Philippine-flagged vessels netted nearly 12 percent less tuna and tuna-like species in 2021, indicating a downward trend in the catches of these fishes in the past three years, according to...
Fishing
Echebastar’s Super-Frozen Tuna Production Keeps Growing
Over the years, the Spanish fishing company, Echebastar, has managed to increase its super-frozen yellowfin production. In 2021, it reached 3,000 M/T and this volume is expected to rise to...
NOAA Investigated Climate Change Impact On Albacore Fishing
NOAA, the US national science agency, is working with scientists to explore the potential impacts of climate change on West Coast fisheries, which includes albacore, in the Future Seas...
Indonesia Seizes Local Vessels For IUU Fishing
One foreign-flagged boat and 21 Indonesian-flagged vessels were seized for IUU fishing by the Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. This came about from the surveillance...
Oman Objects To Its Vessels Being On IOTC’s IUU List
After ICCAT blacklisted three Omani-flagged longliners in December for illegal fishing, these vessels have ended up on the IOTC IUU list. This week, Omani authorities sent a letter to the...
PNG FIA Wants To Join The Crew Safety Bandwagon With FISH Standard
Crew safety has become one of the most talked-about issues in the fishing industry in the last couple of years. Boat owners and organizations looking to stand out from the pack and take a step...
Albacora Expands Tuna Fishing Operations With Tanzania Deal
Albacora is expanding its overseas tuna operations and has registered its subsidiary, Pemba Tuna Limited, in Tanzania. The Spanish tuna fishing company will also help train local sailors and...
10-Year International Fishers Safety Treaty Still Far From Implementation
The Cape Town Agreement (CTA) has been ratified by Kenya, bringing the list of countries supporting the initiative to 17. Despite the pact being formed a decade ago, this is still distant from...
WCPO Transshipment Volumes Took A Big Drop In February
Fewer loads of tuna were transshipped in PNA ports in February following a fall in overall catches by purse seiners in the Western Central Pacific region. Transshipment volumes fell by 23...
PNG Industry Wants Deep Cuts In VDS Tuna License Fees
The PNG Fishing Industry Association (FIA) wants the country's fishing policies to be revised so that domestic seiners can get cheaper VDS days. Otherwise, PNG's economy will be negatively...
Japanese Longliner On Fire, Four Crew Members Missing
A Japanese-flagged tuna longliner caught fire 185 kilometers southeast off the coast of the island of Tanegashima on March 21. The vessel, ‘Yujinmaru No. 51’, had a crew of eight fishermen on...
WCPO Catches Declined In February After Slight Recovery
In the WCPO waters, purse seine captains caught less tuna in February. This was partly due to slightly less fishing effort deployed during this time, although, skipjack and yellowfin daily...
Sovereign Guarantee Of 11.3 Million EUR For Tuna Cannery In Angola
The President of Angola, João Lourenço, has approved a state guarantee loan so that the company Alva Fishing can build a canned tuna processing plant in the country. The project was...
Ripple Effect Of Diesel Shortage Hits Tuna Sector
The war in Eastern Europe has thrown global commodity markets into turmoil and crude oil and other refined products such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, LPG, and biofuels have all been strongly...
ISSF: Global Tuna Supply Shrank By 10 Percent In 2020
Global catches of tuna have kept increasing in recent years reaching record-breaking volumes. However, 2020 represented a year-on-year decrease although the level was still among the all-time...
Sicily Wants To Preserve Bluefin ‘Tonnare’
In Sicily, Italy, a new governmental initiative was recently launched to promote the dissemination, especially among young people, of knowledge about tuna and the many “Tonnare” (Italian...
Vast Industrial Fishing Activity In “Blue Hole” High Seas
Greenpeace has said that there is a vast fleet of industrial fishing vessels plundering in the high seas of the South Atlantic. It has strongly urged the UN along with world governments to...
ISSF: Healthy Tuna Stocks On The Decline
The level of healthy tuna stocks around the world is dropping according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Tuna species in the biggest catching area, the WCPO,...
RFMOs Need Clear Procedures Over VMS Malfunction
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation recently published a report identifying the vessel monitoring systems (VMS) used by tuna and other seafood RFMOs. The document also explores...
Seafood Watch Adds IO Yellowfin To Red List
The American-based program Seafood Watch has added yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) among its red-listed species. Recently, at the Boston Seafood Expo, the Maldivian Minister of Fisheries,...