Longline fishermen in Hawaii have been granted permission to fish an extra 1,000 M/T of bigeye tuna despite having already hit their annual catch limit of 3,500 M/T by early August, sparking...
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EU To Invest Half A Billion Euros In Fight Against IUU
By 2020, the EU plans to have invested a considerable EUR 675 million towards combatting IUU fishing worldwide. During his first visit to the Conxemar international fair of frozen seafood in...
Could Spending Cuts Further Impact Ecuador’s Prices?
As Ecuador’s canned tuna shipments to the EU slip substantially, the weight on the country’s fishing and processing industry could be set to get even heavier, as the government may be left...
Maldives Processors Positive On Continuation MSC Status
While tuna processors in the Maldives are fully aware of the issues that a loss of MSC certification could bring for their industry, for now they appear positive that the situation won’t...
First MSC Longliners To Transship In Cook Islands Port
A fleet of longliners certified by the MSC have become among the first longline vessels to carry out their transshipment activities in port within the Cook Islands, rather than on the high...
Will The “Benchmark Tool” Cause Clarity Or Confusion?
This week marks the first full week of implementation for the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative’s (GSSI) “Benchmark Tool” for regulating seafood certification schemes around the world. The...
Frabelle, Silla, Dongwon And TU To Build Tuna Plant
Filipino tuna fishing company Frabelle is set to work with Silla, Dongwon Industries, and its own joint venture with Thai Union, Majestic Seafoods, to build a tuna processing plant in...
New US “Sea Scout” Scheme To Fight IUU Announced
A new global initiative to help identify IUU fishing activity has been announced this week at the “Our Ocean” conference held by the US Government, in which President Obama stated that new...
Indian Ocean Yellowfin Goes In Red As “Overfished”
The IOTC has this week updated the stock assessment of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean, downgrading their status from green to red, and stating that the current population of the large tuna...
How Easy Fishing Without A Flag And Registration Can Be
A source close to atuna.com has revealed details of a case in which a tuna longliner, named on both the ICCAT IUU record and the EU’s IUU vessel list, appears to have simply been renamed and...
Seychelles Longliner Fleet To Set Sail
The first entirely Seychellois-owned fleet of industrial longliners set sail this week on their maiden trips out to sea under the direction of Alderic Benoiton, the owner of Marine Investment...
If Maldives Keeps MSC, Echebastar Back In The Race?
What will be the result for Echebastar if the Maldives pole and line fishery passes its next MSC audit? According to Echebastar’s spokesman, if the Maldives are allowed to retain their MSC...
IPNLF Scientific Meeting In Bangkok
Today marks the last day of the International Pole and Line Foundation’s scientific advisory committee meeting in the Thai capital, where members help advise the IPNLF on the formulation of...
MSC: Maldives And PNA Fisheries Will Be Reviewed In Next Audit
The independent adjudicator presiding over the objection process for the MSC assessment of the Echebastar Indian Ocean tuna fishery has upheld objections, by stakeholders such as WWF, that the...
Not Enough Pole And Line Available For John West
In reaction to Greenpeace’s latest sustainability report, which slammed top UK tuna brand John West for its poor efforts in providing sustainable products, the top UK brand has hit back at the...
Tuna Nations Want To Ensure Decent Working Conditions On Vessels
With reports of slavery and poor working conditions in the Thai fishing industry becoming increasingly documented, evidence from a small-scale study in the Pacific has suggested that similar...
Yet Another Drop For Bangkok SKJ Levels
The Bangkok skipjack price has taken another slide in recent days with most of the decline appearing to be caused by major buyers holding back in anticipation of prices lowering even further...
Echebastar Demands Review Of Existing MSC Tuna Certifications
Now that adjudicator Mr. Eldon Greenberg has ruled that the final assessment of the Echebastar purse seine Indian Ocean tuna fishery does not meet the MSC criteria, the fishery is now...
How To Calculate Sustainability Rating Of US Sold Seafood?
A new online tool which allows businesses to calculate the sustainability of their seafood has been created by The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Seattle Fish Co. and Fishchoice.com, and has been...
Lack Of Albacore Halts Expansion Of Major Bumble Bee Supplier
The Pacific Fishing Company (PAFCO) has stated that the main reason behind its lack of growth and expansion is due to a shortage of raw materials available to access for processing. The...