Small Islands and Developing States (SIDS), and the sustainable management of tuna...
Fighting IUU To Protect The “Blue Gold”
EU member states were encouraged to take stronger actions against illegal fishing as part of an Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) event in Brussels on November 5th. The meeting was of...
Ghana Seeking Regional Coop To Avoid Being Locked Out Of EU Market
Ghanaian Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Nayon Bilijo, says he is taking steps to avert a looming European Union (EU) sanction on the country’s fishing industry. He said his Ministry is...