Spanish Fisheries Minister Luis Planas lauded the efforts of his nation’s tuna fleet for promoting sustainability and profitability in the global fishing sector. Planas, who was closing the...
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Chinese Port Is Turning Heads For Easing Tuna Landing Procedures
Rongcheng Port in China is gaining appreciation from tuna companies in the country. Earlier this year, its customs department launched a set of initiatives to make landings and other...
Panama Takes A Step Further To Improve Fisheries Transparency
Panama is the latest nation to show its commitment to sustainable management of tuna and other marine resources. The Latin American nation joined the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI)...
US Longline Catches Showed Uptick In 2023 As Fleet Grew
In 2023, the US and its territorial longliners captured the second-largest volumes of highly migratory species (HMS) such as tuna, billfish, and swordfish in the WCPFC convention area, among...
Fishing Ban In EPO Generates Thousands Of Jobs In Manta Port
The first veda in the EPO ended on October 8, allowing a part of the seiner fleets to resume their normal operations. Within the coming month, the tuna supply to canneries in Manta is expected...
Micronesia’s Longliner Operations Soon To Get More E-Monitoring
Soon there will be more electronic monitoring (EM) and surveillance for tuna longliners flagged to the Federated States of Micronesia. This will help strengthen transparency and control of...
Shrinking US Seiner Fleet Rallies With Higher Catches In 2023
The US purse seine fishery is the largest in the country. In 2023, seiners captured 85 percent of the total tuna catches by the US in the WCPFC convention area. According to its annual report,...
Ecuador Needs To Improve Its Public Data On Tuna Fisheries Activities
Ecuador is committed to transparency and sustainability in its management of tuna and other seafood in its EEZ and the Galapagos Islands. The South American country recently published its...
Madrid Is All Set To Host OPAGAC’s Sixth National Tuna Congress
The sixth edition of the National Tuna Congress, organized by OPAGAC, will be held on October 10 in Madrid. The main focus of this year’s event is the strategic role of the Spanish purse seine...
Kiribati Fishers Are Thriving At Australian Tuna Farm
Kiribati fishermen who have been working with Australian Fishing Enterprises (AFE), a Port Lincoln-based bluefin fattening company, are all smiles when they talk about their jobs. Over 82...
NOAA Rolls Out Implementation Plan For Its Seafood Strategy
NOAA Fisheries released an implementation plan for the actions that stemmed from its first National Seafood Strategy released in 2023. The domestic tuna sector could benefit from set goals and...
Philippines Approves Millions For Project In Tuna-Rich Province
Philippines is expected to start a cold chain project in Bislig City, known for its tuna fishing activities. Authorities at the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Program...
EU-Morocco Fisheries Deal Declared Invalid By EU Court
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last week that the tuna and other fisheries agreements between Morocco and the bloc will be invalid because it failed to include consultations...
Crew Forced To Stay Onboard Longliners Amid Typhoon Krathon In Taiwan
A group of Indonesian migrant workers have been illegally made to stay on board tuna longliners and other fishing vessels in Taiwan’s Donggang Township amid Typhoon Krathon. The government had...
UK Takes Historic Step Handing Over Tuna-Rich Chagos Islands To Mauritius
The long-standing dispute over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean is finally settled. In a joint statement yesterday, the UK announced that it has granted Mauritius full sovereignty over...
Will EU Introduce Ban To Curb Bycatch In Bay of Biscay?
The EU might introduce a one-month ban in the Bay of Biscay for its vessels to prevent the bycatch of dolphins and other cetaceans. This would affect over 300 tuna and other fishing boats that...
MSC Initiated Study Looks Into “Drivers” Of Tuna Certifications
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification is the most sought-after sustainable logo in the fisheries industry. A recently published study looked into understanding the drivers of tuna and...
Record Skipjack Catches Propel Half Year Volumes Of Filipino boats
Philippines-flagged vessels caught more tuna and tuna-like species from January to June this year, compared to the same period in 2023. A total of 263,180 M/T of skipjack, yellowfin, bigeye,...
Vietnam’s Latest Move In An Attempt To Remove EU Yellow Card
Vietnamese province Binh Dinh is all set to go strict on IUU fishing by ensuring that all the tuna and other seafood small-scale vessels based in its region will install voyage monitoring...
Filipino Company Invests To Boost Tuna Operations In Northern Samar
A Philippines-based seafood exporting company is all set to invest in tuna fishing activities in Northern Samar. Vessels based in this region have lately been catching at least 100 tons of...