A Japanese High Court has upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a claim by former tuna fishermen and bereaved relatives for state compensation over hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll,...
Tuna Fishing News
No Strides Made At WCPFC On Harvest Strategies
No headway was made to modernize fisheries management and protect tuna stocks at the 16th Session of WCPFC, which concluded yesterday. Member states of the RFMO did...
Japan Gets Extra Bluefin Quota From Taiwan For 2020
The WCPFC meeting, which concluded yesterday, confirmed and approved Japan's acquisition of an extra catch quota of 300 M/T for large bluefin – weighing 30 kilograms or more...
Ecuador’s TUNA PAN Includes Stricter Small Seiner Monitoring
Ecuador has adopted a national action plan through which it aims to improve its fisheries management and aid in getting rid of the yellow card handed by the EU in late...
WCPFC’s Voluntary Guidelines For Seabirds’ Safety
The issue of safeguarding seabirds from becoming tuna bycatch was discussed during the WCPFC 16 meeting, which is currently taking place in Port Moresby, PNG. Consequently, the...
PNG Prime Minister: IUU Vessels Will Be Sunk
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, James Marape, has warned that illegal fishing vessels in its waters will be sunk. “I take this time to put illegal fishermen on notice. When I build up...
Greenpeace Sees “Modern Slavery” On Asian Tuna Seiners
Greenpeace South Asia recently published a report ‘Seabound: The Journey to Modern Slavery on the High Seas’. The NGO investigated the living and working conditions of migrant...
Glacial Progress On Key Priorities At WCPFC 2019
Negotiations are still ongoing at the 16th Session of the WCPFC gathering at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on the essential issues of the tuna industry in the region. However, little...
FFA Reiterates Its Founding Role In WCPFC
The Director-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, has highlighted that FFA's members were the founders of the Tuna...
GFW Satelite Data Tracks Panamanian Tuna Seiners, Sometimes
A few months ago, Panama underlined the necessity of monitoring vessels and transshipments and combating illegal fishing. For greater transparency and to enforce compliance in its fleet,...
Accurate Transhipment Tuna Weights With Dynamometers
Measuring exactly how much tuna a purse seiner catches is not an easy task. In fact, to this day, observers and purse seiner captains work with estimates. Traditional scales are not suitable...
Costa Rican Fishers Demand Stricter Surveillance On International Seiners
In Costa Rica, volunteers aiming to present a request to the government for better surveillance of purse seiner fishing in the country’s waters have already collected thousands...
Filipino Fishers To Earn Blockchain Tokens For Their Tuna
Fishermen in Philippines can soon earn a peso-backed stablecoin from a blockchain-based fish traceability pilot program called Tracey. The initiative aims to facilitate sustainable...
WCPFC 16 Key Priorities Include Proper Harvest Strategies
The 16th Regular Session of the WCPFC is beginning today and member nations, governmental organizations, NGOs, and other parties will be discussing numerous core issues that affect the...
Filipino And Indo Seiners Net More Juvenile Fish In WCPO
Small seiners in the domestic fisheries of Indonesia and Philippines catch more juvenile tuna with associated sets – skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye – compared to other countries, says a...
Panama’s Tuna Fleet Is Now Traceable Online
Panama has underlined the importance of monitoring vessels and transshipments by the release of its vessel tracking data via Global Fishing Watch (GFW). From now on, the activities of over 150...
Lischewski’s Counsel Wants To Appeal “Guilty” Verdict
The defense for the former CEO of Bumble Bee, Chris Lischewski, said he was disappointed in the “guilty” verdict, which was handed out to the accused yesterday. On...
RD Seiner Rescues Five After A Week Of Drifting
The crew of RD Fishing purse seiner Dolores 787 has rescued two adults and three children from a drifting banana boat at sea near PNG’s border with Micronesia. The unfortunate family was about...
BREAKING NEWS: Chris Lischewski Found Guilty For Price-Fixing
A Californian federal jury has found former CEO of Bumble Bee, Chris Lischewski, guilty of price-fixing US canned tuna with competitors. The verdict comes after four weeks of a grueling trial...
End-Payors Refute StarKist’s Appeal Against Class Certification
US tuna company, StarKist had filed a motion for an immediate appeal of a class certification ruling in an anti-trust multi-district litigation (MDL) against the US Big...