The first entirely Seychellois-owned fleet of industrial longliners set sail this week on their maiden trips out to sea under the direction of Alderic Benoiton, the owner of Marine Investment...
Fishing
If Maldives Keeps MSC, Echebastar Back In The Race?
What will be the result for Echebastar if the Maldives pole and line fishery passes its next MSC audit? According to Echebastar’s spokesman, if the Maldives are allowed to retain their MSC...
IPNLF Scientific Meeting In Bangkok
Today marks the last day of the International Pole and Line Foundation’s scientific advisory committee meeting in the Thai capital, where members help advise the IPNLF on the formulation of...
MSC: Maldives And PNA Fisheries Will Be Reviewed In Next Audit
The independent adjudicator presiding over the objection process for the MSC assessment of the Echebastar Indian Ocean tuna fishery has upheld objections, by stakeholders such as WWF, that the...
Not Enough Pole And Line Available For John West
In reaction to Greenpeace’s latest sustainability report, which slammed top UK tuna brand John West for its poor efforts in providing sustainable products, the top UK brand has hit back at the...
Tuna Nations Want To Ensure Decent Working Conditions On Vessels
With reports of slavery and poor working conditions in the Thai fishing industry becoming increasingly documented, evidence from a small-scale study in the Pacific has suggested that similar...
Yet Another Drop For Bangkok SKJ Levels
The Bangkok skipjack price has taken another slide in recent days with most of the decline appearing to be caused by major buyers holding back in anticipation of prices lowering even further...
Echebastar Demands Review Of Existing MSC Tuna Certifications
Now that adjudicator Mr. Eldon Greenberg has ruled that the final assessment of the Echebastar purse seine Indian Ocean tuna fishery does not meet the MSC criteria, the fishery is now...
How To Calculate Sustainability Rating Of US Sold Seafood?
A new online tool which allows businesses to calculate the sustainability of their seafood has been created by The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Seattle Fish Co. and Fishchoice.com, and has been...
Lack Of Albacore Halts Expansion Of Major Bumble Bee Supplier
The Pacific Fishing Company (PAFCO) has stated that the main reason behind its lack of growth and expansion is due to a shortage of raw materials available to access for processing. The...
Two UK Brand Leaders Rated Rock Bottom
The new “tinned tuna league table” has been released by Greenpeace this week and reveals that the UK’s market leader in canned tuna, John West, has ranked in last place on sustainability...
Tuna Quota Owners Taken By Surprise By Sanctuary
Fisheries Inshore New Zealand (FINZ), who represent the country’s inshore fisheries and tuna quota owners in New Zealand, have stated that they want to work with the Government to develop...
Yellow Card Issued To Taiwan By The EU
Taiwan is the latest nation to be hit by a yellow card warning from the EU for failing to fight IUU fishing, with particular emphasis placed on its lack of fisheries management and distant...
PNG and Ghana Have Yellow Card Lifted
The European Commission announced this week that they are lifting the yellow cards put in place on both Ghana and Papua New Guinea after the nations have shown significant cooperation and...
How Realistic Is A Tuna Quota System In The WCP?
Pacific Islands Forum leaders have called for a review into the current tuna fisheries management system within the region, after suggestions have been raised to move away from the VDS and...
WWF “Unlikely” To Block Maldives P&L Recertification
With the Echebastar fishery in Spain set to fail its MSC certification assessment following formal objections from WWF and the IPNLF regarding poor management and overfishing, questions have...
WCPFC Ignores Calls For Transshipment Ban
A week-long meeting of the WCPFC ended on Tuesday no further forward in addressing the issues of illegal tuna transshipment by longliners occurring in the region. It is reported that a...
Spanish Seiner Sinks Off Abidjan
A Belizean-flagged tuna purse seiner under the name ‘Txori Urdin’ sank earlier this week in the Gulf of Guinea, after water started leaking into the boat. After the leak was discovered, the...
FRINSA Winner In Spain’s Tuna Sustainability Rating
Frinsa has come out on top this week as Greenpeace released the updated version of their Spanish Tuna Guide, naming the Galician tuna canner as the most sustainable and eco-friendly brand on...
Indian Ocean Tuna Nations Going The PNA Way?
Over a year after signing the original Maputo Declaration in Mozambique, Tanzania has made increasingly big strides in adopting more than 50 percent of the conditions agreed on, which aim to...