With the pending prospect of selling more fishing days, fishermen in the Cook Islands have reported that purse seiner fishing activity may be having an impact on yellowfin catches this year....
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Echebastar Free-School MSC On Its Final Stretch?
The Indian Ocean Echebastar purse seine free-school fishery, outputting over 10,000 tons per year, has been given a thumbs-up from independent fishery auditors, and while successful MSC...
Treaty Talks: Lots Of Chat But Little Action
After lots of talk and significant friction among involved parties, US Treaty negotiations have resulted in little action. As confirmed by sources representing both US boatowners and PNA...
Tuna Fisheries First To Be Confronted With EU Bycatch Reduction Policies
With the introduction of the EU’s bycatch landing obligation under the 2013 reformed Common Fisheries Policy, tuna fisheries will be first to be confronted with the new law to reduce...
SKJ Price Fall, Part Of Global Food Commodity Trend?
While many warn of a future of food shortages, and in the tuna industry, of exhaustion of the resource, for now it seems like a global oversupply is in our hands. Mirroring the trend of global...
ISSF President: Passion Gets In The Way Of Science
Discussing the conflicting debates between passionate and science based parties in the tuna industry, ISSF’s President, Susan Jackson gave an inspirational speech for the Technology,...
EPO Dolphins Could Be Doing Better Than We Were Told
Decades of fishery science, including that which backs issues related to dolphin-safe, could be proven wrong, as abundance estimates for EPO dolphin populations over the last few decades have...
Thai Union Drops Supplier Linked To Slave Labor Fish
Thai Union has taken immediate action and severed ties with a supplier that was named in a new report as having a potential link to slave labor. The investigation findings, released just last...
PNA CEO Criticized For Tough Remarks
Criticizing comments from the PNA CEO, a Maori NZ Labor Party fisheries spokesman, Rino Tirikatene, has said that words used were “downright rude,” and do not reflect well on the PNA...
Atuna Readers Offer Fresh Perspectives On Fishery Closure
Sometimes even the major players in this industry fail to see the bigger picture on specific matters, and it’s up to the rest to point out a new perspective. Well, the last few weeks have been...
Growing Supply Shrinks Bigeye Prices
Increasing supply of bigeye tuna is pushing prices down, and a gradual decline has seen recent market values drop by 3.5 percent month on month. As concern for the bigeye stock status rises...
Coastal Tuna Business Discussed By Industry & Retailer
With increasing attention given to fisheries management in the last decade, Bali, Indonesia, is set to host the 4th annual International Coastal Tuna Business Forum (ICTBF) this week, in...
PNA On Collision Course With USA
The PNA is charging at the US fleet head on, as both nations contentiously collide at treaty negotiations. According to the headline of a recent PNA newsletter, CEO Transform Aqorau stressed...
Green Light For US Samoa Longliner Prohibited Area
Despite a number of opposing votes, American Samoa’s domestic longline fleet will now be allowed to fish tuna in the Large Vessel Prohibited Area (LVPA) of the nation’s EEZ, thus contributing...
Local Fishermen Protest Against Foreign IUU
The capital of Somalia was taken over by an anti-IUU rally last week, as local fishermen protest against illegal fishing in Somaliland waters. Mogadishu was on fire with dissent last week, as...
Movie Star Welcomes Plans For World’s Biggest Marine Reserve
An 834,000 km square patch of the Pacific Ocean is set to become the world’s largest marine reserve, as the UK’s government goes ahead with plans to fence off the marine protected area (MPA)...
Could Vessel Penalties Reduce Bigeye Bycatch?
Remarks made at the recent PNA meeting in Yap, FSM, brought up the possibility of introducing a management measure capable of reducing the bycatch of bigeye in tuna fisheries. This idea...
Bumble Bee Reacts To Demands For Traceability
After a drastically low ranking in a recent tuna shopping guide, Bumble Bee seems to be upping its sustainability game, reacting to consumer demand for increased traceability. On target for...
Poll Vote Clear: Fishing Stop Within The Next Month?
Last week the PNA decided to take no initiative whatsoever on a possible fishing closure in the Pacific, but is due to meet with seiner operators to discuss the eventuality of a one or two...
Contrasting Opinions On MSC Eligibility For Cook Islands Longliners
After reporting on the MSC assessment for the albacore longline fishery in the Cook Islands last week, a source known to atuna.com contacted us to clarify some matters and give his opinion on...