Pakistan is not benefiting from the large tuna resources in the Indian Ocean due to their human resource incapacity and lack of understanding on maritime issues. As a result,...
Tuna Fishing News
Major Global Tuna Highlights November 2019
November was a month of upheaval for major tuna players and the industry itself. Bumble Bee filed for insolvency with its fate still being decided on who might be the final buyer of the...
EU Fleet: Uneven Playing Field With Asian Boats
The European fishing association, Europêche, has stated that ICCAT’s decisions from its meeting last week in Palma de Mallorca, do not guarantee a level playing field for...
Fiji Wants To Secure Expensive Fishing License Fee
Fiji’s Fisheries Minister is aiming to get a good economic deal through a tuna fishing license at the upcoming WCPFC meeting in Port Moresby, which will begin this Thursday....
Bangkok Skipjack Price Crisis A Crossroad?
Oversupply in raw material and low demand for skipjack in Bangkok have led the global benchmark to hit its lowest level in 10 years, pushing down skipjack prices all over the world. This...
Saving Tuna Is Saving Ourselves
“I wanted to show the power games behind the screens when it comes to the whole tuna market in terms of sustainability,” said Steven Adolf, author of recently published Tuna Wars. ...
NGO: “Cape Verde Squanders Its Tuna To EU”
The recently published fishing agreement between Cape Verde and the EU does not define any hard limit on catches. Therefore Tommy Melo, President of the Cape Verdean Environmental Biosphere...
EU To Evaluate Ecuador’s Progress Combating IUU
Next April, the EU will carry out its first evaluation of Ecuador's progress in its fight against illegal tuna fishing. A technical commission from Brussels will visit the South American...
Peruvian Tuna Industry Has Ambitious Plans
The President of the Peruvian Tuna Chamber, Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, said during the II International Tuna Congress that the national tuna industry seeks to generate 15,000 new jobs and to...
Limits On WCPFC Tuna Catch Focus Of NGOs
NGOs have requested the WCPFC take into consideration various issues regarding the agenda of the upcoming 16th Regular Session of the Commission. These include more...
The Tuna Epicenter That Few People Know About
A large number of Spanish purse seiners are based in the small Basque city of Bermeo, where only approximately 16,700 people live. A new study on the financial relevance of the tuna sector for...
Albacore Shortage Makes PAFCO Switch To Skipjack
Albacore raw material supply to Fiji’s main tuna processing plant has been meager over the last couple of months. The situation has become so precarious that the plant has started processing...
High Healthy Stock Percentage Dominated By Skipjack
Catches from healthy stocks in terms of abundance accounted for 81 percent of the total catch volume of 2017. Only four percent is marked yellow, which stands for an intermediate level, and 15...
Training To Become A Ghost Gear Remover
A group of 70 people including 16 divers completed training from the Global Ghost Gear Initiative on how to remove ghost gear off the Panamanian coast safely. The two-day workshop...
ICCAT Introduces Lower Quotas & FAD Ban In The Atlantic
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meeting came to a close in Spain yesterday, with several new measures taken – a reduction in quota on...
Study Shows “Effort Creep” Doubled Commercial Fishing Capacity
New technology has helped commercial fishing fleets to double their fishing capacity every 35 years, says a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s...
Tuna Wars: The Book The Industry Needs
The wait is finally over - tomorrow the book that the tuna industry has been anticipating for a long time will be released. It tells the untold story of the power...
Albacora Wants Out Of Super Seiner Shipyard
Spanish seafood company, Albacora, wants to sell its shares and leave Hijos de J. Barreras, the Vigo-based shipyard, the latter which is going through a pre-insolvency phase....
Investigation Reveals Cause Of Fire Onboard US Seiner
Poor training and a lack of oversight are to blame for the sinking of US-flagged purse seiner ‘Jeanette’ after flames devoured the vessel, an investigative report has concluded. The...
PNG Fishing Industry Concerned Over Minister’s Remarks
The PNG Fishing Industry Association Inc. has taken issue with the remarks made by the newly appointed PNG’s Minister for Environment, Conservation, and Climate Change, Wera Mori. The...