WCPO seiners hit the peak in catches in November despite the drop in overall effort. It was also an excellent month for fishing skipjack. After the WCPFC FAD ban came to a close at the end of...
Tuna Fishing News
Can Canned Tuna Market Sustain Gained 2020 Volume Next Year?
This year has proven to be good business for the tuna industry -- retail sales for canned products went through the roof early in the year with customers hoarding shelf-stable goods during the...
IATTC Agrees On Conservation Measures, Rolls Over For An Extra Year
IATTC members finally reached a consensus about the EPO's tropical tuna conservation management measures for 2021 during an extraordinary session that took place virtually yesterday. The RFMO...
Jiajia Food Abandons Tuna Fishery Takeover
On December 20, Chinese condiment producer JiaJia Food Group informed its stakeholders that the major asset restructuring which was needed to take over tuna company Dalian Ocean Fishing (DOF)...
Tuna Fisheries Work To Reduce Turtle Bycatch
Global tuna fisheries have many measures pertaining to stock management. However, RFMOs also need to keep a close eye on the environmental impacts of tuna fishing including that of bycatch....
Canada Wanted Reduced Tuna Quota In Western Atlantic
Canada would have preferred if the quota for Western Atlantic bluefin had been reduced for 2021. ICCAT recently rolled over the existing total allowable catch (TAC) of 2,350 M/T for the next...
Machine Learning Predicts Forced Labor Risk On Longliners
A new machine learning model shows that industrial vessels known to have crews that are subject to forced labor behave in systematically different ways than the rest of the global fishing...
US Revokes Visas Of Chinese Tuna Execs
As the era of the Trump administration is reaching its end, US officials continue to be adamant in condemning China’s alleged illegal trade activities. On this note, the State Department’s...
WTO Misses Deadline On Harmful Fisheries Subsidies
The World Trade Organization's (WTO) negotiators failed to meet the December 14 deadline to agree on rules to ban harmful fisheries subsidies as part of the UN's sustainable development...
Dongwon In Top 10 Most Active Firms In High Seas
A team of researchers has found that around two-thirds of the total detected fishing effort on the high seas is carried out by vessels belonging to 10 major corporations, several of them...
Philippines Bank To Aid Small-Scale Tuna Fishermen
BPI Foundation, the social development arm of the Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI), has set up the ‘Sulong Pinoy’ program to make Christmas this year more meaningful for local tuna...
Japan’s Plan To Offer USD 300 Mil Loan For Mauritius Oil Spill Under Fire
Japan is planning to offer USD 300 million in loans to Mauritius following a major oil spill off the island nation’s coast in July, which was caused by the Japanese freighter, ‘Wakashio’....
WCPFC Measure On Mobulid Ray Bycatch Starts In 2021
The WCPFC's Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) on mobulid rays by WCPO fisheries in both high seas and EEZs will come into force on January 1, 2021. It prohibits tuna vessels to retain,...
Spanish Seiners’ Crews To Return Home For Christmas
The part of the Spanish fleet grouped in OPAGAC is preparing the repatriation of 1,109 crew members working on its purse seiners in the Indian (IO), Atlantic (AO), and Pacific oceans. This is...
Trini The Tuna’s Annual Visit Received With Cheers
At L’Escala port in Spain, fishers and residents were joyful when the tuna they rescued five years ago remembered them and visited one more time. The bluefin, which they named Trini, has been...
Urgent Extraordinary IATTC Session To Fix Conservation Measures
IATTC has called for an extraordinary session following the flop of the 95th meeting in which no conservation rules for tropical tuna were agreed upon. Alfonso Miranda, Chair of the RFMO,...
Purse Seiner Sank Near Galapagos, Crew Safe And Sound
The tuna purse seiner 'Romeo' sank last week around the Galapagos Islands after a wave hit the boat. The crew of more than 15 fishermen were rescued by an oil vessel and taken to Panama....
IATTC Flop: Colombia Made The Scapegoat
The main reason IATTC members did not reach consensus on conservation measures for tropical tuna during the latest annual meeting was that two factions had very different views on FAD controls...
High Italian Trade Activity On Yellowfin Pre-Cooked Loins
The Italian demand for frozen pre-cooked loins remains strong in 2020, according to the latest EU trade data. Several suppliers outside the European Union managed to recover from last year’s...
Albacora & Pevasa Challenge Start-Ups To Prove Legality Of Tuna
Spanish tuna companies have launched an innovation program in the country, which looks for a formula to protect the legality of tuna resources throughout the supply chain. The BIOK! Challenge...