Taiwan has continued its trend in bringing higher value tuna species to the Bangkok market, and despite landing smaller volumes in the Thai capital, has been reaping much bigger returns per...
Fishing
Firm Handshake Should Get 109 Vietnamese Fishermen Free
Vietnam and Indonesia have shaken hands on a deal that will see them cooperate on fisheries and seafood development, with a strong focus on tackling the existing problems that both nations...
A Big Blind Spot In Managing WCPFC Stocks?
The exclusion of some tuna landings from the EEZs of three significant fishing nations in annual catch figures gives the impression that the WCPFC has a big blind spot in assessing regional...
The Least Purse Seine Sets Since 2009
Total purse seine sets made in the Western Central Pacific in 2015 reached the lowest number recorded over the last six years, but some solace came from the fact that on average, each set made...
Venezuelan Tuna Crewman Found Dead
The body of a Venezuelan man who fell from a tuna purse seiner in El Salvador was found yesterday. Jose Sedino Sermeño, 60, fell when he tried to get off the Venezuelan flagged vessel...
The “Deliberate Understatement” Of 80% Of FADs
Since starting mandatory FAD-tracking trials at the beginning of the year, the PNA believes that the number of FAD deployments in the region is being deliberately understated by most...
3 Reasons The PNA VDS Price Hasn’t Increased
Earlier this month, PNA Ministers met in Kiribati to discuss the future management of their lucrative, joint tuna fishery, and just one of the decisions reached was to keep the VDS minimum...
Scarce Catch Not Spurring Manta Price Rise
Despite the notably lower volumes of skipjack raw material entering Ecuadorian ports, the shortage in supply isn’t spurring a rise in the Manta market price, and actually a small decline can...
Kumoru’s Prescription For A Stronger PNA
Taking the reins earlier this month, new PNA CEO, Ludwig Kumoru won’t be focusing his first efforts on looking at new initiatives, but on improving governance in the region and ensuring the...
Venezuelan Tuna Industry: Better Days Ahead?
The Venezuelan tuna industry might be on its way back up as the country’s fishing fleet has seen an increase in domestic catch in the last month. Around 4,700 tons of tuna arrived in Sucre...
Yellowfin Slump Stands Out In EPO Catch
Higher hauls of skipjack tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) are managing to offset significant declines in landings of other species, particularly yellowfin tuna. For the first half of...
Has The Purse Seine Fleet Reached Its Peak?
A growth in the number of tuna purse seiners active in the Western Pacific Ocean halted for the first time in 10 years in 2015, according to the latest data published by the WCPFC. An overall...
Are FAD Charges Effective?
Earlier this month, the annual PNA Ministerial meeting came to a close and officials reached a number of key decisions on the management of their tuna resource, with a focus on FAD control....
Maldives Keeps Sharp Watch On Tuna Catch
A new database for Maldivian fisheries has been put in place, hoping to improve tuna catch traceability and allow national authorities to watch over the legality of tuna landed in the country....
WCPFC: Putting Politics Before Science?
International NGO, Pew Charitable Trusts, is calling again for a two-year ban on the commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna and for the WCPFC to take action on the dire future that the...
WCPO Tuna Catch: What’s Behind The Drop?
The latest annual WCPO tuna catches have shown significant decline from the previous year, and an end to a three year consecutive rise in volume. But which species contributed most...
Is Sea Shepherd Assisted Vessel Detention Unlawful?
The detention of the tuna vessel found holding dead sharks has no legal basis according to a Spanish Organization for longliners (ORPAGU). The anti-pouching group Sea Shepherd was involved in...
Closer Eye On Spanish Fleet In IO
The Spanish tuna fleet in the Seychelles has signed an agreement to develop a new electronic observer program onboard its vessels in the Indian Ocean, a region that has been criticized in the...
WCPO Catch Plunges For First Time In Years
For the first time in four years, the latest annual (2015) WCPO tuna catch total hasn’t reached a record breaking figure, having taken nearly a 200,000 ton plunge from the previous year. The...
Thousands Of Atlantic Tuna Tagged
The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) has launched a project to tag and track 6,500 tuna in Canary Island waters that will run until late October. According to Bajo El Agua, among the...