UK retailer Waitrose & Partners will continue sourcing yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) in a bid to support the Maldives tuna fishery citing that it believes the positive actions taken...
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Guangdong Province Wants To Be China’s Tuna Hub
The Guangdong province in China has reiterated its interest in becoming a tuna processing and trading hub for the country. To achieve this, the province has been increasing its tuna fleet and...
EU: Fleets Overfishing Atlantic Yellowfin Must Be Held Accountable
The second round of consultations in the ICCAT annual meeting is currently ongoing albeit in an unusual fashion with discussions taking place over emails. The US has said that bigeye catch...
Ghanaian Navy To Fight Off Pirates Targeting Tuna Vessels
Ghana’s Chief of Naval Staff has stated that his fleet will make the country’s maritime waters safe again by preventing illegal fishing and other criminal activities from taking place. Rear...
WCPFC Extends Pause For 100% Observer Coverage
After reviewing the COVID-19 situation, the WCPFC has decided to extend the suspension of the requirement for observer coverage on purse seiners for four more months. The move also continues...
How Much ATQ Loins Should The EU Take In Annually?
Currently, the negotiations for the 2021-2023 Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) for pre-cooked tuna loins are ongoing at the EU Council. However, the EU fleet and the processing industry...
Maldives Yellowfin Raw Material Cut Will Hurt Bangkok Packers
The Maldives government has raised its concerns about recent calls to boycott yellowfin caught in the Indian Ocean (IO). It claimed that the nation’s traditional pole-and-line and handline...
Atuna Readers Agree On Reduction Of Fishing When HCR Is Breached
Although in 2019 less tonnage of skipjack was caught in the Indian Ocean (IO) than in the year before, the landings still exceeded the limit set in the Harvest Control Rule (HCR). This...
Kiribati Observer’s Family Dissatisfied With Murder Investigation
The family of Kiribati observer Eritara Aati Kaierua has expressed their dissatisfaction with the investigation regarding his death earlier this year on board Taiwanese tuna purse seiner ‘Win...
Major Global Tuna Highlights October 2020
During the month of October, the tuna industry saw strong activity across all sectors. From the movement of raw material prices in global tuna hubs to the clash between the EU fleet and...
ISSF Expects Supply Chain Actors To Publish Social Policies
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has announced that it will be introducing a new conservation measure next year. It requires participating tuna and seafood companies...
Can Shallow-Depth DFADs Reduce Baby Bigeye Catches?
Scientists seeking a solution to reduce fishing mortality of juvenile bigeye in the EPO have found that purse seine tuna catch volumes of sets made on prototype shallow-depth drifting FADs...
Large Tuna Cut CO2 Massively When Left To Die At Sea
Scientists have discovered that large fish, which sink after death, take the carbon that they contain within them into the deep ocean leaving it there for thousands of years. However,...
Silky Shark Tagging Project To Lower Echebastar’s Bycatch
Spanish tuna fishing company Echebastar and AZTI, a research institution, are currently collaborating on a Silky Shark Tagging Project to seek ways to reduce bycatch. Biologists tag a...
Two More Indonesian Crew Died On Chinese Tuna Longliners
Two more Indonesian fishers have died on board Chinese tuna longliners, one on the notorious ‘Long Xing 629’. This boat came under international scrutiny in May when the Environmental Justice...
Pacific Tuna Observer Arrives Home After 10 Months At Sea
After nearly 10 months at sea, a fisheries observer from Vanuatu was repatriated home this week via the carrier vessel, ‘SHIN HO CHUN 102’. The country is currently one of the few...
EU Fleets Blame Others For Failure Of Yellowfin Rebuilding Plan
Just before the IOTC plenary meeting next week, the EU purse seiner fleets have joined forces to release a statement that shows their progress in contributing to the yellowfin rebuilding plan....
Battle In IO Over Chagos Yellowfin Rich Waters
The maritime borders of the Chagos Archipelago are the center of a fight between Mauritius and Maldives at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Both countries are claiming...
Effect Of Lights In Increasing Tuna Catch On FADs
A recently published study by Chinese scientists concluded that light might affect the vertical distribution of skipjack and yellowfin when aggregating around drifting FADs. According to the...
Eyes On Kiribati Officials Over Observer Tragedy On ‘WIN FAR 636’
The Taiwanese-flagged purse seiner 'WIN FAR 636', which has been the focal point of a major investigation, has left Kiribati waters and probably has gone fishing again. The main involved...