An event that kick-started in Mexico earlier this week has brought together women entrepreneurs, who run various tuna and seafood businesses to discuss how to grow the sector together. The...
Fishing
Indonesian IO Tuna Catches Reached Peak In 2023
The volume of tuna caught by Indonesian-flagged vessels in the Indian Ocean (IO) in 2023 hit record in over 70 years. Skipjack was the main catch followed by yellowfin, bigeye, and albacore....
Tuna Or Deep-Sea Mining? Choose tuna
-VIEWPOINT- The nascent deep-sea mining industry shares notable similarities with the tuna industry: both rely on extracting natural resources (copper, nickel, cobalt, and other metals needed...
IOTC Raises 2025 Yellowfin Quotas By Small Margin
The IOTC has slightly increased the volumes of yellowfin that fishing fleets can catch in the Indian Ocean for 2025. This news comes on the heels that the scientists declared that IO yellowfin...
Chances Of High Tuna Catches In Pacific Ocean In 2025 Are Slim
Purse seine owners operating their vessels in the EPO and WCPO clearly benefited from the high skipjack catches in these regions last year. This also helped boost the business of Thai and...
Indonesia Establishes Stricter Rules For Tuna & Other Fishers’ Qualifications
The Indonesian government is acting to ensure that tuna and other seafood fishing crews on Indonesian-flagged small and industrial vessels have adequate expertise in their job and are...
Tuna Fishing Crew Safety A Priority For Vietnamese Govt
Vietnam wants to ensure the safety of its fishers working on tuna and other seafood vessels by introducing new rules and regulations. The government asserted that several shortcomings need to...
NOAA Proposes New US Pacific Bluefin Quota In EPO
NOAA has announced new regulations for the Pacific bluefin according to the latest conservation measure adopted by the IATTC in September. The proposed rule would implement annual and trip...
North Pacific Albacore Catches In 2023 Hit Decade-Low
The albacore stock in the North Pacific Ocean (NPO) is healthy but catches hit a 10-year low in 2023, the International Scientific Committee (ISC) recently said. The drop in landings by the US...
French Polynesian Longline Volumes Rose Dramatically Over 5 Years
French Polynesia has a small national tuna fleet that comprises longliners and artisanal vessels that mainly catch albacore. Over the past five years, they have increased their catches by a...
Parts Of Colombian Tuna Seiner Recovered, Fishers Still Missing
The Ecuadorian Navy is searching extensively for the 21 fishermen who were on the Colombian-flagged tuna seiner 'Patricia Lynn' which went missing on December 21 while fishing off the Manta...
Maldivian Economy Impacted From Poor Tuna Sector’s Performance
The purchase of pole-and-line tuna by domestic processors declined by 44.9 percent up to November in 2024 according to the latest Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) report. The consequences for...
US West Coast Governors Request Aid For Suffering Albacore Fishers
US governors on the West Coast want government aid to help the ailing albacore fishing sector. They called for a federal fishery disaster to support communities reliant on the industry after...
Uncertainty Over 17 Crew Members After Contact With Seiner Lost
Colombia-flagged purse seiner 'Patricia Lynn' disappeared from the radar on the night of December 21. Family and authorities fear for the fate of its 17 crew members, mostly citizens of Manta,...
Japanese Fisher Who Caught Most Expensive Bluefin Dead After Boat Capsized
Two Japanese fishermen lost their lives last week when they were fishing for bluefin ahead of the auction at the Toyosu market to be held next month. The captain, 70-year-old Ryoichi Fujieda,...
Ex-Fishermen From Seatech Resume Protest To Be Heard
Former workers of Colombia-based Seatech International protested for the second time on December 16. The producer of canned tuna brand Van Camps is accused of late payment and exclusion of...
NOAA Announces Changes To Magnuson-Stevens Act
The US is gearing up to make some changes to the existing regulations of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, crucial to the management of tuna and other fisheries within national waters. The final rule...
Year In Review
2024 is coming to a close and what a year it has been for the global tuna industry. The Red Sea Crisis pushed freight prices to the peak in April hindering canned tuna trade but the delayed...
PNG Ports Handled Largest Transshipments In November
Transshipments in PNA ports dropped in November despite increased catches that month. Most of the activity was carried out in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ports. A total of 75,200 tons of tuna were...
Cook Islands Tuna Fleet Captures Dropped In 2023
The tuna catches of Cook Islands' industrial domestic fleet – comprising longliners and purse seiners – plummeted in 2023. Climate variations linked to El Niño and absence of chartered vessels...