With just a few days to go until Europe’s largest seafood trade event kicks off in Brussels, we’ve been scouring the exhibitors that will be there and spying out everything tuna at this year’s...
Tuna Fishing News
IUU Vessel Caught Flying Philippine And Indonesian Flag
Flying the flags of both Indonesia and the Philippines, the KM Tuna Jaya vessel has been intercepted off the Talaud Islands regency. Officers from the Marine Resources and Fisheries...
2 Tuna Stocks Crossed Off NOAA Overfishing List
As the number of domestic fish stocks listed by NOAA as overfished drop to an all-time low, two tuna stocks get wiped off the register. The NOAA report, produced annually since 1997, is said...
Will Distant Slavery Links To TUF Have A Negative Effect On The Tuna Sector?
With extensive coverage from popular global media outlets and the corresponding input from governments and industry players, reports of slavery aboard fishing vessels, also indirectly inked...
Halt By Tuna Fleets: It’s Already Beginning To Happen
With a significant number of vessels tying up in port, under regional consensus or not, Maurice Brownjohn, Commercial Manager of the PNA, believes a fishery closure is beginning to happen....
Philippine Skipjack Catch Climbing Back
Rising to its highest level in three years, recorded landings of skipjack tuna by the Filipino fleet appear to be climbing back to previous volumes. Recent re-flagging of some foreign vessels...
19 Hour Battle With Tuna Watched By Thousands Online
Today and yesterday, thousands of avid watchers around the world witnessed the 19 hour long capture of a record weight tuna in the waters of Tasmania, Australia. Photos and videos of the...
Video Monitoring One Step Closer For Spanish OPAGAC Seiners
Part of the Spanish tuna seiner fleet is set to install a newly developed monitoring system aboard its vessels, using a closed circuit camera to record fishing activities and complement...
Pierre Commere: Actual Resource Sustainability Is Paramount To The Industry
Business and industry players must consider self-limitation to avoid putting at risk their noble resource, tuna, and its reputation. These are the words of Pierre Commere, Delegate General of...
EU Fleet Wants Tax Cuts To Compete With Taiwan
In bid to increase competitiveness against Asian tuna fishing fleets, CEPESCA, representing Spanish vessels, and ANABAC, which represents part of the Spanish tuna seiner fleet, are calling for...
Spanish Government Joins ATQ Debate With Call For Freeze
In the battle to extend or eliminate the annual EU pre-cooked loins zero duty quota, the Spanish central government has now called for the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) to remain unchanged,...
Less Than 40 Percent Of Tuna Fisheries Pass Sustainability Criteria
Of 19 tuna stocks across the globe, just seven have been given a passing sustainability score in a recently updated ISSF report using MSC criteria. At the bottom of the pile, with the lowest...
IUU Nations Can Be Held Liable For Their Fleet
Tuna nations facing depletion of their ocean resources may soon be able to hold foreign fleet nations liable for not taking necessary measures to prevent IUU fishing by vessels flying their...
Petition Launched To Phase Out Seiners Could Hit Koreans
Purse seining in the Cook Islands could face a challenge as an NGO called the Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) launches a petition to eliminate the fishing gear from the island nation’s EEZ. It could...
Ecuador Skipjack Price Bottoming
At its lowest level in five years, the price of whole round frozen skipjack on the Manta market (SKJ1.8:MNT), after recent dramatic decline, appears to have hit the bottom, remaining stable...
EPO Skipjack Soars To 6-Yr High
After a supply heavy market has pushed down the global skipjack price, landings of the species in the EPO continue to rise. Fishermen in the region have reeled in healthy tonnages of skipjack...
Could Unreliable Catch Data Soon Be Turned Around?
Thought up in 2000, plans for a new traceability program have now been bolstered and BESTTuna is on the verge of launching a system that could improve information collection in Indonesian...
Electronic System Tracks Tuna Trade In Atlantic & Med Region
For four years the implementation of a new electronic system to track all catch and trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the ICCAT convention area has been postponed. But progress has now been...
Ecuador’s Catch Off To Flying Start
Taking a much larger share of the total EPO catch, Ecuador’s tuna landings have got off to a flying start this year, shooting up a massive 33 percent in IATTC preliminary stats. In just two...
Rumors Continue To Fly: Garavilla For Sale?
After the company’s CEO squashed rumors last month, reports that Conservas Garavilla could be on the market are still rife. The submitting of bids is said to close today, but majority...