What looked like a breakthrough in the sustainability chain has turned out to be a miscommunication. Spanish fishing company, Albacora S.A., contacted atuna.com to inform that the information...
Fishing
Lowest Tuna Catch Reported In Last 5 Years
Samoa’s tuna catch for January has dropped to a dramatic five year low after monitoring from the country’s Fisheries Division has confirmed the landed volume. Several local fishing companies...
The Pacific Squad Of “Tuna Detectives”
Fisheries Inspectors, investigators and enforcement officers from across the Pacific are heading home following the fifth Pacific Islands Fisheries Evidence and Investigation Training Course...
Kenya To Step Up Surveillance On Its Tuna Resources
The Kenyan Government has made plans to step-up the surveillance of its waters. Fisheries stakeholders are pleased with the decision that will see the construction of the Kenyan Oceans and...
Woman With Muscle: Catches A 411kg Bluefin
After a nearly five-hour struggle, Auckland woman Donna Pascoe, landed a huge 411kg bluefin tuna, a potential world record, which requires a lot of power and endurance from the angler....
Indonesia: A Lot Of Tuna, But Little Overview
Seen as the world’s country with the highest tuna potential, Indonesia’s annual tuna production total in 2012 was 613,557 tons according to the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Being...
“Governor Has No Interest In American Samoa Tuna Industry”
Apparently, American Samoa’s Governor, Lolo Moliga, seems to have no interest in the biggest and only industry in the territory, the tuna industry. This is according to Tautai O Samoa Longline...
Limited Growth Possibilities For African Tuna Fisheries
Expansion possibilities for the EU tuna fleet in African tuna fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean are limited, according to a recent report from the European Commission. Restricted availability of...
Norway Starts Experimental Catch Of Bluefin
The Fisheries Ministry in Norway has made the decision to start a bluefin tuna fishing trial. This follows the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas’ (ICCAT) awarding...
Can Tuna And Oil Drilling Co-Exist?
Can tuna and oil drilling co-exist? The answer is yes, according to Brian Jeffriess, Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association Chief Executive Officer. Industry experts say that significant...
Albacora Introduces FAD With “Practically” Zero Bycatch Mortality
The largest vertically integrated tuna company in Europe, Albacora Group, which operates about 25% of Europe’s total purse seiner catching capacity, has introduced an innovative Fish...
Operators Have To Prove Not To Use FADs
Operators of tuna fishing vessels in Costa Rica will have to prove that they are not using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) as part of new, stricter rules announced by the country’s President,...
41 Tuna Vessels On EU IUU List
The European Union has updated its “list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing” and 41 tuna vessels have made the cut. Compiled of 67 fishing boats in total,...
Philippines To Ask Indonesia For Safe Shortcut Tuna Boats
The Philippines is to ask Indonesia to grant it a safe passage for tuna fishing vessels in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) this month. It has been said by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic...
Albacore Crisis Should No Longer Be Ignored In WCPFC
A regional effort to insist the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) to tackle the Fiji albacore crisis is necessary. This is according to WWF’s Western Central Pacific...
Longliners With Skeleton Crews Fill Up Suva’s Tuna Port
Fiji’s Suva port is getting clogged up with an increasing number of tuna longliners and trollers which have even been described by some as “an eyesore.” Authorities responsible for the harbor...
Gulf Of Bengal The Next Battle Ground For Tuna
A drop in catches of large yellowfin, supposedly fueled by poaching by foreign vessels on the East Coast has seen tuna boat operators from Visakhapatnam (Visak), India to raise concern. Over...
Re-Flagging Seiners Boosts Ecuadorian EPO Skipjack Catches
The re-flagging of six Panamanian purse seiners to the Ecuadorian bannered fleet has sent Ecuadorian skipjack tuna catches on the increase. The boats have changed nationality over the past two...
Albacore: Biologically Healthy? Commercially Sick!
Earlier this month, Atuna wrote about the views of tuna specialist, Mr. Robert Gillett, on the stocks of albacore tuna stating these to being “still really good” and not necessarily dwindling...
“Distant Water Nations Have Narrow Fishing Interests”
“Pacific Island nations need to confront distant water fishing nations to reconcile their narrow fishing interests with their broader role as key strategic and development partners of this...