Spanish company Albacora is providing crew training to Seychellois youth aspiring to a career in the fishing industry. Last week, the first cadet joined a Seychelles-flagged purse seiner,...
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Tuna Vigo 2025 Speakers & Program Announced
The 12th edition of the Anfaco World Tuna Conference will start in Vigo, Spain, on September 11. The organizer expects around 400 participants from the tuna industry to attend the two-day...
WCPFC Scientists Prepare Stock Recommendations
The WCPFC Scientific Committee (SC) meeting is taking place with scientists, fisheries managers, and other stakeholders holding a debate over the world’s biggest tuna fisheries in the WCPO...
WCPO Purse Seiners Smashed Skipjack Catch Record In 2024
Purse seine fleets in the WCPO captured unprecedented levels of tropical tuna, the highest on record since the 1970s, boosted by decades-high skipjack volumes. The provisional catch was...
Maltese Environmental Watchdog Pushes Bluefin Farms To Clean Up Slime
Maltese environmental authorities instructed tuna fattening farms to carry out cleaning-up operations on the coast after beachgoers complained about slime in the waters, which prevented them...
Tuna Company Execs Sentenced To Prison For Scam
Seven defendants in the controversial illegal bluefin scam in Spain have agreed to close to two years in prison. Among them are José and Juan Pedro, former directors of the Cartagena-based...
Nauru Seiners Made A Five-Year Low Performance
The number of Nauru-flagged purse seiners dropped in 2024, and so did their catches, which stood at a five-year low last year. Nauru provided information about its purse seine operations,...
Atlantic Bluefins In Gulf Of Maine Show Major Change In Prey
A group of researchers from the University of Maine conducted a study to analyse changes in the diet of Atlantic bluefin in the Gulf of Maine, amid the population decline of Atlantic herring,...
US And Cook Islands To Study Deep-Sea Mining Possibilities
The US recently announced that it will cooperate with the Cook Islands, which has a tuna-rich EEZ, “to advance scientific research and the responsible development of seabed mineral resources.”...
Decades-Old Charlie-Shaped Radio Grabs Attention And Other Social Media Stories
A transistor radio in the shape of StarKist's mascot Charlie was popular in the 1970s, and is back in the spotlight more than five decades later. MSC released a new video on FADs to correct...
Sharp Dip In June WCPO Transshipments
The WCPO purse seine catches in June were low, leading to a 15 percent drop in transshipped volumes via ports in the PNA region. Papua New Guinea's ports had been overseeing the most...
Basque Experimental Bluefin Fattening Project Commences
The bluefin farming pilot project in the Cantabrian Sea has taken off with 50 tuna swimming in the cages, 48 km off the coast of Getaria in the Basque Country, under the scientific supervision...
Inpesca Seiner Reflagged To Oman
Spanish tuna fishing company Inpesca’s seiner ‘Txori Bi’ will fly the Omani flag here on, and will continue to be owned by the company. The seiner will fish in the Indian Ocean along with...
Climate Justice For The Pacific Islands
-VIEWPOINT – When the Scientific Committee (SC) of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meets this week, it will consider updated analysis and advice from the...
Former CFTO Seiners Renamed, Questions Over Omani Buyer Director
The Omani company Rawanq Al Salam International has renamed the three seiners it bought from CFTO to ‘Layla’, ‘Hawwa’, and ‘Nour’, flying the Omani banner. The vessels sailed previously under...
How Will EC Respond To Court Ruling On EU FAD Ban Objection?
The General Court of the European Union has invalidated the European Commission's (EC) refusal to review the EU's objection to an IOTC resolution on drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs),...
WCPO 2024 Tuna Catches Reached Unprecedented Level
Tuna catches in the WCPO exceeded 3 million tons in 2024, the highest ever in this oceanic area, driven by incredible volumes of skipjack netted by purse seine fleets. This was revealed in the...
Dakartuna Frustrated With Obstacles For P&L Fleet Moored In Senegal
There is no light at the end of the tunnel for the Spanish pole-and-line fleet under Dakartuna. The four vessels have been moored for more than nine months in Dakar Port in Senegal since...
Low Skipjack Levels Pushed WCPO Catch Rates Down In June
The total catches in the WCPO in June decreased, and so did the daily catch rate that month. The highest rates were reported in the EEZs of Papua New Guinea (PNG) Nauru, and Palau. Atuna...
US To Pay The Promised USD 60 Million To Pacific Islands
The US will release USD 60 million to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) under the South Pacific Tuna Treaty. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced it earlier...