The growth of China’s geopolitical influence in the South Pacific has been worrying some experts, who convened at the Global Taiwan Institute last week. Retired Navy...
Fishing
EU Finances Vessels To Prevent Young Somalis From Piracy
The FAO recently delivered twelve small tuna fishing boats to Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. The vessels were given as part of a...
Anchored FADs To Help Galapagos Fishermen Catch Tuna
In the Islands of the Galapagos, in Ecuador, an initiative to preserve the population of native species with slow reproductive cycles is redirecting fishermen to catch more tuna and other...
Help For Drifting US Seiner In PNA Waters
Yesterday, Atuna reported that the US-flagged purse seiner ‘Danielle Lynn’ was drifting in the South Pacific and asking for assistance. Today, the news was received that the...
Seaweed Invasion Threatening Spanish Bluefin Catch
In Spain, almadraba fishermen are concerned about the consequences of an invasive algae that threatens next year's bluefin fishing season. Algeciras al Minuto reported that The...
US Seiner Helplessly Adrift In PNA Waters
'Danielle Lynn,' a US purse seiner drifting in the South Pacific since December 12, has asked for assistance from other vessels in the area. The seiner was unable to continue its trip....
GrupoMar To Discuss Mexican Tuna Market At AMAtuna 2020
The Mexican canned tuna industry has been growing steadily in the last five years. Surprisingly, in the North American country, fish and seafood are the main sources of protein, positioned...
No Management Complacency In WCPFC
Graham Philling, Director of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Oceanic Fisheries Programme, said during an RNZ radio interview that there is no room for complacency in the way the...
Spain Refutes Overfishing Yellowfin In Indian Ocean
Another accusation has been leveled against the EU fleet, especially the Spanish, for overfishing red-rated yellowfin in the Indian Ocean – this time by Seychelles. A fisheries...
Could Panama Be Facing Second EU Yellow Card?
Today, EU notified Panama about the risk of being identified as a non-cooperating country in combating Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing on tuna. Normally, this...
Japanese Tuna Fishermen Denied Compensation By High Court
A Japanese High Court has upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a claim by former tuna fishermen and bereaved relatives for state compensation over hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll,...
No Strides Made At WCPFC On Harvest Strategies
No headway was made to modernize fisheries management and protect tuna stocks at the 16th Session of WCPFC, which concluded yesterday. Member states of the RFMO did...
Japan Gets Extra Bluefin Quota From Taiwan For 2020
The WCPFC meeting, which concluded yesterday, confirmed and approved Japan's acquisition of an extra catch quota of 300 M/T for large bluefin – weighing 30 kilograms or more...
Ecuador’s TUNA PAN Includes Stricter Small Seiner Monitoring
Ecuador has adopted a national action plan through which it aims to improve its fisheries management and aid in getting rid of the yellow card handed by the EU in late...
WCPFC’s Voluntary Guidelines For Seabirds’ Safety
The issue of safeguarding seabirds from becoming tuna bycatch was discussed during the WCPFC 16 meeting, which is currently taking place in Port Moresby, PNG. Consequently, the...
PNG Prime Minister: IUU Vessels Will Be Sunk
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, James Marape, has warned that illegal fishing vessels in its waters will be sunk. “I take this time to put illegal fishermen on notice. When I build up...
Greenpeace Sees “Modern Slavery” On Asian Tuna Seiners
Greenpeace South Asia recently published a report ‘Seabound: The Journey to Modern Slavery on the High Seas’. The NGO investigated the living and working conditions of migrant...
Glacial Progress On Key Priorities At WCPFC 2019
Negotiations are still ongoing at the 16th Session of the WCPFC gathering at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on the essential issues of the tuna industry in the region. However, little...
FFA Reiterates Its Founding Role In WCPFC
The Director-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, has highlighted that FFA's members were the founders of the Tuna...
GFW Satelite Data Tracks Panamanian Tuna Seiners, Sometimes
A few months ago, Panama underlined the necessity of monitoring vessels and transshipments and combating illegal fishing. For greater transparency and to enforce compliance in its fleet,...