The current fishing season has been expensive for Spanish pole-and-line vessels targeting Bonito del norte and EU-flagged boats catching bluefin. Fuel prices in June once again increased in...
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No Appetite For Tuna Fishing Licenses In Bay of Bengal
Companies continue to lack interest in tuna fishing in the Bay of Bengal citing the fish is seasonal and the high investment needed for acquiring vessels. Since April 2016, 17 firms have been...
Polluted Ghanaian Coastal Waters Are Hurting Local Tuna Industry
The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) was established to improve the country's tuna sector and has now turned its attention to ocean pollution. Richster Nii Amarah Amarfio, Secretary of GTA, called...
Oman Blacklists IUU Tuna Longliners
In a complete turnabout, Oman has struck off three Omani-flagged longliners from its registry. In March, the country objected IOTC placing ‘ISRAR 1’, ‘ISRAR 2’ and ‘ISRAR 3’ on the RFMO’s IUU...
Still One-Third Of EPO Skipjack Sets Is On Free Schools, But Less Productive
Although most of the skipjack in the EPO is caught with FADs, close to a third of the 2021 volume was captured on free school sets. Meanwhile, seiner operators' use of FAD sets...
Continued High Carrier Volumes, But Half Of June’s Catch Still Unloaded
Purse seiners operating in the WCPO maximized their efforts on all their FADs before the ban kicked in, but carrier loadings in June at PNA ports declined from their peak level the month...
Costa Rica Passes Law Expanding No Purse Seine Fishing Zone
A new regulation prioritizing Costa Rican vessels over foreign tuna fleets has been approved by the country's parliament. The Legislature passed a bill to increase the area prohibited for...
Almadraba Closes With Record Catch
The Spanish traditional bluefin catching method in the Mediterranean, the Almadraba, concluded with a record-breaking catch of 2,330 M/T. The fishing season has officially ended after two and...
Massive Seiner Fishing Activity In PNG Waters During June
Many WCPO purse seine captains have been concentrating their fishing operations in the west of the Pacific by setting their nets in Papua New Guinea's waters and the high seas in June. This...
How Long Does It Take For Tuna To Gather Around A DFAD?
Using echo sounder buoys data and machine learning, Spanish scientists aimed to capture the general trends in tuna aggregation dynamics on a global scale. They found that the time for the fish...
IO Bullet Tuna Catches Way Over Average Limit
The average annual catches of bullet tuna (Auxis rochei) - a tuna-like species - in the Indian Ocean (IO) need to decrease, according to scientists. Although there is insufficient data on this...
PEW Calculates EM Will Bring USD 200 Million Extra Benefits To Longliners
The large-scale adoption of electronic monitoring (EM) technology can greatly benefit the tuna longline fishery concluded a recent study on Sea Change Economics funded by The Pew...
Uncertainty Over IO Frigate Tuna Stock Is A Cause For Worry
IOTC scientists are worried about frigate tuna (Auxis thazard) as there is currently insufficient data from member countries on the stock found in the Indian Ocean, which makes it difficult to...
Japan Might Have to Say Goodbye To Katsuo
Katsuo (skipjack) is an indispensable component of Japanese cuisine. However, it is feared it will move away from Japanese waters due to climate change. Fishermen in Kochi - one of the most...
Thousands Of Spanish Fishing Jobs Hanging By A Thread
On Thursday, Europêche sent out a strongly worded statement that the EU’s margin of tolerance rule threatens the French tuna seiner fleet with extinction by 2026 and that the Spanish are next...
China Wants Access To Tuna-Rich Somali Waters
China wants access to Somalia’s rich tuna fishing grounds for its distant water fleet (DWF) and several Chinese officials recently held an online symposium regarding trade between the two...
Houses Raided In USD 1 Million Tuna Scam
On July 12, teams from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted simultaneous raids on six locations, including three residences of Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammed Faizal in...
Mexican Initiator Of Dolphin Case Against US Passed Away
The defender of the Mexican tuna fleet in the long-running dolphin-safe dispute with the US, Alfonso Rosiñol Lliteras, passed away last week at the age of 74. As President of the Chamber of...
Biggest Of Some Of The Lesser Known Tuna Species
Previously, Atuna reported on the biggest among the larger Thunnini. It is time to take a look at record catches of some tuna species of lesser interest. Out in Tanzania, a dogtooth was reeled...
Bangkok Skipjack Price At A Turning Point?
Buyers in the Bangkok skipjack trading market are trying to make the right purchasing decisions for the coming month. The value per ton is holding steady while sentiment is beginning to turn...