High levels of IUU fishing in Somali waters could trigger the return of piracy, warns a US based organization, after foreign fishing boats were recorded catching more than three times as much...
Tuna Fishing News
PNG Processors: No Demand And No Profit
The PNG government is pushing for new laws on fishing rights and domestic production within the country, with an aim to stop the high volume export leakage of locally caught raw material by...
High $ Rewards Given By Palau To IUU Informers
With a new law that will increase fishing fines up to USD 1 million, and give rewards for informants reporting illegal activity, Palau appears to be gearing up its battle to eradicate IUU...
Report: Child Workers Face Hazards In Thai Seafood Industry
Children working in Thailand’s seafood processing industry are employed in the most hazardous workplace in the country, and are twice as likely to be injured at work than minors working in...
Ecuador’s Skipjack Defying El Niño Expectations
The Ecuadorian seiner fleet continues to report healthy skipjack catches by its national flagged vessels, as this year's cumulative volumes rise 13 percent in just one month, while many...
Blanket Ban On All Transshipments Within EEZ
One of the eight PNA nations has taken the move to ban all transshipments within its EEZ, which reports state was led by an alleged “illegal operation” by a Taiwanese longliner last week. The...
Taskforce To Advise If VDS Should Be Swapped For Quota
While Pacific Island Forum leaders are discussing the options of either sticking with the current Vessel Day Scheme (VDS), or ditching it for a quota-based system, a joint taskforce of FFA,...
Slow Season Increases PEI Tuna Prices
The late spring experienced by Prince Edward Island (PEI) in Canada earlier this year is continuing to impact local tuna fishing, but new reports suggest that reduced catches could be good...
US Pushed Out Of PNA As China Muscles In?
As discussion continues to stir regarding the US fleet’s future access to PNA EEZs, there are reports from Japanese press suggesting that a Pacific-based political bidding war could be...
PNG Puts A Plug In Major Raw Material Leakage
It could soon be written in law in PNG that in exchange for fishing rights within the country’s Archipelagic waters (AW), companies must display actual tuna production onshore. This way the...
One Week Countdown To Fiji Tuna Conference
Today marks exactly one week until the beginning of the 5th Pacific Tuna Forum, where delegates will begin their morning by listening to the keynote address from Executive Director of the PNA,...
No Ease In El Niño This Winter
With El Niño now well established in the Pacific region, NOAA has released a new forecast, predicting that the current weather conditions have a 95 percent chance of sticking around throughout...
Divided Opinions Over Catches During El Niño
Expected catch numbers during the El Niño are dividing opinion amongst local fishermen in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, with some believing the event could improve landings, while others consider...
PNA: A Quota-Based Fisheries System Won’t Work
Without a change to the way its tuna fisheries are managed, the Pacific, according to New Zealand’s Prime Minster, John Key, could put the sustainability of its stocks at significant risk. At...
Is EU Traceability Becoming A Joke?
In 2002, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) divided a map of the world into different zones, allocating a number to each area; the idea being that these FAO numbers would allow...
Against All Odds, Tuna Bond Holders Paid Today
Despite the odds being stacked against them, holders of a USD 850 million bond issued two years ago by Mozambique state-owned tuna fishing frim, Ematum, will be paid today. This has been...
Explosive Euthynnus Imports Cause Concern For Stocks
Just like several sources from the US have confirmed, it’s allowed and completely legal to import tuna-like species at four percent duty and label them as tuna. However, with purchases of...
Green Dye Used In PS Fishing “Unfair”
An environmental activist group is urging a fishing company to stop putting dye in the water during its tuna fishing trips, as it says it is an unfair practice which forms a “curtain”...
Low Demand Hurts Vietnamese Export Value
Decreasing demand from end markets, according to tuna exporters in Vietnam, is impacting the value of the country’s tuna product shipments, which are down nearly seven percent on last year....
Tri Marine And PNA: 2016 Seafood Champions?
Two major entities in the tuna industry have been unveiled as finalists in the 2016 Seafood Champion Awards, which seek to recognize individuals and companies for “outstanding leadership” in...