Concerns about more tuna vessels entering Pacific waters are rising among Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Leaders. The tuna fishing industry in the region is failing to meet...
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Pacific Nations Want Financial Compensation If Forced To Shut Tuna Fisheries
Pacific tuna fisheries that could be forced to close early because of catch quotas in the region say they want financial compensation. Member countries of the Western and Central Pacific...
XPRIZE Commits To Three New Ocean XPRIZEs By 2020
As global leader in incentivized prize competitions, XPRIZE, has announced a large commitment to launch three new ocean XPRIZEs by 2020 as part of its XPRIZE Ocean initiative. The new...
Bad Skipjack Catch Results Hit Sanford Profit
New Zealand’s largest listed fishing company, Sanford has had its profits hit by bad catch results in the Pacific skipjack tuna fishery. Combined with the high costs of operating its tuna...
WCPFC Considers On-Board Video Monitoring On 3000 Longliners
The use of electronic video monitoring on 3,000 Pacific longline tuna vessels could become an alternative to on-board observers. With a substantial portion of the longline tuna fleet lacking...
ISSF Commits To Resolution On Dongwon IUU By End 2013
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has confirmed that it will have a final resolution to an ongoing investigation into Dongwon IUU fishing allegations by the end of...
7 African Countries Get Together On Battling IUU Fishing
Seven African countries are joining forces to battle IUU fishing off the eastern coast of the continent, particularly surrounding the Horn of Africa. The taskforce for sustainable fisheries...
“What’s The Catch?” Online Gaming For Tuna Captains
New online game, “What’s the Catch?”, allows players to captain their own vessel and experience the ups and downs of commercial fishing. By-catch avoidance, market price fluctuation and...
GE Sells High Power Purse seiner Engines To Dongwon
GE Marine has announced the sale of two 16V250 marine diesel engines to Korean based Dongwon Industries, one of the world’s largest tuna fishing companies. The sale was made at the Kormarine...
Tuna Seiner Auxiliary “Explorer Tres” Rescues 10 Crew From Sinking Vessel
Tuna seiner auxiliary, ‘Explorer Tres’ has rescued ten crew members from the longline vessel ‘Rías Baixas Un’ that began to sink around 700 miles of the coast of Dakar, Senegal. The...
“US Should Not Accept Proposed 45 Pct Cut On Bigeye”
The United States is being urged not to accept a proposed 45 percent cut in the bigeye tuna limit for the Hawaii longline fishery. The Hawaiian based Western Pacific Regional Fishery...
“Albacora And OPAGAC Should Come Clean On IUU Incidents”
Greenpeace is demanding that tuna vessel owner Albacora S.A. and its fishing association OPAGAC come clean on IUU incidents and settlements that they have been involved in. The environmental...
John Kerry Praises Anova’s Tuna Sustainability Project
United States-based Anova Foods has been praised last week for its efforts to promote sustainable fishing practices. US Secretary of State, John Kerry, toured some of the company’s operations...
Today’s “Record Tuna Prices”, Still 50 % Below 1980 Level
“Record European tuna prices” are actually around 50 percent lower than at the beginning of the industrial tuna fishing in 1980. As inflation in Spain has rocketed around 275 percent...
Setting Nets On More Tuna, ISSF’s Solution To FAD By-catch?
ISSF sponsored research has made a connection between school size, by-catch and FADs when fishing for tuna. A study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Scientists...
Spanish Tuna Boat Owners Want Tax Rebate And Aid
Spanish fishing Confederation, Cepesca, is requesting state aid of 29 million euros (USD 39.2 million) for the operation of tuna and other fishing vessels outside the EU and the further...
Chinese Reconfirm Stop On Tuna Purse Seine Building
Chinese authorities have reconfirmed a stop on further construction of tuna purse seine vessels since September this year. The Economic and Trade Section of the People’s Republic of China...
Fishermen Pick Up Dropped MSC By Alaskan Salmon Processors
As 27 Alaskan salmon processing companies drop their commitment to the MSC certification, fishermen and buyers are urging them to continue producing the sustainable accredited salmon....
Indonesia Starts Researching World’s Largest Tuna Catch
A paused tuna research project that studies the biological growth of tuna, its migratory routes and hatchery methods is due to restart at the Central Research Center for Marine Aquaculture in...
Targeting EPO Yellowfin As Solution To Falling Catches
A project to enhance the tuna catches of fishermen in the Caldera region of Chile will target yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO). Caldera fishermen met with the Regional...