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Tax Benefits Driving Spanish Tuna Fishers Away?
Tuna crews in Spain's Canary Islands are choosing to work for vessels flagged to other countries. The talent drain has been attributed mainly to a Spanish policy that provides income tax...
Tuna Fishing Around Japanese Island Hit By Rock Problem
Volcanic rocks are creating havoc for the tuna sector at Okinawa Island in southwestern Japan. Massive amounts of pumice stones have drifted ashore and this has been hampering tuna fishing....
Purse Seiner Operators Facing The Highest Fuel Cost In More Than 1 Yr
Global oil prices have once again climbed over USD 80 per barrel, continuing the trend of such high values for energy throughout the year. WCPO purse seiner owners are now facing peak fuel...
Tuvalu & Other Tuna Rich Nations Demand Climate Change Action
As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) meeting is currently ongoing, one Tuvalu Minister has given his speech while standing in the ocean. Pacific island governments have been demanding...
French Longliners Accused Of IUU Fishing In Vanuatu
Three French tuna longliners have been accused of fishing illegally in Vanuatu's waters by the country’s Prime Minister (PM), Bob Loughman. He expressed his disappointment in a letter to the...
French Polynesia Forces Chinese Firm To Pay For Stranded Longliner
The hard stance that French Polynesia took by impounding a Chinese tuna longliner has worked. Two weeks ago, the country’s authorities seized ‘Ping Tai Rong 316’ after the owner of the vessel,...
Atlantic Albacore Fishery Recommended To Preserving MSC Again
The conformity assessment body (CAB) of the North Atlantic Albacore Artisanal fishery, Bureau Veritas, has officially recommended its MSC recertification in the Final Draft Report which was...
IUU Fishing Vessels In PNG Mainly Misreport
Most of the infringements by tuna fishing vessels in PNG have to do with underreporting rather than being illegal, according to National Fisheries Authority’s (NFA) Deputy Managing Director,...
EU To Check On Vietnam’s Progress On Yellow Card Warnings
In the first quarter of 2022, the yellow card that the EU handed to Vietnam due to its poor efforts to fight IUU fishing could be removed. The country’s Deputy General Director of the...
OPAGAC FAD Fleet Close To Getting EPO Juvenile YF Catch MSC Certified
The ambitions of a part of the Spanish-owned purse seiner fleet grouped under OPAGAC of getting MSC certifications simultaneously for its tuna catches in four oceans is close to becoming a...
EU Catch Distribution In IO and AO Shows New Decreasing Trend In Bigeye
The catch spatial distribution of the EU seiner fleet over the past 30 years in the Indian and Atlantic oceans shows relative stability. This is part of the conclusions of a paper presented at...
Ecuador’s Seiner Owners Want WCPO Fleets To Follow Same Rules As Them
A group of boat owners in Ecuador is advocating for the harmonization of the international fishing standards in the entire Pacific. Their association, Protuna, claims that many of the strict...
Galapagos Reserve To Increase By 50% Under Debt For Conservation Swap
The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, announced that the country will increase the protected area of the Galapagos Marine Reserve by almost 50 percent. The initiative is a debt for...
New Association To Improve Tuna Trade In Ghana
A new association that will help improve tuna trade in Ghana has been inaugurated and a Fisheries official has appealed to the new organization to help support the government’s fight to combat...
New Research Will Help Reduce Uncertainties In Bluefin Stock Assessment
New research will help the management of Atlantic bluefin and especially determine the mixing rate of the eastern and western species so that stock assessments can be improved. The National...
Nirsa Sets New Record For Its Fleet’s Tuna Catches
The growth in captures made by vessels owned by Nirsa, Ecuador’s leading tuna processing and exporting company, continued during 2020. The increase supplied the vast majority of the firm’s...
IO Yellowfin At Its Smallest In The last 70 Years
The average size of yellowfin caught in the Indian Ocean (IO) hit its lowest level in 70 years in 2020. Meanwhile, a new record was set for the most specimens taken out of the ocean. This is...
Should All Fishing Vessels Be Registered In The RFMOs?
RFMOs heavily rely on data submitted by their member states. However, countries are not obligated to submit certain information. For example, in the WCPFC convention area, vessels that are...
Hawaii Longline Association Wants MSC In WCPFC And IATTC
The Hawaiian longline tuna fishery has started the assessment for MSC certification. The process, which will be overseen by Control Union (UK) Limited, involves 141 vessels fishing yellowfin...