The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have purchased a key Integrated Fisheries Information Management System (iFIMS), an essential tool to manage the multi-billion dollar tuna...
Tuna Fishing News
Kiribati Crew Member Murdered On Board US Seiner
A crew member from Kiribati working on board a US-flagged purse seiner was killed last week in the Majuro Lagoon in the Marshall Islands. A co-worker from PNG is...
Baja California Sees High Value From Bluefin In 2019
The fisheries and aquaculture sector in Baja California had a fruitful 2019 and bluefin generated the highest production value last year, amounting to USD 56.6 million....
Almadraba Documentary Follows “The Red Gold” To Japan
The trailer for the new documentary following the journey of bluefin, from its capture in the Spanish almadrabas to its sale in the Japanese market, is finally out. The movie, which...
Spanish Explanations On Indian Ocean Overfishing “Misleading”
The Chairman of the Seychelles Fishing Authority and CEO of environmental non-profit Nature Seychelles, Nirmal Jivan Shah, has been speaking out about the irregularities and...
Notorious Military Contractor Wants To Run 24 Ematum Longliners
Hong Kong-registered Frontier Services Group (FSG) interest in doing business in Mozambique is deteriorating. As of now, the only deal standing is the FSG’s owner's attempt to set up a tuna...
Poor Training & Oversight Caused Sinking Of US Seiner
A year after the purse seiner ‘Jeanette’ caught fire and sank in American Samoa’s waters, an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that the...
EU-Gambia Fisheries Agreement Finally Put Into Effect
With a majority of 478 votes, the new six-year Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Gambia was approved by the Europian Parliament on...
IATTC’s President, Alfonso Miranda – Chair Of AMAtuna2020
Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, who was recently elected President of IATTC and is also President of the Peruvian Chamber of Tuna (CPA), will chair the Americas Tuna...
US Turning Blind Eye On Human Rights Perpetrators In High Seas
A letter signed by 24 organizations asking to hold accountable distant water fishing nations that use forced labor to catch seafood in high seas was sent to Marcia...
Worries Over Chinese Influence On Kiribati’s Tuna Resource
The growth of China’s geopolitical influence in the South Pacific has been worrying some experts, who convened at the Global Taiwan Institute last week. Retired Navy...
EU Finances Vessels To Prevent Young Somalis From Piracy
The FAO recently delivered twelve small tuna fishing boats to Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. The vessels were given as part of a...
Anchored FADs To Help Galapagos Fishermen Catch Tuna
In the Islands of the Galapagos, in Ecuador, an initiative to preserve the population of native species with slow reproductive cycles is redirecting fishermen to catch more tuna and other...
Help For Drifting US Seiner In PNA Waters
Yesterday, Atuna reported that the US-flagged purse seiner ‘Danielle Lynn’ was drifting in the South Pacific and asking for assistance. Today, the news was received that the...
Seaweed Invasion Threatening Spanish Bluefin Catch
In Spain, almadraba fishermen are concerned about the consequences of an invasive algae that threatens next year's bluefin fishing season. Algeciras al Minuto reported that The...
US Seiner Helplessly Adrift In PNA Waters
'Danielle Lynn,' a US purse seiner drifting in the South Pacific since December 12, has asked for assistance from other vessels in the area. The seiner was unable to continue its trip....
GrupoMar To Discuss Mexican Tuna Market At AMAtuna 2020
The Mexican canned tuna industry has been growing steadily in the last five years. Surprisingly, in the North American country, fish and seafood are the main sources of protein, positioned...
No Management Complacency In WCPFC
Graham Philling, Director of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Oceanic Fisheries Programme, said during an RNZ radio interview that there is no room for complacency in the way the...
Spain Refutes Overfishing Yellowfin In Indian Ocean
Another accusation has been leveled against the EU fleet, especially the Spanish, for overfishing red-rated yellowfin in the Indian Ocean – this time by Seychelles. A fisheries...
Could Panama Be Facing Second EU Yellow Card?
Today, EU notified Panama about the risk of being identified as a non-cooperating country in combating Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing on tuna. Normally, this...