Spain will be requesting a 14 percent increase on its Atlantic bluefin tuna quota at the upcoming annual ICCAT meeting, starting November 18. The Cape Town hosted discussion will see Spain ask...
Fishing
Ematum, Mozambique’s New State-Owned Tuna Fishing Company
New state-owned tuna company, Ematum, yielded 8.5 percent on the sale of Mozambique’s first dollar bond of USD 500 million for a seven-year issue. The proceeds will go towards the expansion of...
Larger S-Bluefin Quotas For Japan And Taiwan
Larger catch quotas for southern bluefin tuna have been granted to Taiwan and Japan for next year. Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency announced that after two years under strict regulations under an...
Descendants Of The Bounty Mutineers To Ban Tuna Fishing
On land, nature reserves are ten a penny. About one-sixth of the earth’s land surface is protected in one way or another. Reserves at sea are much scarcer, covering, at most, 3%. But a...
Video Gives Insight In the High Tech War On IUU Tuna
Operation Kurukuru, a surveillance system operation designed to tackle illegal fishing throughout the Pacific, has produced results that could have the potential to lead to prosecution...
Could Echebastar Gain MSC For Tuna Fishery Despite FADs?
The Echebastar Indian Ocean tuna fleet is under full assessment for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification despite RFMO data revealing substantial rates of fishing on FADs in...
Purse Seine Fleets Hold “The Power”
The longline tuna fleet has become subject to increased regulations including potential cuts in its bigeye tuna fishing limit and the proposal of on board video monitoring in the Western and...
DWN’s Subsidize But Call For Reduction At Same Time
Concerns surrounding continued subsidization of tuna fishing have been raised by the Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association (PITIA). The association believes that state grants to the...
WCP Tuna Fleet Size Spinning Out Of Control
Concerns about more tuna vessels entering Pacific waters are rising among Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Leaders. The tuna fishing industry in the region is failing to meet...
Pacific Nations Want Financial Compensation If Forced To Shut Tuna Fisheries
Pacific tuna fisheries that could be forced to close early because of catch quotas in the region say they want financial compensation. Member countries of the Western and Central Pacific...
XPRIZE Commits To Three New Ocean XPRIZEs By 2020
As global leader in incentivized prize competitions, XPRIZE, has announced a large commitment to launch three new ocean XPRIZEs by 2020 as part of its XPRIZE Ocean initiative. The new...
Bad Skipjack Catch Results Hit Sanford Profit
New Zealand’s largest listed fishing company, Sanford has had its profits hit by bad catch results in the Pacific skipjack tuna fishery. Combined with the high costs of operating its tuna...
WCPFC Considers On-Board Video Monitoring On 3000 Longliners
The use of electronic video monitoring on 3,000 Pacific longline tuna vessels could become an alternative to on-board observers. With a substantial portion of the longline tuna fleet lacking...
ISSF Commits To Resolution On Dongwon IUU By End 2013
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has confirmed that it will have a final resolution to an ongoing investigation into Dongwon IUU fishing allegations by the end of...
7 African Countries Get Together On Battling IUU Fishing
Seven African countries are joining forces to battle IUU fishing off the eastern coast of the continent, particularly surrounding the Horn of Africa. The taskforce for sustainable fisheries...
“What’s The Catch?” Online Gaming For Tuna Captains
New online game, “What’s the Catch?”, allows players to captain their own vessel and experience the ups and downs of commercial fishing. By-catch avoidance, market price fluctuation and...
GE Sells High Power Purse seiner Engines To Dongwon
GE Marine has announced the sale of two 16V250 marine diesel engines to Korean based Dongwon Industries, one of the world’s largest tuna fishing companies. The sale was made at the Kormarine...
Tuna Seiner Auxiliary “Explorer Tres” Rescues 10 Crew From Sinking Vessel
Tuna seiner auxiliary, ‘Explorer Tres’ has rescued ten crew members from the longline vessel ‘Rías Baixas Un’ that began to sink around 700 miles of the coast of Dakar, Senegal. The...
“US Should Not Accept Proposed 45 Pct Cut On Bigeye”
The United States is being urged not to accept a proposed 45 percent cut in the bigeye tuna limit for the Hawaii longline fishery. The Hawaiian based Western Pacific Regional Fishery...
“Albacora And OPAGAC Should Come Clean On IUU Incidents”
Greenpeace is demanding that tuna vessel owner Albacora S.A. and its fishing association OPAGAC come clean on IUU incidents and settlements that they have been involved in. The environmental...