The 16th Regular Session of the WCPFC is beginning today and member nations, governmental organizations, NGOs, and other parties will be discussing numerous core issues that affect the...
Fishing
Filipino And Indo Seiners Net More Juvenile Fish In WCPO
Small seiners in the domestic fisheries of Indonesia and Philippines catch more juvenile tuna with associated sets – skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye – compared to other countries, says a...
Panama’s Tuna Fleet Is Now Traceable Online
Panama has underlined the importance of monitoring vessels and transshipments by the release of its vessel tracking data via Global Fishing Watch (GFW). From now on, the activities of over 150...
Lischewski’s Counsel Wants To Appeal “Guilty” Verdict
The defense for the former CEO of Bumble Bee, Chris Lischewski, said he was disappointed in the “guilty” verdict, which was handed out to the accused yesterday. On...
RD Seiner Rescues Five After A Week Of Drifting
The crew of RD Fishing purse seiner Dolores 787 has rescued two adults and three children from a drifting banana boat at sea near PNG’s border with Micronesia. The unfortunate family was about...
BREAKING NEWS: Chris Lischewski Found Guilty For Price-Fixing
A Californian federal jury has found former CEO of Bumble Bee, Chris Lischewski, guilty of price-fixing US canned tuna with competitors. The verdict comes after four weeks of a grueling trial...
End-Payors Refute StarKist’s Appeal Against Class Certification
US tuna company, StarKist had filed a motion for an immediate appeal of a class certification ruling in an anti-trust multi-district litigation (MDL) against the US Big...
Pakistan Intends To Boost Its Tuna Industry, Again
Pakistan is not benefiting from the large tuna resources in the Indian Ocean due to their human resource incapacity and lack of understanding on maritime issues. As a result,...
Major Global Tuna Highlights November 2019
November was a month of upheaval for major tuna players and the industry itself. Bumble Bee filed for insolvency with its fate still being decided on who might be the final buyer of the...
EU Fleet: Uneven Playing Field With Asian Boats
The European fishing association, Europêche, has stated that ICCAT’s decisions from its meeting last week in Palma de Mallorca, do not guarantee a level playing field for...
Fiji Wants To Secure Expensive Fishing License Fee
Fiji’s Fisheries Minister is aiming to get a good economic deal through a tuna fishing license at the upcoming WCPFC meeting in Port Moresby, which will begin this Thursday....
Bangkok Skipjack Price Crisis A Crossroad?
Oversupply in raw material and low demand for skipjack in Bangkok have led the global benchmark to hit its lowest level in 10 years, pushing down skipjack prices all over the world. This...
Saving Tuna Is Saving Ourselves
“I wanted to show the power games behind the screens when it comes to the whole tuna market in terms of sustainability,” said Steven Adolf, author of recently published Tuna Wars. ...
NGO: “Cape Verde Squanders Its Tuna To EU”
The recently published fishing agreement between Cape Verde and the EU does not define any hard limit on catches. Therefore Tommy Melo, President of the Cape Verdean Environmental Biosphere...
EU To Evaluate Ecuador’s Progress Combating IUU
Next April, the EU will carry out its first evaluation of Ecuador's progress in its fight against illegal tuna fishing. A technical commission from Brussels will visit the South American...
Peruvian Tuna Industry Has Ambitious Plans
The President of the Peruvian Tuna Chamber, Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, said during the II International Tuna Congress that the national tuna industry seeks to generate 15,000 new jobs and to...
Limits On WCPFC Tuna Catch Focus Of NGOs
NGOs have requested the WCPFC take into consideration various issues regarding the agenda of the upcoming 16th Regular Session of the Commission. These include more...
The Tuna Epicenter That Few People Know About
A large number of Spanish purse seiners are based in the small Basque city of Bermeo, where only approximately 16,700 people live. A new study on the financial relevance of the tuna sector for...
Albacore Shortage Makes PAFCO Switch To Skipjack
Albacore raw material supply to Fiji’s main tuna processing plant has been meager over the last couple of months. The situation has become so precarious that the plant has started processing...
High Healthy Stock Percentage Dominated By Skipjack
Catches from healthy stocks in terms of abundance accounted for 81 percent of the total catch volume of 2017. Only four percent is marked yellow, which stands for an intermediate level, and 15...