Spanish flagged tuna purse seiners will be the first to get a “blue box” installed to monitor the activity of the vessels. The device allows for determination of the position, speed, course,...
Fishing
All FADs In The Water To Be Tracked By Authorities?
The PNA are to benefit from an extension of funding by the Pew Charitable Trust of the FAD-tracking project. Helping local fishery managers track and regulate the floating objects and the...
Indonesia’s 3rd Tuna Forum To Expand Pole And Line Catch
The next steps for the nation’s tuna fishery development is hot on the agenda as Indonesia hosts its 3rd International Coastal Tuna Business Forum later this month. The world largest tuna...
Access To EU Not Main Concern For Fiji
With the fresh tuna industry deep in crisis, Fiji’s fishing industry has more serious matters to worry about than its access to the EU market. This is the view of Grahame Southwick, Fiji Fish...
AAFA & WFOA Share On MSC Albacore
Two tuna fisheries are joining forces, as they announce the merging of their individual MSC certifications. The American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA) and Western Fishboat Owners...
Solomons Trains Officials In Local Tuna Industry
It’s been back to the classroom for Solomon Islands Fisheries officials and tuna industry managers, as they spent last week getting to know the ins and outs of the country’s USD 45 million...
EU Pays Senegal EUR 46,000 Per Vessel
The EU is paying EUR 8.69 million in its latest spend to buy access for European flagged tuna vessels to foreign EEZs. With 36 tuna fishing vessels included in a deal with Senegal, the two...
Are Special Conservation Zones Achieving Anything?
With only one percent of the world’s ocean fully closed to fishing vessels and their operations, are cornered off conservation zones really achieving their desired impact? Over recent years,...
Will PNA Fishing Day Scarcity Increase Skipjack Price? What Did You Think?
With an expected scarcity in PNA tuna fishing days on the horizon, there is a clear divide in opinion on whether this will increase the Bangkok market skipjack price. As many as 64 percent of...
Bangkok Skipjack Price Slowly Climbing
There’s a slow, but so far sure climb in the Bangkok market skipjack price, edging up to USD 1,250 per ton. We’ve updated the atuna.com Tuna Market Price Watch page and identified some...
Tamper-Proof Onboard Cameras On Longliners
An initial project, trialing the use of tamper-proof onboard cameras for longline tuna vessels in the Pacific is due to complete its first trip in just one month. Two vessels, testing the...
Mexico’s Yellowfin RM Exports Halved
The EU has become less of an important market for the Mexican fleet over the last 2 years. The country’s shipments of frozen whole round yellowfin RM (raw material) tuna to Spain have been...
Aussies: Duty Phase Out Takes Too Long
Elimination of southern bluefin tuna tariffs as part of a Japanese free trade agreement is taking too long, according to the Australian Port Lincoln tuna industry. Several agricultural groups...
Peruvian Firm To Bet On Tuna Expansion
Tuna Expansion is on the cards for Peruvian company, Pesquera Hayduk, as it plans to inject USD 7 million into its tuna fishing division. The company will adapt part of its fleet and...
Canadian Outcry Over Longliners Exaggerated
The fear of longliners entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence for tuna fishing this year is an exaggerated non-issue according to Canadian Federal Fisheries Minister, Gail Shea. She believes...
UN Could Limit High Seas Tuna Fishing
Limits on tuna fishing across 50 percent of the Earth’s surface, covered by the High Seas, could be decided by the United Nations (UN) by September 2015. Recently, the first of three...
Global Ocean Action Summit: Less Talk, More Walk On Tuna
It’s not a secret that most of the tuna industry believes more action and participation and less meetings are needed to protect the future sustainability of our ocean resource. And that was...
DWFNs Not Providing Scientists Pacific Catch Data
Scientific assessment of tuna catch in the WPO is being hampered by the lack of data provided by some distant water fishing nations (DWFNs). A recent meeting of over 20 stock assessment...
415 Million In Tuna Vessels Delivered To Indian Ocean
EMATUM tuna fishing company is set to receive up to 11 tuna fishing vessels by July. The Mozambique government initiated firm is due to start operating this year with the arrival of the ships...
Mayotte Becomes A Tuna Rich EEZ Of The EU
Seychelles flagged tuna vessels to fish in tuna rich waters of the EU, now that for the Indian Ocean island territory Mayotte an agreement has been made to allow for access of these purse...