The 94th Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) meeting will begin at the start of next week in Euskalduna in Bilbao, Spain. Representatives of the member countries will attend the...
Fishing
Interview With AZTI: Acoustic Probes To Help Bluefin Stock Study
A new type of research to ascertain bluefin, mainly juvenile, stock has been ongoing in the Bay of Biscay for a few years. Spanish research center, AZTI Tecnalia, carried out...
Gabon And Sea Shepherd Continue To Jointly Fight IUU And Protect Tuna
Gabonese officials have signed a tripartite agreement to combat illegal fishing and protect tuna stock in their country’s EEZ. The Minister of...
Fire On Board Japanese Longliner In Indian Ocean
At around 7:45 am on Tuesday, June 16, a Japanese fishing vessel caught fire off the coast of Perth, Australia. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) was informed about the...
Outrage In Thailand Over Dolphin By-Catch On Tongol
This week, popular Thai news anchor, Anuwat Fuangthongdeng, posted online a five-minute video clip showing ten dolphins being caught by a small wooden boat. The Malaysian...
Kenya Intends To Dramatically Increase Its Domestic Tuna Catch
Kenya has been making serious efforts to improve fishing by its own vessels in its waters and to fight IUU. The country reopened the Liwatoni Fisheries Complex six months...
Amazing Rescue Of Wounded Mexican Seiner Crew 1300 Miles At Sea
A remarkable rescue effort took place to aid Mexican tuna fishermen who were injured when their vessel's crane collapsed while hauling the net in. Three men on the Mazatun were...
New System To Modernize Kiribati’s Fisheries Management
The Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development’s (MFMRD) has chosen the Spanish engineering company, Satlink, to create a new system to modernize its Fisheries...
AZTI Research On Bluefin Using Acoustic Probes Will Aid Stock Evaluation
Spanish research center, AZTI Tecnalia, carried out a bluefin (BFT) indexing campaign in June to survey the number of this tuna in the Bay of Biscay utilizing acoustic probes to...
Criticized Costa Rica’s Incopesca President To Step Down
Moisés Mug, President of Incopesca in Costa Rica, will step down next week after having served in his role for 13 months. The country’s Minister of...
Manta’s Containers With Tuna Now Shipped Directly To EU Main Ports
From July 15, two container ships from the French shipping company, CMA-CGM will moor in the port of Manta, Ecuador, every Monday. For the local canned...
Tuna Monument In San Diego Honors Over 85 Fishermen
The region of Point Loma in San Diego, California, was once known as the tuna capital of the world. This may no longer be the case but the Portuguese Historical Center...
Maldives’ Tuna Purchases Increased In Q1 2019
In the first quarter of 2019, the purchases by fish processing companies in the Maldives increased to 25,000 M/T, as reported in the Quarterly Economic Review by the Maldives...
Atuna Poll: Will FAD Ban Period Affect Skipjack Price?
At the beginning of July, the Bangkok price for skipjack hit the USD 1000 per M/T barrier. This price is the reference point for the global tuna industry. Due to filled...
Taiwanese Longliner On Fire In Indian Ocean
A Taiwanese-flagged tuna fishing vessel, Feng Kuo 568, was reported to be on fire on July 3 in the Indian Ocean. Its twenty crew members abandoned the boat around 1,400 nautical...
Crisis For US West Coast Albacore, Landings Lowest In 20 Years
Just as in 2018, albacore trollers in the US West Coast hope tuna landings will pick up in time for this year’s season, which will peak in July. Last year, 446...
Heavy Cost-Related Regulations Kills US Seiners’ Profitability
This week, South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced that it will be downsizing its fleet by the end of this year – eight tuna purse seiners will be sold off from its original...
Chinese Allowed To Fish In PhiIippines EEZ A Presidential Misstep
In what could only be seen as a political misstep, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte might have given the Chinese President Xi Jinping the idea that if there is a...
Spanish Atlantic Seiners In Port For Bigeye Quota
Spain has issued a month-long ban during the month of July for seiners fishing for bigeye in the Eastern Atlantic and West African waters. The General Fisheries...
GrupoMar Aims To Catch 25,000 M/T Of Seafood
Mexican company GrupoMar hopes to close 2019 with a catch of 25,000 M/T of fish products. According to the Director of Operation of the group,...