Kenya has been making serious efforts to improve fishing by its own vessels in its waters and to fight IUU. The country reopened the Liwatoni Fisheries Complex six months...
Tuna Fishing News
Amazing Rescue Of Wounded Mexican Seiner Crew 1300 Miles At Sea
A remarkable rescue effort took place to aid Mexican tuna fishermen who were injured when their vessel's crane collapsed while hauling the net in. Three men on the Mazatun were...
New System To Modernize Kiribati’s Fisheries Management
The Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development’s (MFMRD) has chosen the Spanish engineering company, Satlink, to create a new system to modernize its Fisheries...
AZTI Research On Bluefin Using Acoustic Probes Will Aid Stock Evaluation
Spanish research center, AZTI Tecnalia, carried out a bluefin (BFT) indexing campaign in June to survey the number of this tuna in the Bay of Biscay utilizing acoustic probes to...
Criticized Costa Rica’s Incopesca President To Step Down
Moisés Mug, President of Incopesca in Costa Rica, will step down next week after having served in his role for 13 months. The country’s Minister of...
Manta’s Containers With Tuna Now Shipped Directly To EU Main Ports
From July 15, two container ships from the French shipping company, CMA-CGM will moor in the port of Manta, Ecuador, every Monday. For the local canned...
Tuna Monument In San Diego Honors Over 85 Fishermen
The region of Point Loma in San Diego, California, was once known as the tuna capital of the world. This may no longer be the case but the Portuguese Historical Center...
Maldives’ Tuna Purchases Increased In Q1 2019
In the first quarter of 2019, the purchases by fish processing companies in the Maldives increased to 25,000 M/T, as reported in the Quarterly Economic Review by the Maldives...
Atuna Poll: Will FAD Ban Period Affect Skipjack Price?
At the beginning of July, the Bangkok price for skipjack hit the USD 1000 per M/T barrier. This price is the reference point for the global tuna industry. Due to filled...
Taiwanese Longliner On Fire In Indian Ocean
A Taiwanese-flagged tuna fishing vessel, Feng Kuo 568, was reported to be on fire on July 3 in the Indian Ocean. Its twenty crew members abandoned the boat around 1,400 nautical...
Crisis For US West Coast Albacore, Landings Lowest In 20 Years
Just as in 2018, albacore trollers in the US West Coast hope tuna landings will pick up in time for this year’s season, which will peak in July. Last year, 446...
Heavy Cost-Related Regulations Kills US Seiners’ Profitability
This week, South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced that it will be downsizing its fleet by the end of this year – eight tuna purse seiners will be sold off from its original...
Chinese Allowed To Fish In PhiIippines EEZ A Presidential Misstep
In what could only be seen as a political misstep, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte might have given the Chinese President Xi Jinping the idea that if there is a...
Spanish Atlantic Seiners In Port For Bigeye Quota
Spain has issued a month-long ban during the month of July for seiners fishing for bigeye in the Eastern Atlantic and West African waters. The General Fisheries...
GrupoMar Aims To Catch 25,000 M/T Of Seafood
Mexican company GrupoMar hopes to close 2019 with a catch of 25,000 M/T of fish products. According to the Director of Operation of the group,...
SPTC Downsizes, Sells Off 8 Of Its US-Flagged Seiners
South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) has announced that it will be reducing its tuna purse seiners by more than half the number of its 14 US-flagged vessels. By the end of the year,...
A Stop To Trickery Of Chartering Vessels Evading IO Yellowfin Quota
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has decided to put rules in place that should end the practice of chartering of seiners to utilize them as temporary transfer to...
Flywire Wants To Turn E-Monitoring Into A Profit Boosting Technology
On-board electronic monitoring can be more beneficial for fishermen than they think. The founders of the American company Flywire Cameras, Jacob Isaac-Lowery, and Sarah Alessi,...
IOTC Closes Loopholes On Deployed And Active FADs
Several major loopholes in the IOTC regulations on FADs that were exploited by several fleets have been closed. Following a Seychelles’ proposal to tighten the management of FADs,...
Fisherman Drowns Trying To Catch Tuna
A fisherman in Axim, Ghana drowned after the canoe he was in crashed when trying to catch a big tuna. Four other men were also in the small boat. After it was hooked, the large...