The Bermeo World Tuna Capital (BWTC) executives are currently in New York to participate in the UN High-Level Political Forum. Two events were lined out, one that took place yesterday and...
Fishing
Korea’s Famous Busan Tuna And Fish Market To Get Facelift
Busan is all set to get a renovated fish market, which would be one of the largest tuna and other seafood hubs in the country. The Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced yesterday...
PNG Refuses To Budge On Hard Stance On Deep Sea Mining
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is determined not to allow deep-sea mining near its waters. Prime Minister James Marape recently underlined his strong disagreement to deep-sea mining in the Bismarck...
Fiji Budget Allocates Millions Of Dollars To Tuna Sector
The Fijian government announced its 2025-26 budget earlier this month. Alitia Bainivalu, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, said that FJD 24.9 million (USD 11.03 million) is allocated to...
Gaps In IOTC Catch Data Present Challenges But Quality Is Improving
The IOTC Technical Committee on Allocation Criteria (TCAC) is ongoing this week in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and will run until Thursday. Participants are discussing the allocation system for TACs...
CNFC Forecasts Profits In H1 Despite Poor Q1 Results
State-owned deep-sea tuna fishing company China National Fisheries Corporation (CNFC) Overseas Fisheries recently announced its forecast for the January to June period. It expects an increase...
Pew Executive Explains Why PB Stocks Are Under Threat Post Crucial Meeting
The recovery of Pacific bluefin stocks has been great news, but now experts are worried about the stock in the long run. The recently concluded Working Group Meeting on Pacific bluefin...
PNA Ports Handled Lower Tuna Volumes In May
Lower tuna volumes were headed to Asian processing hubs as transshipments in PNA ports dropped by 11 percent in May, compared to the previous month. Most of the activities took place in Papua...
Can New Game-Changing Site Help EU Tuna Fishers?
Last week, EU workers and employers in the tuna and other seafood fisheries sector launched a new website, 'Social Dialogue Sea Fisheries', to share resources and drive forward joint action on...
WCPO Purse Seiners’ Daily Catch Rate Improved In May
The overall catch rate in the WCPO increased in May, propelled by successful skipjack fishing, compared to the previous month. Most of the tunas were netted in the EEZs of Nauru and Papua New...
Is IOTC Approaching A New Allocation System?
The IOTC will be discussing a fair catch allocation system for all commercial tuna and swordfish in its convention area at the 15th meeting of its Technical Committee on Allocation Criteria...
Bolton Sold Via Oceán Seiners To Pacific Ocean Companies
The Bolton Group has sold two of the three purse seiners of its subsidiary Via Oceán. Both vessels left Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for Panama and are owned by two Latin American companies. The last...
Fish Tales Addresses Tuna Welfare In Pole-And-Line Fishing
Dutch sustainable tuna brand Fish Tales announced the start of a project on improving tuna welfare in pole-and-line fisheries. A sensitive subject that is not widely publicized by brands and...
Three Pacific Islands Want To Extend Their EEZs
Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu have taken a major step to secure 453,400 square kilometres of shared ocean heritage. They submitted Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) documents to the UN...
ISSF Report Shows Members Still Need To Work On Conservation Measures
The ISSF recently published its Annual Conservation Measures report, and it revealed a 99.62 percent conformance of its participating companies, with a 0.38 percent non-conformance. The 'ISSF...
WCPO Seiner Owners Rejoice As Skipjack Catches Showed Sharp Uptick
The overall fishing effort and catches of purse seiners fishing in the WCPO increased in May, compared to the previous month. Consequently, vessels netted 41 percent more skipjack catches....
Environmental Groups Warn Of Allocating Increased Pacific Bluefin Catches
The Pacific bluefin stock has improved greatly through years of efforts of flag states under the management of WCPFC and IATTC. WCPFC recently posted on social media that the species has...
Card Game Helps To Improve Financial Literacy Of Indonesian Fishers
Fluctuations in tuna supply and demand make financial management difficult for Indonesian small-scale fishers and their families. IPNLF Indonesia, supporting the livelihood of these fisheries,...
Korean County Orders To Dump Bluefin For Exceeding Limits
This week, Korean fishers on the eastern coast of South Korea in Yeongdeok County had to discard their haul of bluefin catches, because they had fished over the quota. Officials said the tuna...
The Impact Of WCPFC FAD Ban On Skipjack Catches
The WCPFC FAD ban came into force on July 1 and the supply of skipjack to processing hubs, such as Bangkok, will be impacted in the coming weeks. The ban runs for one and a half months until...