Helped along by a record skipjack catch, 2015 EPO total tuna landings have soared to a level never seen before, shooting up a steep 14 percent from the previous year. According to one...
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Crude Oil At 12 Year Low: Will Tuna Prices Sink With It?
Oil prices appear to be showing no sign of slowing their descent, as the current market glut has now pushed Brent crude to below USD 30 dollars a barrel for the first time in 12 years, and...
US Seiners Successfully Switch Operations To EPO
For the first time in many years, and under influence of El Niño conditions, the US, as a flag nation is listed again in IATTC catch data, after netting 22,036 tons of tuna in the Eastern...
The Reasons Behind Indonesia’s Tuna Export Growth To The USA
Indonesia’s tough approach to IUU has contributed to an increase in the country’s tuna exports over the last 12 months; that’s according to a researcher who made the statement on Monday this...
FOS: Banning FADs Only Shifts The Problem
Believing that banning FADs or promoting only FAD-free tuna only shifts the problem, Friend of the Sea (FOS) has just introduced new criteria for its certification of tuna fisheries, which...
Which WCP Seiner Fleets Took The Heaviest Blows?
Some of Thailand’s top delivering fleets have suffered the heaviest impacts of falling demand and a large oversupply in the Bangkok market. Not only have import volumes dropped, but the...
What Price Do WCP Tuna Boatowners Really Get?
Carrier transportation costs are on the rise for WCP boatowners, and in some cases are currently representing as much as a quarter of the market price for a ton of skipjack tuna. While the...
Tie-Up Delays SoPac Expanding MSC Catch
With 10 days of tie-up of the US seiner fleet elapsed, the US fishing firm, SoPac, has said that it is no longer able to uphold its intention to provide the market with sustainable free-school...
Thai Whole Round Imports Sink To New Low
A substantial slump in whole round frozen tuna reaching Thailand’s capital has remained prevalent throughout a large chunk of 2015, with the latest data only confirming that Bangkok is still...
Two Dead On Colombian Tuna Vessel
Two crew members have died this weekend after reportedly inhaling toxic gas on board a tuna vessel off the coast of northern Colombia, while a third person involved is said to be critically...
Indonesia To Blow Up 39 More Foreign Boats
The Indonesian government isn’t giving up on its hardline IUU approach, and plans to blow up and sink 12 foreign vessels this month, with a remaining 27 to follow soon. The boats are reported...
US Gov’t Now Insisting Pacific Islands Change Treaty
The US State Department is stepping up to the plate, after plenty of calls from fishing firms, in an attempt to help American tuna vessels which are currently shut out of the tuna-rich...
Massive EPO Skipjack Catch Smashes Record
Without even knowing December’s numbers yet, the annual 2015 skipjack catch recorded for Eastern Pacific waters has already smashed previous yearly volumes, setting a new regional record. From...
Small And Mighty: Great Skipjack Shots On Instagram
They might be small, typically reaching no more than 80cm and 2.5 kg in size, but they are also mighty, as this one resilient species supplies close to half of the global consumption of tuna....
Tri Marine: US Tuna Treaty “Shortsighted And Obsolete”
Tied up in port, the American fleet has found itself at the center of something of a standoff, which major US tuna supplier Tri Marine believes is a result of the “shortsighted” US tuna...
StarKist: US Fleet Should Get More Access To High Seas
With the US flagged seiner fleet docked, canneries heavily relying on its tuna catch say there are alternative supply sources available, but they are limited, expensive and unsustainable over...
Spanish Seiner Finds Vanished Fishermen
Two fishermen who have been missing since Christmas Eve were spotted by Spanish-flagged tuna seiner, ‘Aurora-B’ just yesterday, 130 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. During its tuna...
Calls For Gov’t Action To Get US Seiner Fleet Fishing Again
With the US tuna fleet remaining tied up in port for the foreseeable future, a US Congressman is now calling on the government to step in and provide assistance to the situation which has seen...
PNA’s Pacifical Partnership: A Game Changer In Sustainable Production?
A new study has documented the way in which the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) has created the conditions for its individual states to use the MSC sustainability certification in...
Huge Marine Reserve Created In Atlantic
The British government is set to create a marine reserve almost the same size as the UK in a territory the country holds in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, designed to help police a tuna fishery...