The Mexican tuna fishing and processing firm, Pesca Azteca, is reducing its CO2 emission while making its fuel consumption more efficient. This is thanks to the Start-Stop system that it has...
Tuna Fishing News
Major Retailers Ask Flag States To Implement E-Monitoring
More than 50 retailers, brands, and seafood companies across the globe such as Walmart, Aldi, Asda, Carrefour, and Tesco have called on 45 flag states (like the US) to implement E-monitoring...
Women In Ivory Coast Need Better Access To Tuna
Women in Ivory Coast play a big role in the tuna value chain in the country. But they are still having difficulty obtaining fish due to the falling availability of fish and middlemen who...
American Samoa To Begin Work On New Dock For Local Longliners
The domestic longliners in American Samoa will soon be able to anchor without any issues on the island as the construction of a new berthing area, which extends the current dock at Malaloa...
Deaths On Board Chinese Vessel Due To Lack Of Medical Care
A new report published by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) stated that four Indonesian crew members on board a Chinese tuna longliner died after they were denied medical care. Hence,...
Major Global Tuna Highlights April 2020
In April, there were major changes across the globe in the tuna industry due to the coronavirus. Tuna prices starting falling in several markets while the US oil price dropped to a negative...
New Technology To Track Drifting Longlines
A project in Australia is proposing a new technology to prevent accidental drift of lines into no-fishing areas of marine parks. The initiative is being carried out by Tuna Australia and it...
Low Skipjack Demand Affecting Maldivian Exports
Maldivian fish export earnings dived in 2019, mainly due to a big market drop in consignments of frozen skipjack to Thailand. Seafood shipments constituted 95 percent of the total national...
Atuna Team Celebrates World Tuna Day
In honor of the World Tuna Day, the Atuna team would like to share with our readers some of the tuna dishes with which we celebrate the occasion during lunch. Clockwise: tuna poke bowl, tuna...
2020 Marks Memorable Affair For Celebrating The Mighty Tuna
World Tuna Day this year has a different flavor to it. Although a quiet affair, this annual event is still going to be a memorable one for different reasons. In 2017, the UN officially...
NGOs Sue Trump’s Administration For Bluefin Bycatch Law
Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against US authorities stating that a new federal bycatch law “threatens the very foundation of the bluefin population” and goes against the...
Seiner Denied To Leave Port Amid Observer’s Murder Investigation
Kiribatian authorities have opened a murder investigation following the suspicious death of a national observer on board a Taiwanese tuna purse seiner. Consequently, the vessel remains...
Tuna Facts That Will Amaze You
Happy World Tuna Day! May 2 marks the annual World Tuna Day, a time to celebrate and honor our favorite fish. This United Nations initiative was created in 2017 to bring attention to the...
Small-Scale Fisheries Collateral Damage In IUU Battle?
In recent years, much attention has been given to the issue of IUU fishing and how to battle this problem. Newly released research looks at how IUU discourses and regulations are undermining...
El Niño Impact On Tuna Fishing Exaggerated?
El Niño is known for its devastating consequences across the world such as droughts, flooding, and increasing sea surface temperatures. A new study on this climate pattern and its effects on...
Waiting Game Puts Seychelles Skipjack Price In Doldrums
There has been hardly any change in the market situation in the Indian Ocean (IO), which is reflected in the skipjack price. Due to the coronavirus crisis, production in the processing plants...
US Coast Guard Boards Venezuelan Seiner Looking For Drugs
The Venezuelan tuna purse seiner ‘Taurus I,’ which fishes in the Pacific near the Costa Rican coast, was intercepted and boarded by the US Coast Guard (USCGC) on April 28. This was done in an...
Record Yellowfin Catch Could Have Been ‘Priceless’
Days before the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed, a fisherman in the US state of Mississippi caught a yellowfin weighing over 107 kilograms. The tuna was certified as a state-record. It was...
Almost All ISSF Members Comply With Their Own Standards
A new ISSF report shows that its member companies have an almost perfect rate of conformance with their own standards. The document, Commitment and Collaboration, claims to present...
Usufuku Honten Longliner Designed To Attract Younger Crew
The design of the tuna longliner, ‘Shofuku Maru No. 1’ is not only attractive but it was created to relieve the stress of the crew who spend months fishing at sea and to attract younger...