In a situation where the country’s economy could severely suffer without immediate spending reforms, the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, is forced to make decisions, which for some...
Fishing
Call For Closure Of EU For Turkish Tuna
One of Spain’s top fresh tuna exporters, Balfegó Group, is set to call for ICCAT countries to close their borders to bluefin tuna from Turkey during the next International Commission for the...
Echebastar: Maldives MSC Should Be “Annulled”
The Echebastar fishery group has revealed it believes it is WWF’s responsibility to ensure that the Maldives pole and line fishery has its MSC certification annulled, in addition to the...
Red-Rated Yellowfin Triggers No Changes For ISSF Yet
After releasing the latest version of its Status of the Stocks Ratings back in March this year, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has said that despite the recent...
Sapmer In Burning Boat Rescue
A tuna vessel has saved the lives of 29 fishermen who were trapped onboard a ship which caught fire in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles recently. Sapmer’s purse seiner “Dolomieu”, a 90...
Beached FADs Creating Island Junkyards
With up to 110,000 new FADs released each year, it is virtually impossible to estimate exactly how many fish aggregating devices (FADs) are really floating in our oceans. And with new FADs...
Sightings Of Huge Tuna On The Up In Canada
Reported sightings of enormous bluefin tuna in Newfoundland, Canada, have been coming in thick and fast over the summer months, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada...
Solander Sees Albacore Export Fall Sharply
Low catches in the country’s waters are causing struggles for one of Fiji’s largest fish exporters, which has seen its albacore shipments to other nations drop considerably. Solander Pacific,...
ISSF: NGOs, Buyers, RFMO’s Should Improve Sustainability
Consensus on tuna sustainability among NGOs is growing, according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Working in parallel to this emergence, the foundation states...
MSC’s 15 Year Milestone Shows Record Sales
This week marked the 15th anniversary of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), celebrating 15 years since the launch of the program which now covers 108 different species of fish and marine...
Extra Quota For US Fleet On Top Of Catch Limit
Longline fishermen in Hawaii have been granted permission to fish an extra 1,000 M/T of bigeye tuna despite having already hit their annual catch limit of 3,500 M/T by early August, sparking...
EU To Invest Half A Billion Euros In Fight Against IUU
By 2020, the EU plans to have invested a considerable EUR 675 million towards combatting IUU fishing worldwide. During his first visit to the Conxemar international fair of frozen seafood in...
Could Spending Cuts Further Impact Ecuador’s Prices?
As Ecuador’s canned tuna shipments to the EU slip substantially, the weight on the country’s fishing and processing industry could be set to get even heavier, as the government may be left...
Maldives Processors Positive On Continuation MSC Status
While tuna processors in the Maldives are fully aware of the issues that a loss of MSC certification could bring for their industry, for now they appear positive that the situation won’t...
First MSC Longliners To Transship In Cook Islands Port
A fleet of longliners certified by the MSC have become among the first longline vessels to carry out their transshipment activities in port within the Cook Islands, rather than on the high...
Will The “Benchmark Tool” Cause Clarity Or Confusion?
This week marks the first full week of implementation for the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative’s (GSSI) “Benchmark Tool” for regulating seafood certification schemes around the world. The...
Frabelle, Silla, Dongwon And TU To Build Tuna Plant
Filipino tuna fishing company Frabelle is set to work with Silla, Dongwon Industries, and its own joint venture with Thai Union, Majestic Seafoods, to build a tuna processing plant in...
New US “Sea Scout” Scheme To Fight IUU Announced
A new global initiative to help identify IUU fishing activity has been announced this week at the “Our Ocean” conference held by the US Government, in which President Obama stated that new...
Indian Ocean Yellowfin Goes In Red As “Overfished”
The IOTC has this week updated the stock assessment of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean, downgrading their status from green to red, and stating that the current population of the large tuna...
How Easy Fishing Without A Flag And Registration Can Be
A source close to atuna.com has revealed details of a case in which a tuna longliner, named on both the ICCAT IUU record and the EU’s IUU vessel list, appears to have simply been renamed and...