The PNA is continuing to assert its authority on the role of onboard observers, with CEO Ludwig Kumoru stressing that in “our waters we make the rules”, outlining the importance of ensuring...
Tuna Fishing News
Observers Reporting To Industry: A Safety Risk?
PNA ministers have reiterated that in order to ensure the safety of the government employed observers onboard purse seiners in the region, they should never record or provide information for...
Atuna Readers: More FADs Reason For BKK Bigeye Spike
Despite concerns about its overfished status in the Western and Central Pacific, bigeye landings in Bangkok in the first four months of 2017 have tripled year on year. In the latest Atuna poll...
Free-School Yellowfin Fishing Now Pays Off For French IO Fleet
There appears to be more optimism from the French purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean that vessels may be able to keep fishing until the close of the year, as sources tell Atuna that around...
From Strength To Struggle For EPO Seiners
Reports that some purse seiners in the EPO are turning up to port with their holds half empty, show a stark contrast from the first few months of the year, when catches for the fleets...
EU Invests €15 Million To Boost Sustainability Of African Stocks
The EU will invest EUR 15 million (USD 17 million) for West African countries to develop their fisheries sectors, and to improve the cooperation between nations, with hope that this can help...
US Bigeye Fleet Wants More Influence On Trump Action
As hundreds of thousands of public comments are collected and reviewed by US fisheries officials, on the future of marine monuments in Pacific territory waters, representatives of the US...
Migrant Worker Exodus Paralyzes Thai Fisheries Sector
A mass migration of foreign workers from Thailand, caused by new labor laws, has negatively hit businesses that rely heavily on this workforce. Although the country’s leading tuna canner, Thai...
October Tie-Up Expected For Spanish Seiners
The Spanish purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean is expected to stop fishing and tie-up in October at the latest, following the distribution of minimal individual yellowfin quota for the rest...
Bullish Indian Ocean Yellowfin Price
Evident since April, a bullish rise in the price of whole round yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean processing hub of Seychelles has taken place, with new increases moving the market to heights...
Mixed MSC Fisheries: Beyond FAD & Free-School?
Requests that called for a recent MSC stakeholder meeting to discuss certified tuna fisheries using ‘mixed methods’, focused most heavily on the combination of FAD and free-school sets by...
“Worst” Catches Make Seiners Dock Half Empty In Manta
The worst month for catches in the Eastern Pacific so far this year has been June, according to one industry source, who says that this is the major factor behind the continuing price rise in...
Thai Imports Show Worrying Spike In Bigeye Catch %
The proportion that bigeye catch is making up of total tuna landings (skipjack, yellowfin, bigeye) in Bangkok has seen a sharp rise compared to last year, pointing to a situation of increased...
Nearly Zero Quota Left For Indian Ocean Seiners
A recent announcement has seen a number of Indian Ocean operating purse seiners left with very minimal yellowfin catch quota for the rest of the year, which could potentially cause the tying...
IATTC Urged To Tackle Record FAD Levels
Calls are being made for the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) to get stricter on FAD management and observer coverage for longliners, as the next annual meeting for the RFMO...
Southern Bluefin Found In Unusual Territory
An unusual discovery has been made in the Arabian Sea as Southern bluefin have been spotted off the coast of the Arabic country Oman. Scientists of Oman Marine Science and Farming Centre,...
Albacore Season Starts For Basque Fleet
The fishing of Atlantic albacore for the coastline fleet has begun in Spain’s Basque Country. Although Spain’s fishing of the species was halted last year due to the national fleet surpassing...
PNG Observer Missing From Chinese Seiner
A Papua New Guinea national working as an observer onboard a Chinese flagged vessel has been reported missing. The incident follows a number of similar cases in the region in recent years,...
First Indonesian Pole & Line Fishery To Enter MSC Assessment
A pole and line tuna fishery in Indonesia will now enter into MSC assessment, a first for such a fishery in the country. The nation has been expressing interest in exporting more tuna to...
EU: Guinea-Bissau Tuna Fishing Rights Unrealistically Expensive
EU tuna vessels might leave the waters of the West African nation Guinea-Bissau from November, as new negotiations for a renewed fisheries agreement have failed between the two parties....