Crew safety has become one of the most talked-about issues in the fishing industry in the last couple of years. Boat owners and organizations looking to stand out from the pack and take a step...
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Albacora Expands Tuna Fishing Operations With Tanzania Deal
Albacora is expanding its overseas tuna operations and has registered its subsidiary, Pemba Tuna Limited, in Tanzania. The Spanish tuna fishing company will also help train local sailors and...
10-Year International Fishers Safety Treaty Still Far From Implementation
The Cape Town Agreement (CTA) has been ratified by Kenya, bringing the list of countries supporting the initiative to 17. Despite the pact being formed a decade ago, this is still distant from...
WCPO Transshipment Volumes Took A Big Drop In February
Fewer loads of tuna were transshipped in PNA ports in February following a fall in overall catches by purse seiners in the Western Central Pacific region. Transshipment volumes fell by 23...
PNG Industry Wants Deep Cuts In VDS Tuna License Fees
The PNG Fishing Industry Association (FIA) wants the country's fishing policies to be revised so that domestic seiners can get cheaper VDS days. Otherwise, PNG's economy will be negatively...
Japanese Longliner On Fire, Four Crew Members Missing
A Japanese-flagged tuna longliner caught fire 185 kilometers southeast off the coast of the island of Tanegashima on March 21. The vessel, ‘Yujinmaru No. 51’, had a crew of eight fishermen on...
WCPO Catches Declined In February After Slight Recovery
In the WCPO waters, purse seine captains caught less tuna in February. This was partly due to slightly less fishing effort deployed during this time, although, skipjack and yellowfin daily...
Sovereign Guarantee Of 11.3 Million EUR For Tuna Cannery In Angola
The President of Angola, João Lourenço, has approved a state guarantee loan so that the company Alva Fishing can build a canned tuna processing plant in the country. The project was...
Ripple Effect Of Diesel Shortage Hits Tuna Sector
The war in Eastern Europe has thrown global commodity markets into turmoil and crude oil and other refined products such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, LPG, and biofuels have all been strongly...
ISSF: Global Tuna Supply Shrank By 10 Percent In 2020
Global catches of tuna have kept increasing in recent years reaching record-breaking volumes. However, 2020 represented a year-on-year decrease although the level was still among the all-time...
Sicily Wants To Preserve Bluefin ‘Tonnare’
In Sicily, Italy, a new governmental initiative was recently launched to promote the dissemination, especially among young people, of knowledge about tuna and the many “Tonnare” (Italian...
Vast Industrial Fishing Activity In “Blue Hole” High Seas
Greenpeace has said that there is a vast fleet of industrial fishing vessels plundering in the high seas of the South Atlantic. It has strongly urged the UN along with world governments to...
ISSF: Healthy Tuna Stocks On The Decline
The level of healthy tuna stocks around the world is dropping according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Tuna species in the biggest catching area, the WCPO,...
RFMOs Need Clear Procedures Over VMS Malfunction
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation recently published a report identifying the vessel monitoring systems (VMS) used by tuna and other seafood RFMOs. The document also explores...
Seafood Watch Adds IO Yellowfin To Red List
The American-based program Seafood Watch has added yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) among its red-listed species. Recently, at the Boston Seafood Expo, the Maldivian Minister of Fisheries,...
CNFC Implements The Belt And Road Initiative In The Pacific
Chinese deep-sea fishing company CNFC will be expanding its maritime projects and activities in the coming years, especially in terms of tuna in the Pacific. It also wants to grow from a...
Tuna Fishing Fleets Asking Governments For Relief Over Rising Fuel Costs
Fishing fleets around the world are lamenting over high fuel costs and they have been asking governments for tax subsidies or they will have to stop their operations. The tuna sector has been...
Skipjack In Manta Rising Quickly As Fishing Dives & Demand Surges
At the Manta port the price of tuna has been strongly rising, reaching high levels not seen for almost two years. Poor fishing and increased raw material demand seem to be the main factors...
Manta Wants Iconic Tuna Monument Back
It has been two years since the iconic yellowfin, El Atún, was removed from its historic location just next to the Manta Port. There was no space for it anymore in the new layout of the...
OPAGAC Objector Withdraws At The Last Minute
The objection against the OPAGAC MSC certification in the WCPO has been ongoing for the last five months since the Coalition for Transparent Tuna Fisheries (CTTF) officially opposed the...