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Friend Of The Sea Making China Green At Affordable Prices
The recent revelation that the Chinese tuna fleet has breached catch quotas for yellowfin and bigeye for several years is said to be good news for Friend of the Sea, which is now receiving...
IATTC Urged To Match Bluefin Measures With WCPFC
Resuming the 87th annual meeting yesterday, member nations of the IATTC are being urged by environmental NGOs to come to consensus on bluefin conservation measures and significantly cut...
East African Nations Congregate To Push Small Scale Tuna Fishing
Several fisheries researchers, including fisheries officers of WWF, have been stressing the importance of artisanal tuna fishing and regional industry collaboration to delegates at the 5th...
Japan To Cut Bluefin Trade With Mexico As Pressure Tool?
The Japanese Fisheries Agency has been suggesting that the country’s importers should refrain from accepting Pacific bluefin tuna from Mexican traders, in case Mexican fisheries officials...
John West: “Greenpeace Video Is Not Our Fleet”
In response to a Greenpeace video released last week, featuring footage from whistleblowers aboard Spanish and French tuna vessels, John West UK has published that the vessels referenced are...
Could Shark Repellent Avoid Bycatch In Tuna Fisheries?
Oceana has reported that a scent based shark repellent could be the solution to shark bycatch in swordfish fisheries, and having spoken with the experts, atuna.com found that the...
RD’s PNG License Renewal Won’t Be Easy
At the close of 2014, Filipino firm, RD Corp., will meet the expiry of its 20 year licenses to both catch and process tuna in Papua New Guinea. PNG’s Minister of Fisheries, Mao Zeming, has...
Dongwon Shares Fall Hard From 5-Yr High
Following a strong surge on the Korean Stock Exchange, in just two months, shares in Dongwon Industries (006040:KS) have shown a substantial decline. A sustained period of low stock trading...
Historic Pacific Albacore Agreement, But Not Binding
Pacific island nations have made the decision to take more control over the depleting population of the albacore tuna fishery, and have reached a historic agreement to manage fishing effort...
Aussie Catches ‘Tunicorn’
An Australian angler was amazed when he caught a ‘tunicorn’ this week near Osprey reef, Queensland; a tuna and a unicorn in one catch. The 64 year old fisherman, Kim Haskell, caught the...
NFI: “Greenpeace Video Gets The Facts On FADs Wrong”
In response to a previous video released by Greenpeace, targeting the bycatch issues of tuna purse seiners, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has also released...
New Treaty Could Drive US Samoa Fleet Out Of Business
The American Samoa based tuna fleet could be driven completely out of business with the recent news that Kiribati has drastically dropped the amount of days it will give to the US Tuna Treaty....
MSC Tuna: Is It Growing Fast Enough?
Shooting up nearly 300 percent in volume, in just one year, sales of MSC ecolabelled tuna have almost quadrupled; a more than significant escalation. But while these sustainably certified tuna...
Costa Rica Establishes No-Purse Seiner Zone
The Costa Rican President, Luis Guillermo Solis, has signed an Executive Decree establishing territorial limits on tuna fishing along the coast, reports The Costa Rica Star, explaining...
PNG Exchanges Tuna Experiences With African Nations
Papua New Guinea appears to be taking steps towards exchanging experiences on the management of local tuna resources and cooperation with local processing industries, after attending the 2014...
Frinsa First Spanish Canner To Join SFP
Grupo Frinsa, definitely one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of canned tuna, has recently joined the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), becoming, according to the Galician company,...
Spanish Tuna Industry Courting PNA Nations
With what appears a significant change in attitude, the Spanish tuna industry seems keen to build stronger ties with PNA nations. This was made clear with the Spanish government’s recent...
Are FAD Bans Helping To Reduce Bigeye Mortality?
In what appears to be a yearly recurring trend, the end of the recent three month WCPO FAD ban has again seen another surge in FAD associated catches and landings, the recent sharp decline in...
Nations Meet On Zone Based Management Of Pacific Albacore
The big item on the agenda at the current 17th meeting of the Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) of the FFA is albacore tuna; how nations can work together to effectively tackle the stock-wide...