James Tompkins, the owner of One Tuna processing plant on Prince Edward Island (PEI) in Canada, has offered his four ultra-low-temperature freezers to store the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...
Tuna Fishing News
Japan Passes New Law To Combat IUU Seafood Imports
Last week, the Japanese parliament passed a new law that will prevent IUU-sourced fish and seafood including tuna, squids, and crabs from entering the country’s market. The news was welcomed...
Seiners Contribute To Economies Even When Not Fishing
The tuna industry provides an economic boost for many companies, even during the EPO fishing closure periods. From painters to technology firms, they all take care of the seiners during this...
Aussie Govt Reminds Boat Owners About VMS During Holidays
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has reminded fishing boat operators in the country that their vessel monitoring system (VMS) units are to remain switched on at all times...
All Eyes On WCPFC Annual Meeting, Focus On HCRs
All eyes are on the next major tuna RFMO meeting this month – the WCPFC 17th Regular Session, which begins online today and will run until December 15. Last year when the 2019 Commission...
CNFC Raises Funds For Tuna Project
On December 3, the Chinese tuna vessel operator, CNFC Overseas Fisheries, issued a plan to offer non-public issuance of A shares to no more than 35 companies. The money raised from the sale...
OPAGAC’s New Member Active In EPO
The tuna fishing company Txopituna S.L has joined the Spanish Association of Large Tuna Freezers (OPAGAC). The firm focuses on purse seine fishing of yellowfin, bigeye, and skipjack in the EPO...
Illegal Fishing Crushing Kenya’s Tuna Potential
Kenya’s tuna catches account for less than one percent of the total Indian Ocean (IO) volume. This is well below this African fishery’s potential and experts claim that the reason for this is...
Atuna Readers Predicted No Consensus On FAD Sets
The 95th IATTC meeting was held last week and among the topics, stricter control on the tropical tuna FAD fishery in the EPO was discussed. Leading up to the gathering last week, there has...
IATTC Meeting Utter Flop, Members Fail To Reach Consensus
Tuna conservation measures in the EPO for 2021 were discussed during this year's annual meeting of the IATTC which concluded last Friday. However, member countries failed to reach a consensus...
Growth And Change Of Port Lincoln’s Tuna Industry
The history of the South Australian city of Port Lincoln breathes tuna and its Southern bluefin fishing goes back to the 1930s when small boats fished in the Great Australian Bight (GAB)....
EU Lifts Yellow Card On Kiribati
Kiribati can now breathe a bit easier. After nearly four and half years, the European Commission (EC) has lifted its yellow card on the country for making important progress “in addressing the...
Is EU’s Delegation’s EPO Agenda Undermined By EU Companies?
The IATTC meeting will be coming to a close today after week-long discussions. We will soon be able to see what type of measures have been agreed to be undertaken in terms of tuna stock...
MSC Suspension On Herring Fisheries Will Hit Retail Hard
This week, independent assessors announced that all eight Atlantic Scandinavian (Atlanto-Scandian) herring and blue whiting fisheries will have their MSC certificates suspended on December 30....
US Thinks It Deserves Larger Bigeye Quota
Ahead of the upcoming WCPFC meeting, the US proposal to increase the bigeye quota for the nation’s longline fleet in Hawaii has been supported by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery...
AI Software To Recognize Fish During Unloading Operations
The pilot phase of a new artificial intelligence software for fish identification and classification has been successfully completed. During the one-year project, the system had an 80 percent...
Banning FADs Reactivation In EPO Essential For Tuna Conservation
The annual IATTC meeting is currently taking place via video conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some industry representatives believe it is time for the RFMO to reach a consensus when it...
Poll: Will IATTC Reach Consensus On FAD Management Plan?
Members of the IATTC are currently in discussion as the 95th meeting is ongoing virtually from November 30 to December 4. Leading up to it, one of the hottest topics raised was about FAD...
Hawaii To Dump Wire Leaders That Threaten Sharks’ Lives
Longliners use a circle hook to mitigate bycatch volumes of non-targeted and protected species such as sea turtles and false killer whales. However, sharks are more likely to get caught by...
Global Spotlight On Ecuador For Fishing Endangered Sharks
The world’s eyes have been turning to Ecuador as its protocols to control illegal fishing have come under scrutiny. This is especially true since late last year when the EU slapped the tuna...