Sri Lanka and India have come to a mutual agreement to find a permanent solution to the two decade long conflict over illegal tuna fishing in each other’s waters. The ongoing feud has involved...
Fishing
US Pressures Vietnam To Fight IUU
The US government has sent a warning to Vietnamese seafood processors to improve their fight against IUU fishing as new rules, to take effect next year, could impact their exports to the...
ANABAC Stresses Frustration Over Unfair “Race To Fish”
Having expressed its disagreement with Spanish government plans to put a collective end date on the operations of the Spanish fleet in the Indian Ocean, ANABAC is keen to clarify that its main...
Spanish Albacore Season Comes To Early Close
Spanish vessels will today stop fishing for Atlantic albacore (bonito del norte) as the fleet’s quota is estimated to have been exhausted. The closure of the fishery usually comes at the end...
PNA Hub To Become “One Stop Port” For Tuna Vessels
Pacific International Inc. (PII) has expressed plans to make the capital of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Majuro, a “one stop shopping and preferred service port” for tuna vessels in the Western...
Bangkok Drop As Korean Fleet Spreads Deliveries
The South Korean fleet continues to divert large tuna tonnages away from Bangkok and to other major processing locations, with the wider spread contributing to a supply shortage in the Thai...
Enquiry Into Why US Longliner Ran Aground
Investigations are underway after a US-flagged tuna longliner ran aground off Waikiki in Hawaii. The Honolulu-based Pacific Paradise, owned by Hawaiian company TWOL LLC, ran aground 366 meters...
US Fleet Defied Slump In Bangkok Deliveries
While most fleets have delivered much lower volumes of whole round tuna to Thailand this year, the US fleet defied the general trend, at least up until the start of the WCPO FAD ban. Out of...
Most Say No To Spanish APR Standards For Global Fleet
Recent calls for a Spanish government-led fishing initiative to be recognized on a global scale, or at least be adhered to by all EU fleets, has been dismissed by most voters on the latest...
Study: 1/3 Of Catch Unreported In Indo Fisheries
The amount of underreported catch in some tuna fisheries is highly underestimated, a new study conducted in Indonesia concludes. The authors reveal that non or misreporting of juvenile tuna...
Potential Yellow Card Concerns Vietnam Over EU Competitiveness
As Vietnam recognizes the potential of receiving a yellow card warning from the EU on IUU, exporters have raised concerns about high inspection costs of seafood containers that may come with...
IPNLF Echoes “Mixed Fishery” Argument In PNA MSC Objection
The IPNLF has submitted an objection to the PNA tuna fishery’s MSC reassessment process, which raises again an argument that has been repeatedly used as criticism; the use of certified and...
Tri Marine Concerned With Rising Fleet Capacity In EPO
As a relatively recent big player in the EPO purse seine fishery, Tri Marine is stressing that there needs to be a cap on purse seine fleet capacity in the region, in order to ensure the long...
Milestone Reached For Global IUU Fight
Just one year after the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) came into place, the scheme to fight illegal fishing has reached a new milestone, now counting 50 parties, with the European Union...
Full Capacity Back In EPO
The first 72-day purse seine tuna fishing closure in the EPO came to an end on Sunday, with the vessels that have been tied up for just over ten weeks, now resuming their fishing operations....
Heart Attack Behind Echebastar Seiner In Maldives’ Waters
A recent assessment on IUU fishing in Maldives’ EEZ has claimed, among other incidences, that a purse seiner from the Echebastar tuna fleet engaged in illegal activities in Maldivian waters,...
ANABAC Wants Early Yellowfin Closure Scrapped
The Spanish Fisheries Ministry’s decision to make all Spanish-flagged seiners cease their yellowfin catching operations in the Indian Ocean at the beginning of next month has been met with...
Sapmer’s Quality Focus Keeps IO Seiners Fishing
Major French tuna fishing firm, Sapmer, is confident in keeping its Indian Ocean operating purse seiners fishing throughout the whole of 2017, despite the fleet in the region being subject to...
Scientists Recommend “Risky” Bluefin Quota Increase
Scientists have advised that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) raises its fishing quotas for Atlantic bluefin, to the disappointment of some...
Pacifical & RD Sign Strategic MoU On MSC
The Philippine based tuna firm RD Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pacifical, the marketing arm for PNA-sourced MSC tuna. RD and Pacifical’s agreement, which was...