Mozambique and Madagascar are teaming up to combat illegal fishing of tuna in their waters. IUU operations have long been an issue in the Indian Ocean region, and according to Madagascar’s...
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Plant Opens In Tiny Brunei With Japan As Main Target
A USD 2 million tuna processing plant has been built in Brunei, Southeast Asia by a local company that says it will soon start exporting sashimi-grade tuna to Japan. The launch of the factory...
EU Fleets & Satlink Collaborate To Avoid Gear Collisions
European tuna fleets are working with Spanish telecommunications company and buoy developer Satlink in order to minimize conflict and gear collisions between the fishing industry and seismic...
Costly EU-Mauritius Tuna Deal Gets Final Approval
Final approval has been given for the continuation of a fishing agreement between the EU and Mauritius, allowing European seiners to catch tuna in the African nation’s waters for the next four...
Study: Aggressive IUU Policies More Effective Than Catch Reductions
Fighting IUU fishing is a more effective method than reducing overall catches to create a sustainable industry, a new study finds. Putting policies in place to reduce illegal fishing...
New Mozambique Tuna Firm Rises From EMATUM’s Ashes
A new tuna fishing company has been set up in Mozambique, and will take over the longliners of EMATUM – the state-owned fishing firm that contributed great debt to the nation due to illicit...
Ecuador’s Jadran Enters Panama-Flagged Seiners For MSC
Ecuadorian boatowner, Jadran SA, has entered its Panama-flagged purse seiners into MSC assessment, for free-school and dolphin sets made in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. As the fishery is within...
14 Ghanaian Tuna Firms Stop Fishing Fearing Pirate Attacks
As many as 14 Ghanaian firms have ceased their fishing operations in Ghana’s EEZ in fear of being attacked by pirates. The vessel owners have decided to halt all fishing activity until they...
Taiwanese Longliner Apprehended In Indonesian Waters
A Taiwan-flagged tuna longliner has been apprehended on suspicions of holding incorrect documents while travelling through Indonesia’s waters, reports say. The vessel has been made to cease...
Crew Fail To Salvage Longliner After Spending Millions
A Japanese tuna longliner stuck on a rocky reef in Namibia has been written-off by its owners following the failed attempt to salvage the ship. Due to costs for trying to rescue the boat...
Seychelles Plans Smarter Use Of Tuna Seiner Bycatch
The Seychelles government is looking to implement a Bycatch Management Policy, which would more strongly regulate the landing of bycatch species caught by tuna purse seiners. An Indian Ocean...
Japanese Group Wants RFMOs To Get Stricter On IMO Numbers
A Japanese NGO has called for all tuna RFMOs to require vessels, including those with a gross tonnage that is below 100, to have unique vessel identification numbers, which can now be issued...
Increased Free-School Supply A Threat To P&L Demand?
Purse seiners are delivering increased volumes of free-school catch to Bangkok and thus more tuna caught using this method is available to canners and ultimately the market. We want to know...
Most Think Non-Entangling FADs Won’t Reduce Shark Deaths
More than half of industry members believe non-entangling FADs will not reduce shark mortality on a large scale, according to our recent poll. This is despite the concept, first introduced by...
WCPFC Compliance Scheme A ‘Burden’ For Small Island Nations
A Compliance Monitoring Scheme (CMS) under the WCPFC has been argued as placing “disproportionate burden” on small island nations. The scheme, which includes all WCPFC members, ranging from...
South Korean Seiners Switch Up EEZ Operations In WCPO
During the first quarter of 2018, the South Korean fleet continued to show its strong presence in the WCPO as one of the main distant water fishing nation’s operating in these tuna-rich...
Algerian-Flagged “Tuna Longliner” Missing Off Tunisian Coast
A vessel described as a “tuna longliner” has been reported as missing following its failure to return to port. The vessel is said to have issued its last signal just less than 10 days ago and...
Experts To Study Bluefin Return To UK Waters
The THUNNUS UK project has been launched to provide a baseline understanding of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the waters of the British Isles. UK-based University of Exeter, one of the...
Major Chinese Player Adds 7 Seiners To IO Operations
The Chinese tuna fishing company, Pingtan Marine Enterprise, has announced seven of its “light luring” purse seine vessels have been given the go-ahead to fish in international waters of the...
Thailand Too Optimistic Over EU’s IUU Inspection?
The Thai government is presented in several press reports coming out of Bangkok, as being extremely optimistic on its IUU reform, expecting a possible return to green card status after an...