A Korean company has developed a drone to detect tuna schools and signed a deal with Korean vertically integrated fishing company Silla Trading. Marine Drone Technology is currently...
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OPAGAC Praises Its Telemedicine System That Saved Life Of Spanish Sailor
The telemedicine system introduced by OPAGAC in October 2022 on Spanish purse seine vessels is a success. The pilot project is the first in the world to provide rapid medical services to crew...
Vietnam Tuna Province Passes Inquiry, No IUU Cases
Vietnam has been working relentlessly to remove its EU yellow card. A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development conducted a trip on October 15 and 16 to Phu Yen...
China Exonerates Its Longliners Accused Of IUU Fishing
The Chinese government stated that “it does not accept allegations” on three longliners that belong to Qingdao YKS Ocean Fishery fishing company that were accused of IUU fishing and human...
US And Canada Emerge As MSC Tuna Growth Markets
The US and Canada are the fastest growing markets for MSC tuna, meanwhile, the Europeans were its largest buyers. This was said by Marcelo Hidalgo, Director of Sustainability at FIA PNG, at...
Vietnam Gets Tough On Its Illegal Tuna Fishermen
Vietnam is tightening measures to curb IUU fishing by its tuna fishermen. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the government to work closely with the coastal cities to prevent its...
RD Fishing Still Moored After A Year, Origin Tuna Exports Nosedives
It has been a year and the RD Fishing fleet is still not fishing, which has seriously impacted raw material supply to its canneries, especially its Philbest cannery in the Philippines....
New Zealand Court Puts US Seiner For Sale
A US tuna purse seiner that collided with another boat four years ago in 2019 has been put up for sale by a New Zealand court. ‘Koorale,’ which is currently at Port Nelson, officially stopped...
EPO Fleets Expanded Skipjack Catches In Q3 Despite Veda
The EPO purse seining fleet largely increased their skipjack catches from July to early September with the Ecuadorian and US fleets sharply hiking their numbers. This is inspite of the veda...
Canada And UK Step Up To Fight IUU Fishing In The Pacific
Canada and the UK recently announced that they will join in the fight against illegal fishing in the tuna-rich Pacific Ocean. The nations are lending support to the Joint Analytical Cell...
Substantial Lower Skipjack Catches Signal Drop In Origin Tuna Exports
In the first six months of the year, there was a major drop in the tuna catches in the Philippines. This impacts the supply of origin tuna needed by the country’s processors to export at zero...
Homeless Man Lives On Tuna And Other Social Media Trends
Life is getting harder for many who are struggling to make ends meet and canned tuna proves to be an affordable protein for such people. TikToker NomadicRyan revealed how he lives off tuna...
Pacific Islands Must Flex Muscle Against Chinese Fleet
The Chinese have been growing their canned tuna market over the years and competing with Ecuador and Thailand, the largest tuna producing nations in the world. A representative from the...
Japanese Purse Seiner Rescues Infants And Women From The Pacific Ocean
Japanese purse seiner 'Wakaba Maru No. 7' rescued 14 people on a boat adrift 160 km off Papua New Guinea (PNG) in August. The crew of the vessel, owned by Kyokuyo Susan Co. Ltd., spotted the...
WCPFC Members Discuss Bigeye Catch And High Seas Fishing Limit
Anticipating the annual Commission meeting in December, WCPFC organizes tropical tuna workshops for stakeholders in the industry. The third one was recently held at the RFMO’s headquarters in...
Rising Costs To Squeeze Taiwan’s Seiner Sector In Near Future
The Taiwanese purse seine fleet is crucial for the global tuna industry, highlighted Chris Tsu, General Manager for Taiwan and Asia Trading for Tri Marine. Speaking at the Vigo conference. He...
Wofco Buys Sapmer’s ‘Manapany’ Purse Seiner
The Spanish Worldwide Fishing Company (Wofco) acquired a 90-meter purse seiner that was renamed ‘Ría De Aldán’. Based on its IMO number 9476238, this must be the ‘Manapany’ owned by French...
Hawaii Longliners Can Continue Sunset Fishing Bycatch Reducing Experiment
Hawaii shallow-set longline fishery have been given more time to evaluate the effect of tuna fishing one hour before and one hour after local sunset to reduce seabird bycatch. The US National...
SKJ1.8:BKK End Of Bull Market After The FAD Ban?
After months of peak levels for skipjack raw material, trade in the Bangkok processing hub seems to have rekindled, a reflection of price drop seen historically during September to October....
China Gets Two More Tuna Longliners For The Atlantic Ocean
The Chinese state-owned company Sino-Ocean Co., Ltd. has received two tuna longliners that were built by Dalian Liaoning Shipyard. The 52-meter-long vessels, ‘Jinfeng 2’ and ‘Jingfeng 4’ will...