English fishermen are at loggerheads with the French with the former saying that a French commercial fishing vessel has illegally fished one ton of bluefin in Jersey Island’s waters. The...
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Drop in MGO Fuel Costs Some Relief For Seiner Owners
Purse seine operators can take a breather as fuel costs have declined slightly despite the latest rise in global oil prices. Oil prices rally across the world in the first half of the year hit...
Fiji Govt Green Lights Subsidies For Fleet Upgrade
The Fijian government has announced its intention to help grow the country's fishing industry with loans and subsidies. In particular, these will focus on upgrading the country’s tuna fleet....
Marshall Islands To Pick Up Pace On Vaccines For Tuna Crews
Marshall Islands will continue vaccinating foreign fishing crews after the work was paused as the Pacific nation had to inoculate its own citizens, especially those in more remote locations....
Philippines Seiner Fleet Has Huge Support Vessel Network In WCPO
The purse seine fleet of the Philippines in the WCPO expanded in 2020 but each seiner seems on average to have also at least two support vessels, which is an exceptional situation. The rapidly...
IATTC Hopes To Reach Tuna Conservation Measures One More Time
Members of the IATTC are once again set to debate tropical tuna conservation measures for the next three years. During the past meetings, countries were unable to agree on the best ways to...
Yvon Riva Set To Leave Orthongel After Chairing For Over Two Decades
The French association of frozen tuna producers Orthongel has elected a new President after 21 years. Yvon Riva is set to leave the organization on September 15 when Xavier Leduc, President of...
Majority Of Readers Say MSC Objection Process Not Working
Over the month, Atuna has been discussing if the Marine Stewardship Council’s objection process regarding certification is working properly for stakeholders. Critics have said that it requires...
Korea Introduces App For Easier Tuna Transshipments
The Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries wants to optimize the administrative work regarding transshipments for pelagic deep-sea fishing vessels including tuna, and has established the...
Yellowfin Supply To BKK Stable Despite Reported Low Catches
Purse seine operators have reported that yellowfin catches in the WCPO have been significantly low during the first half of 2021. However, during the same period discharges of whole round...
Vaccinations In Three Major Asian Processing Nations Still Very Limited
As the tuna industry around the world has embedded COVID-19 measures into its protocols, vaccinations have been rolling out for months. Some producing and fishing nations have been making more...
Azores Tuna Fishers Take Part In Ghost Gear Removal Contest
Small-scale tuna fishers in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, are taking part in a ghost gear retrieval competition, the first of its kind in the world. The contest runs from June...
US Troll Albacore Catches Rise Sharply In 2020
The US longline fleet landed fewer catches in 2020 while the country’s trollers targeting albacore managed to increase their captures by nearly 120 percent year-on-year. According to the...
Is Sajo Group Chair Desperately Trying To Keep Control?
On August 10, Sajo Group’s Chairman, Joo Jin-Woo, lent six percent of his 14.24 percent equity in Sajo Industries equally to two other businesses outside the firm. Simultaneously, he called an...
June WCPO Carrier Volume To Bangkok And GenSan Up
Transshipments of whole round frozen tuna in the WCPO slightly recovered in June, while seiners’ overall catches were down that month. As operations kept moving eastwards, carrier activity in...
Scientists To Test More Biodegradable DFADs In WCPO
The world’s largest tuna fishery in the world is the WCPO and so it is unsurprising that it has the highest number of drifting FADs (dFADs) deployed or redeployed yearly. Several scientists...
French Court Rules In Favor Of Fairer Tuna Allocation To Small-Scale Fishers
After four years, an administrative court in Southern France has ruled that the country’s small-scale fishers deserve a fairer allocation for their tuna quotas. The Professional Union of Small...
Japan’s Tuna Sector Fighting Negative Image To Recruit Young Crew
Japan’s fisheries are using social media to attract more young people to tuna fishing companies. Many of them view distant water tuna fishing jobs as hard, dirty, and dangerous. Working on...
Kiribati & Eastern Zones Best Skipjack Catches In June
Captains in the WCPO continued to favor waters in the Eastern zone within the PNA region during June, particularly Kiribati's EEZ, one of the most tuna-rich areas...
Mexico In NOAA’s List Of IUU Fishing Countries
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has called out seven nations for their engagement in IUU fishing activities and 29 countries for having insufficient regulatory...