In the Atlantic Ocean, yellowfin catches have exceeded the 110,000-ton limit for several years. This is a critical topic that will be up for discussion at the ICCAT annual meeting taking place...
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Bumble Bee Film Festival Winners & Other Social Media Stories
Bumble Bee’s ‘Tuna CANS Film Festival’ awarded USD 25,000 to two aspiring filmmakers. A popular YouTuber managed to garner thousands of likes by posting a video of mercury in tuna, but the...
FAO Pushes Tuna Management Reform With New E-Learning Initiative
The FAO is set to unveil a five-course e-learning series on establishing management procedures (MP) for tuna, to be presented at the ongoing ICCAT 29th Regular Meeting in Spain. This will give...
Why Is Allocating Fishing Rights Tricky?
The ICCAT annual meeting is taking place this week and several critical topics are up for discussion including fleets fishing over the limits on yellowfin. For quota-dependent measures,...
Bangladesh’s Tuna Sector Growth Moving At Snail’s Pace
Bangladesh has a strategic position along the Indian Ocean rim, but has not yet developed a flourishing tuna industry. Poor planning, project delays, and persistent political interference have...
Grupomar Boasts Yet Another Feather In Its Crown
Mexican tuna company Grupomar recently got the first place in the 'National Tuna Fishing Ranking 2025.’ The catches of its seiner, 'F/V Gijón', exceeded 9,400 M/T in 2025, the largest caught...
Albacora’s Presence In Ecuador Rises As Spanish Operations Take Backseat
Spanish tuna company Albacora has been expanding its canning business through its Ecuadorian subsidiary, Salica Ecuador, but has witnessed a gradual decline in its presence in Spain. In 2024,...
Chair Penas Explains ICCAT’s Priorities For Upcoming Years
“Certainly, it is my intention to try to advance as much as possible on several things,” ICCAT Chair Ernesto Penas tells Atuna ahead of the Commission's annual meeting, which began today....
ICCAT Meeting Kicks Off In Spain
The ICCAT 29th Regular Meeting began today in Seville, Spain. Skipjack management procedure (MP), scaling up of electronic monitoring on vessels, bycatch mitigation, and MP-based catch limits...
Deep-Sea Mining Poses Threat To Base Of Marine Food Chain
Exploitation of minerals from the seabed could disrupt midwater food webs, which are crucial food for fish that tuna preys on. The study throws light on yet another impact of deep-sea mining...
Mexican Seiner Catches Fire During Repair
Large purse seiner ‘El Dorado’, owned by Pesca Azteca, was docked for maintenance in Mazatlán, Mexico, when it suddenly caught fire on the afternoon of November 15. The shipyard workers...
Trump Eyes Deep Sea Mining Close To Pacific Islands’ Coasts
US President Donald Trump intends to expand deep-sea mining around the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, located in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf in the WCPO, known for...
Chinese Firm’s LL Catches In WCPO Gets MSC Logo
The CAB, SCS Global Services, announced that the scope extension for albacore, yellowfin, bigeye, and swordfish catches of the Chinese company Pingtairong Ocean Fishery Group Co., Ltd. has...
US Court Says Forced Labor Case Against Bumble Bee Can Proceed
The Southern California federal court on Wednesday stated that the case, pertaining to a group of Indonesian fishers and Bumble Bee, will move forward. Earlier this year, the fishers had...
Marine Horizon Viewer: The Smart Lookout Serving The Tuna Fleet
- Sponsored content - The innovative Marine Horizon Viewer (MHV) system from Marine Instruments has begun its operational testing phase on board tuna vessels. It acts as a “digital lookout,”...
Longest Government Shutdown In US History Ends
US President Donald Trump ended the over one-month-long record shutdown by signing a government funding bill on Wednesday. The latest turn of events would lead to federal agencies such as NOAA...
Skipjack MP Discussion Critical At ICCAT Meeting
With the ICCAT’s 29th Regular Meeting around the corner, the Pew Charitable Trusts have put forward a new set of recommendations for the Commission. It lauded Brazil’s efforts to propose a...
EU Commissioner Asserts Tuna Workers’ Rights And Welfare Top Priority
Representatives from the EU tuna and seafood sectors met Costas Kadis, the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, last week to discuss topics pertaining to shaping the future of...
Last Wooden Tuna Boat From San Sebastián Saved
The last wooden boat catching albacore with a traditional Basque fishing technique has been saved from the wrecking ball and will be restored to its former glory. The ‘Ozentziyo’ was built in...
Vanuatu Raises Alarm About IUU Vessels’ Presence
Vanuatu recently sent a letter to the IOTC stating that 20 trawlers, flagged to the island nation, were noticed to have been sailing in the RFMO’s convention area to fish, but have not been...