Boats encountering orcas or killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar have become almost commonplace. In the past five years, around 700 incidents have been reported. The endangered and...
Fishing
Adjudicator Rules In Favor, PNA Recertified For Another 5 Years With FAD Sets
After a lengthy and costly battle, the world’s largest purse seine tuna fishery PNA has been allowed to display its sustainable logo for an additional five years. Last week, the independent...
Tori Lines Does Not Work For Shallow-Set Longline Fishery
The results of the tori line experiment on Hawaiian longliners to mitigate albatross bycatch were discussed in the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and...
Filipino Tuna Fishers Continue Fight Against Employer For Withholding Wages
The tuna fishermen, who were abandoned by their employer in an American port, are fighting tooth and nail to receive their wages despite the many hurdles ahead in their path. The group,...
Rio Grande Do Norte Tuna Fishing Sector Is In Dire Need Of Revamp
Rio Grande Do Norte in Brazil has one of the largest tuna fishing sectors in the country. But several gaps need to be addressed so that it can thrive and generate more revenue for the national...
Spanish Tuna Vessels Seeking Foreign Crew Want Relaxation Of Rules
Spanish tuna and other fishing companies are seeking foreign crew to work on their vessels due to the current lack of manpower. Shipowner's associations and workers' commissions pointed out...
Europêche Applauds Tighter Fishing Regulations For Non-EU Nations
Europêche, the voice of the European fishing industry, has welcomed the European Commission’s (EC) proposal designed to combat unsustainable tuna and other seafood fishing practices by non-EU...
WCPO Purse Seiners Mainly Netted Medium-Sized Skipjack In 2023
Purse seiners fishing in the WCPO caught larger tuna in the eastern part of the ocean in 2023. In terms of skipjack, vessels mainly netted medium-sized fish while slightly larger fish were...
Solomon Islands Bina Harbor Project Breaking Ground?
The Solomon Islands government approved a business plan for the project that assumes a USD 202 million investment for port infrastructures and utilities such as water and power supply....
EU Pushes For Tighter Tuna Fishing Regulations For Third-World Countries
The EU Commission has proposed a revision of the tools designed to address unsustainable fishing practices by non-EU countries on tuna and other fish stocks. It aims to improve the clarity and...
Hawaiian Longliners Caught More Tuna In 2023 But Revenue Dropped
Hawaii fisheries showed a slight increase in tuna catches compared to 2022, but the ex-vessel revenue declined. The recently released Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council...
Ecuadorian Tuna Fishery Scripts History By Receiving Fair Trade Certification
A group of Ecuadorian pole-and-line fishers, the Asociacion Caneros de Manta, was awarded an international Fair Trade Certification for their tuna catches last month. It is the first...
Rio Grande Do Norte High-Quality Tuna Exports Dropped In H1
Rio Grande do Norte is the third largest tuna exporting state in Brazil. In the first six months of this year, companies in this region shipped 456.65 tons of sashimi quality products at a...
Calls For Regulation Grow As Faux Thon Crisis Deepens
Some Ivory Coast’s fishing organizations sounded the alarm last week because the faux thon sector is in a critical situation. The presidential decree to limit prices was not followed up...
American Samoa Longliners Experienced Reduced Tuna Landings In 2023
The landings of American Samoa-flagged longliner albacore catches, its main target species, witnessed a drop in 2023 thus affecting the island nation’s fishing revenue. Vessels took fewer...
Determined Mako Shark Sticks To Tuna And Other Social Media Stories
The video of a mako shark biting into a tuna and not letting it go while fishers try to bring it onboard is turning heads on YouTube. The incident that happened off the coast of San Diego was...
New Japanese Inshore Tuna Seiner Launched
A newly built inshore purse seiner in Japan, the ‘Daihachi Koyo Maru’ departed from the port of Sakaiminato City last week. It has improved hull stability and speed compared to an older vessel...
NOAA Puts Forth Expansion Plan For US Tuna Fisheries Electronic Reporting
US federal agency NOAA announced a fisheries proposal on electronic reporting last week which could be introduced at the beginning of next year in the Greater Atlantic and Southeast regions of...
American Samoa Wants More Clarity On ELAPS Seiner Rule Change
American Samoa has once again expressed the economic impact of the updated Effort Limit Area for Purse Seine (ELAPS) rule for the US seiner fleet. Taotasi Archie Soliai, the Director of Marine...
EPO Seiner Fleets Pass Record 2023 Skipjack Catches Already In July
Purse seiners fishing in the EPO have caught extraordinary volumes of skipjack. By July, they had already surpassed the entire 2023 volume. This is astonishing as last year these vessels...