2024 is coming to a close and what a year it has been for the global tuna industry. The Red Sea Crisis pushed freight prices to the peak in April hindering canned tuna trade but the delayed...
Fishing
PNG Ports Handled Largest Transshipments In November
Transshipments in PNA ports dropped in November despite increased catches that month. Most of the activity was carried out in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ports. A total of 75,200 tons of tuna were...
Cook Islands Tuna Fleet Captures Dropped In 2023
The tuna catches of Cook Islands' industrial domestic fleet – comprising longliners and purse seiners – plummeted in 2023. Climate variations linked to El Niño and absence of chartered vessels...
Vietnamese Processors Disappointed As Business Dropped In November
Vietnam was expecting exponential growth in its tuna exports as 2024 comes to a close. But business in November was disappointing for the Asian nation’s tuna producers. Export sales value for...
Daily Skipjack Catches In WCPO Showed Improvement In November
The overall catch rate in the WCPO in November increased by 13 percent compared to the previous month. Vessels also fished a lot more skipjack daily, mostly in the high seas and the Papua New...
US Senators Push For Stronger Action Against IUU Fishing With New Bill
Earlier this week, two US senators pushed for bipartisan legislation named the Global Fisheries Act of 2024 to combat IUU fishing and prevent the sale, supply, or purchase of endangered...
India’s Intervention Yet Again Blocks WTO Fisheries Subsidies Talks
India has demanded alterations to the fisheries subsidies draft negotiation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting held in Geneva earlier this week. The country, which has lately been...
High Skipjack Catches Boosted WCPO Seiner Volumes In November
Purse seine captains increased their fishing operations in the WCPO in November compared to the previous month. Seiners netted more skipjack, small yellowfin and bigeye. The operations were...
Fijian Longliner Catches Plummet To Six-Year Low
The Fijian national tuna longlining fleet shrunk drastically in the past six years. The COVID-pandemic also impacted vessel operations which led to reduced volumes of albacore, yellowfin, and...
Are Worries About Indian Ocean Yellowfin Population Over?
Is the Indian Ocean yellowfin stock recovering. IOTC scientists certainly seem to think so as they recently concluded that the yellowfin population is healthy, even though it was established...
EU To Tighten Shark Trade Monitoring After Citizen Initiative
The European Commission is taking an EU citizen's initiative to stop the shark fin trade seriously. The Commission announced yesterday that the monitoring of shark products entering and...
Greenpeace Reveals Continued Human Rights Violations On Taiwanese Tuna Vessels
Greenpeace Southeast Asia recently published an investigative report on the plight of migrant crew working onboard Taiwanese vessels, and how they are being financially exploited. Several...
India’s Multi-Million Andaman & Nicobar Project To Boost Tuna Industry
The Indian government has approved INR 58 crore (USD 6.84 million) for the recently established Andaman and Nicobar “tuna cluster” initiative. This was announced last week by the Minister of...
Micronesian Vessels’ Tuna Catches In WCPO Hit Five-Year Low In 2023
The catches of Micronesian and foreign-flagged vessels in the country's EEZ dropped drastically in 2023. The captures by Micronesian-flagged vessels were the lowest since 2019. This was...
Matthew McConaughey’s Amazing Tuna Salad Recipe & Other Social Media Stories
American actor Matthew McConaughey put himself in the limelight with a tuna salad recipe that he revealed on the comedy podcast ‘2 Bears 1 Cave’. The video begins with the actor saying “I’m a...
Study Says That PMNM MPA Does Not Benefit Bigeye & Yellowfin Fisheries
Do marine protected areas (MPAs) benefit fisheries as assumed? It is a pertinent question given that many governments worldwide are working on achieving the UN 30 X 30 goal, to designate 30...
NOAA Wants Public Comments For US Vessels’ EPO Fishing Restrictions
The US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has proposed a set of regulations that could be implemented for the management of US purse seiners and longliners targeting bigeye, yellowfin,...
Experts Warn Of Adverse Climate Impacts On Bluefins
The effects of climate change are evident on the planet and its impact on fisheries is inevitable. Several studies have asserted how this phenomena impacts bluefin fisheries. According to...
European Tuna Conference 2025 Theme Revealed
Atuna is organizing the European Tuna Conference on May 5, 2025, in Barcelona, Spain. We are very happy to announce the ETC2025 theme: Navigating The Evolving Tuna Landscape: Balancing...
Pacific Fisheries Council Reminds Why MPA Expansion Could Be Fatal For Fishers
The expansion of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could have a drastic effect on Pacific Islands’ small-scale fishers pushing them into high seas competition. This sentiment was yet again...