A new global report analyzing AIS tracking technology shows that the number of fishing vessels utilizing this technology is increasing each year. It can provide information on fishing activity...
Tuna Fishing News
Europeans At Loggerheads Over Quota Reduction For Seiners
In order to reach the goal of an integrated management system of the four tropical tuna stocks in the Atlantic, OPAGAC has been promoting a fishing effort based management system to...
Foreign Vessels Get 1 Year To Land A Portion Of Their Catch
The Peruvian government has put into effect a measure that gives foreign-flagged fishing vessels a maximum period of one year to deliver at least 30 percent of their catches or their...
EU And African States Propose Lower TAC For Atlantic Bigeye
Atlantic bigeye is big on the agenda at the ICCAT meeting, which is taking place this week in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Member countries are meeting to come to an agreement about...
Lischewski’s Attorney: Father & Son Colluded On Prices
A former senior executive at Bumble Bee and key witness for the US government was grilled by Chris Lischewski’s defense counsel, who accused the testifier of being motivated by...
High Canned Tuna Prices & Less Orders By German Market
German canned tuna imports experienced a fall in the first half of this year, mainly due to a drop in deliveries coming from outside the EU. The country's canned tuna retail...
Spanish Seiners Overcatching Yellowfin Shows IOTC Draft Report
Spanish purse seiners caught more than their allocated share of yellowfin in the Indian Ocean in 2018 - a stock that is already red-rated. Atuna managed to look into a draft...
Ghana Cannot Close All Fishing Seasons At Once
A US agency has called for a mandatory closing of the fishing season for all fleets operating in Ghana’s waters at the same time, regardless of their target species....
Work For India Tuna Harbor Continues As Scheduled
The work for the new tuna fishing harbor in Tiruvottiyur Kuppam in Chennai, India, is progressing as scheduled. Currently, drivers in the Ennore...
WTPO Sees Buying Less VDS Days As Crisis Solution
In their meeting on the crisis of the Bangkok skipjack price, the members present at the World Tuna Purse seine Organization (WTPO) meeting in Manila agreed on...
Pacific IUU Surveillance Sights 646 Vessels
Fifteen Pacific nations recently participated in the annual Operation Kurukuru, a 12-day multinational coordinated regional maritime surveillance exercise targeting IUU fishing in the...
Attorney General Proud Of Win Over Albacora
Earlier this year, the international arbitration between the Spanish tuna fishing company, Albacora, and the Ecuadorian government over tax charges came to an end...
EU Extends Fisheries Protocol With Mauritania
Mauritania has signed a provisional application extending for another year a fisheries protocol between the country and the EU. The previous agreement expires on November 15. With the...
Finance Minister: Maldives Must Market Fisheries Sector
Tuna fishing is one of the Maldives' main sources of income, second only to tourism. However, low pole-and-line demand has affected the country’s productivity. The Minister of Finance, Ibrahim...
Albacora’s Super Seiner ‘Galerna Lau’ Finally Launched
At the end of October, the ‘Galerna Lau’ left the Vigo port and headed for the Atlantic Ocean. Grupo Albacora's -- the investor for the vessel as reported by Spanish media...
No Interest For Bangladeshi Tuna Fishing Licenses
In 2016, the Bangladeshi government started offering licenses to companies to bring in longliners and purse seiners to catch tuna outside the country's EEZ in the Bay of Bengal. Until...
Taiwanese WCPO Seiners More Productive In 2018
The distant water purse seiner fleet of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) caught the most volume of tuna despite a drop in vessel numbers and the decline in catches in the previous years from...
Investor Testifies On Millions Loss On Tuna Fraud Loan
In the next act of the Mozambican fraud scandal trial, a new witness took to the stand. Marco Santamaria, former Portfolio Manager Emerging Markets at Alliance...
GrupoMar’s ‘Manzanillo’ Vessel Hits Record Five-Year Catch
The tuna seiner ‘Manzanillo’ has closed its fishing season with a record catch for the last five years. The boat, owned by GrupoMar, reported 5,709 M/T in catches - the largest in the...
WTPO Meeting To Stop Skipjack Price Crisis
Boat-owning members of the World Tuna Purse Seine Organization (WTPO) will have a meeting next week to discuss the crisis in the market due to the low price of SKJ1.8: BKK. The current price...