Three Chinese vessels and one flagged to Taiwan have been caught for what’s described as “serious breaches of fishing licenses”, as part of a surveillance mission covering the tuna fishery in...
Tuna Fishing News
Basque Albacore Catch: A Stop To Growth This Season?
The current albacore tuna catching season in the Spanish Basque country could see an end to almost continuous growth in volume, as the EU DG Mare utters its belief that landings could be...
Strong Skipjack Surge From EPO Olympic Fishing
With seiners fishing Olympic style in the EPO in the first months of the year, overall tuna catches have climbed notably compared to last year’s tonnages, with skipjack landings the main...
Restricted US Waters To Open For Longline Fleet?
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, also known as Wespac, is working to craft new explanations for “non-commercial fishing” and “cultural fishing”. A change could...
Tri Marine To Increase Solomon Fleet With $7m+ Loan
Tri Marine’s Solomon Islands subsidiary is being lent over USD 7 million to support sustainable tuna production and employment on the Pacific island nation, financing which will help fund the...
The ‘Under The Radar’ EPO Fleet Strongly Boosting Catch
With tuna catches in the Eastern Pacific having shown positive results in the first half of this year, one fleet that’s not often talked about has had a more notable increase than the rest....
Sharp Rise In Bigeye Catch % Also In EPO
A trend also seen in the Western Pacific, there has been a sharp rise in the share that bigeye tuna catch is making up of total landings in the EPO this year; a situation likely driven by...
IO Catch Quotas: Seiners Switching From Free-School To FAD?
Yellowfin catch quotas implemented in the Indian Ocean could lead to a situation of less free-school sets and more FAD fishing in the remaining months of the year, in a bid for seiners to keep...
Strong Financial Recovery For Chinese Pingtan
Major Chinese fishing firm, Pingtan Marine Enterprise has seen a massive boost to its turnover in the first half of this year. In 2016 the company made efforts to get out of a financial slump,...
High Premiums Paid In BKK For Spiking Pole & Line Supply
Healthy Indian Ocean pole and line catches continue to flood Bangkok canners with big volumes of Maldivian caught skipjack, and packers are willing to pay out high prices in return. Carrying...
Chile Gets Involved In Tuna Fishing
Chile has taken its first steps to get involved in tuna fishing, as the country wins approval to become a cooperating non-party state of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),...
Mexican Fishery: Is MSC Certification Justified?
The expected MSC certification of the Mexican skipjack and yellowfin fishery’s free-school and dolphin-associated operations has not gone without criticism, with NGO WWF having uttered its...
Olympic Quotas Don’t Belong In Most Tuna Fisheries
Even though so-called “Olympic” catch quotas have been introduced in several ocean areas as conservation measures for tuna stocks, there is dispute over the effect this system has on...
Trump Administration: Bluefin Not Endangered
The US President Donald Trump administration has rejected a petition from NGOs calling for Pacific bluefin tuna to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The decision states that the...
Dolphin Activists: “Shame On MSC”
The imminent MSC certification of the Mexican skipjack and yellowfin purse seine fishery has been condemned by Earth Island Institute (EII), which claims that vessels use the fishing method of...
US Seiners Only Fleet To Increase Bangkok Deliveries
In the first half of 2017, the US purse seine fleet’s whole round tuna deliveries to Bangkok have taken a notable jump, following a significant slump last year, brought on by reduced access to...
South Korean Fleet Diverts Catches Away From Bangkok
The South Korean fleet has increasingly delivered its raw material tuna catches to other processing centers than Bangkok, during the first and second quarter of this year. Increased unloading...
WATCH: Fisherman Gets Deadly Competition For Yellowfin Prey
A New Zealand spear fisherman got dangerous competition for his yellowfin tuna catch when sharks tried to snub his prize off of Ascension Island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean....
Basque Fleet Optimistic About Albacore Catch
Over 1,500 tons of Atlantic albacore tuna has been landed in ports in the Spanish Basque country so far, as the region’s fleet is seeing a successful run of the season. The results from the...
WWF Tells Buyers: MSC From Mexican Dolphin Sets Not Sustainable
With the Mexican tuna purse seine fleet expecting imminent MSC certification, WWF continues to stress the concerns it has, particularly with the fishery’s dolphin-associated operations. It...