Thai processors scaled back purchases of frozen whole round tuna from vessels flagged to Oceanian nations, from January to March this year, as prices weakened. Only Micronesian and Papua New...
Fishing
Is Atunsa Going To Take Over Pevasa?
Spanish tuna fishing company Pevasa has been struggling with financial difficulties and a bid from competitor Atunsa to acquire the entire company appears to be on the table. Tuna fishing...
Peru Taps Foreign Fleet To Boost Domestic Tuna Processing
Peru has unveiled a proposal to let foreign vessels harvest tuna in its waters using part of the country’s authorized purse-seine fishing capacity, seeking to increase use of idle potential...
Will IATTC Reduce Annual Tuna Fishing Closure Days?
The IATTC scientific staff has proposed cutting the annual purse seine fishing closure in the convention area, citing an assessment that shows tropical tuna stocks are in a healthy biological...
Kenyan Tuna Fleet Lands Record Haul As Skipjack Returns
Kenya's tuna fleet posted its strongest catch in five years in 2024, driven by a sharp increase in yellowfin, bigeye, and skipjack landings. Kenya submitted its National Report to the IOTC...
Canned Tuna Producers Face Renewed Uncertainty With New US Duties
The US government has imposed additional 10 to 12.5 percent tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners for failure to enforce measures to prohibit goods produced with forced labor. Canned...
EU Risks Losing Key Tuna Foothold In Mauritanian Waters
Spanish tuna fishers are increasingly concerned that the EU-Mauritania Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) will not be renewed before it expires in November, potentially forcing...
Taiwan Leads Longline Fleet Count, China Tops Fish Hold Volume
The world’s biggest longline fleet by vessel count sails under Taiwan’s flag, but China dominates in Fish Hold Volume (FHV), according to a recent ISSF report. The Foundation outlined a set of...
New Zealand’s Fisheries Role Emerges In Tokelau’s VDS Dispute
The termination of Tokelau’s participation in the PNA Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) has rattled the island nation’s tuna-fishing-based economy. A PNA spokesperson attributed the move to New...
Warming Seas Threaten Livelihoods Of Solomon Islands Tuna Fishers
Small-scale fishers in the Solomon Islands say ocean warming is disrupting tuna catches and impacting their livelihoods, with skipjack and yellowfin, their main catches, increasingly shifting...
ISSF Report Finds Fishhold Capacity Heavily Concentrated In Large Longliners
Large-scale longline vessels (above 24 meters) represent only 31 percent of the registered global longline fleet with tuna RFMOs, but concentrate over 86 percent of estimated fishhold...
Nearly Half Of Ecuadorian Fleet Opts For Veda
Nearly 38 percent of the EPO tuna fleet has opted to pause operations during the first phase of purse seine fishery closure from August 6 to October 8. Nearly half of the Ecuadorian fleet has...
Argentina Combats IUU Landings By Ratifying Port State Measures
Argentina's approval of a law to accede to the FAO’s Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) on July 17 marks a significant step in IUU fishing in the southwest Atlantic, a region with...
Shanghai Kaichuang Predicts Net Loss Due To Poor Tuna Operations
Chinese tuna fishing company Shanghai Kaichuang Marine International has forecasted a net loss for the first half of this year due to lower tuna catches and high operating costs. On July 14,...
Global Shark Fin Trade: Markets, Suppliers & Role in Tuna Longline Economics
The global shark fin trade remains one of the most valuable seafood by-product markets, despite tighter regulations and declining demand in some traditional consuming countries. This has...
European Groups Push EU For Tighter Fishing Crew Safety And Training Standards
A group of European fishing industry employers and workers’ representatives urged the EU to make international fishing crew training standards legally binding across all of its member states....
Trump Defies Pacific Opposition With First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale
The US government recently announced a proposed deep-sea mining lease sale in waters near American Samoa, marking the world’s first attempt to mine the deep sea commercially. If approved, the...
Human Rights Groups Call For US Investigation Into Missing Ecuadorian Fishers
Six months after the Ecuadorian-flagged tuna longliner ‘Fiorella’ and most of its crew went missing, major human rights groups have called upon the US Congress to investigate the incident. Two...
OPAGAC Sets Stage For Biennial National Tuna Congress
The future competitiveness of the European tuna fleet amid mounting regulatory pressure will dominate discussions at OPAGAC's seventh biennial National Tuna Congress, which will be held in...
Tuvalu Seizes Chinese Longliner In Rampant IUU Fishing Probe
The Tuvalu Police operating from a Sea Shepherd patrol vessel detained a Chinese longliner over multiple alleged fisheries violations and suspected IUU fishing. Experts pointed out that the...