Taiwan has once again gained a top position in the US Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report published on June 15. This has raised the ire of several US and Asian NGOs which had been calling for...
Fishing
Bigeye Longline Catch Limits Set For US Pacific Territories
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has allocated bigeye catch limits to longliners in US Pacific territories. The council recommended setting the 2023 catch limits at 2,000 M/T in...
Indian Ocean Bigeye Associate Longest With DFADs
Using acoustic telemetry, scientists have calculated the associative behavior of tagged skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye with drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) in two regions of the...
Italian Police Search In The Dark As Bluefins Are Dumped On Roadsides
The rising number of discarded bluefins on Italian roadsides is putting officials in a tight spot. The tuna, likely from illegal catches and thrown away by perpetrators while trying to escape...
Green Light For Mauritius’ Multi-Million Dollar Tuna Deal With EU
The European Parliament (EP) is set to approve a new fisheries agreement with Mauritius that allows its fleet to fish in Mauritian waters. A majority of members of the EP voted in favor of the...
NIRSA Equips Old Seiner With State-Of-The-Art Bearings
The 1973-built purse seiner ‘El Marquez’ fishing for the vertically-integrated Ecuadorian company, NIRSA, was recently upgraded. It was equipped with polymer propeller shaft seals and...
Fisheries Minister Claims Indonesia Could Become Biggest Tuna Farming Country
Indonesia has high hopes for its aquaculture industry. Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, Minister of Maritime and Fisheries, underlined that it has the potential to become the world’s largest...
Restaurant Sues Boy For Sushi Terrorism And Other Social Media Trends
Sushi terrorism is not without consequences. A Japanese teenager's video of him licking a soy sauce bottle and a teacup before putting it back on the belt of a sushi outlet went viral. The...
Despite Low Fuel Price, WCPO Seiners Feeling Impact Of Overheads
Low international crude oil prices have reduced the value of marine fuel for purse seiners. However, vessel operators are burdened by several overhead costs that have cut into their profits....
Ocean Family Signs Deal To Expand WCPO Seiner Fleet
Chinese fishing company Zhejiang Ocean Family Co. Ltd. and Mawei Shipbuilding closed a deal to build a 76-meter-long purse seiner to sail in the Western Central Pacific Ocean. In 2013, the...
Indonesian Tuna Fishermen Rescued After Eight Days At Sea
Two artisanal fishermen from a village near Bima city were rescued off the coast of South Sulawesi Islands after being declared missing for eight days. The 62-year-old Mahmudi and 56-year-old...
African Crew Strike Cripples French And Spanish Seiners Operations
The operations of French and Spanish seiners fishing in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were hit by a strike of Senegal and Ivory Coast crew members on June 5. Two Unions had called for the...
WCPO MSC Assessment Hints Close Ties Between Sajo Fisheries And Kiribati
The second MSC certification for Itochu Corporation is inching closer to achievement. The TTKV (Chinese Taipei, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu) WCPO skipjack and yellowfin purse seine fishery's...
52-Day Tuna Gillnet Ban Effect In Southern India Disputed
The annual 52-day fishing ban has begun in the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala. Commercial vessels like gillnetters and trollers, used for catching tuna, are not allowed to fish during...
Filipino MSC Fishers Fear VMS Suspensions Affect EU Exports
Tuna fishers in the Philippines are at loggerheads with one another and officials over the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 266, which implements vessel monitoring measures (VMM). In...
Purse Seiner ‘Atlántico’ Finds Its Graveyard
Tuna seiner ‘Atlántico’ has been towed to its final destination to be scrapped at the port of El Mussel in Gijón, Spain, after being moored for eight years in Vigo. The decision was...
Tuna Alliance Albacore Longline Fishery In Its Final Stage Of MSC Certification
Tuna Alliance albacore longline fishery in the Atlantic meets the minimum requirements for being MSC certified, says the CAB, SCS Global Services. The Final Draft Report was published on the...
FiTI Demands Pacific Islands Tuna Fisheries Improve Transparency
A recent report published by the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) indicates the need for more fisheries transparency in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), especially tuna-trade...
Sapmer Seiners Will Be Added To CFTO MSC Certification
The CFTO and Sapmer Indian Ocean Purse Seine skipjack fishery entered assessment to expand its scope to include six Sapmer vessels, three flying the French (La Réunion) flag and three of...
Bangkok Pull Raises Seychelles Skipjack Price
As expected during this season, Indian Ocean tuna captures remained low in May. However, canners in the region are forced to accept a slightly higher price to ensure sufficient supply as Thai...