United States-based Anova Foods has been praised last week for its efforts to promote sustainable fishing practices. US Secretary of State, John Kerry, toured some of the company’s operations...
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Today’s “Record Tuna Prices”, Still 50 % Below 1980 Level
“Record European tuna prices” are actually around 50 percent lower than at the beginning of the industrial tuna fishing in 1980. As inflation in Spain has rocketed around 275 percent...
Setting Nets On More Tuna, ISSF’s Solution To FAD By-catch?
ISSF sponsored research has made a connection between school size, by-catch and FADs when fishing for tuna. A study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Scientists...
Spanish Tuna Boat Owners Want Tax Rebate And Aid
Spanish fishing Confederation, Cepesca, is requesting state aid of 29 million euros (USD 39.2 million) for the operation of tuna and other fishing vessels outside the EU and the further...
Chinese Reconfirm Stop On Tuna Purse Seine Building
Chinese authorities have reconfirmed a stop on further construction of tuna purse seine vessels since September this year. The Economic and Trade Section of the People’s Republic of China...
Fishermen Pick Up Dropped MSC By Alaskan Salmon Processors
As 27 Alaskan salmon processing companies drop their commitment to the MSC certification, fishermen and buyers are urging them to continue producing the sustainable accredited salmon....
Indonesia Starts Researching World’s Largest Tuna Catch
A paused tuna research project that studies the biological growth of tuna, its migratory routes and hatchery methods is due to restart at the Central Research Center for Marine Aquaculture in...
Targeting EPO Yellowfin As Solution To Falling Catches
A project to enhance the tuna catches of fishermen in the Caldera region of Chile will target yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO). Caldera fishermen met with the Regional...
Spanish Captain Gets Six Months Jail Over Seiner Crash
The Captain of the Spanish tuna seiner, Almadraba Uno, Wednesday received a six month jail sentence following the collision of the vessel with rocks off the coast of Senegal. The ship ran...
Canada’s Bluefin Fishery Down To 15 Boats
The second phase of the fishing season for the Prince Edward Island, Canada’s bluefin tuna fishery, opened on Friday with individual tags issued to only 57 of the 359 strong tuna fleet....
Philippine Industry Wants Tuna Lobby Group
The tuna industry has made an urgent call to Malacañang to establish the Philippine Committee for the Advancement of Highly Migratory Fisheries (PCAHMF) as a lobby group to defend the...
EU Parliament OK’s Tuna Fishing Deal With Mauritania
On Tuesday, the European Parliament approved the ratification of the fisheries agreement between the EU and Mauritania. The deal allows for the fishing activity of 14 tuna seiners, seven pole...
Hawaiians Worried About Price Effect Of Reduction Bigeye Quota
Bigeye tuna lovers in Hawaii could face a price hike for fresh sashimi and poke in 2014 due to a proposal that would place a limit on the catch of the species for the Hawaiian longline fleet....
Ecuador Skipjack Catches Show Strong Increases Despite Ban
Tuna catch by the Ecuadorian fleet in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) has risen a considerable eight percent when comparing January to September this year with the same months in 2012. Total...
Spain Requests An Increase In Bluefin Quotas
The Spanish General Secretariat of Fisheries confirmed the recovery of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic and Mediterranean oceans at the ICCAT Scientific Committee meeting in Madrid last...
New Net Which Releases Small Fish ‘Future Of Fishing’?
A new way to catch fish alive and unharmed, secretly developed in Nelson and unveiled yesterday, could revolutionize the New Zealand fishing industry and take hold around the world, Seafood...
Firming Bolton – Tri Marine Alliance Step To New Acquisitions?
The Bolton Group, Europe’s largest branded tuna company, has last night announced its purchase of a stake in Tri Marine International, a world leader in the global tuna industry. Bolton...
Decreasing Yellowfin Sizes Affecting Tuna Prices
A significant drop in the quantity of big yellowfin tuna being caught by the fishermen of Vizag, India, has hit profits. Handline fishermen are increasingly hooking smaller yellowfin....
BREAKING NEWS: Bolton Group Buys Part Of Tri Marine
Bolton Group International and Tri Marine announced yesterday that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Bolton Group of an important minority interest in Tri...
EII On-board Observers, Ghosts?
A “heated discussion” took place at the recent Solomon Island’s Pacific Tuna Forum, questioning Earth Island Institute (EII) about its self-claimed vessel monitoring Program. In his...