Repairs and improvements to Manta’s tuna port are scheduled to begin in mid-December at the cost of just over USD 7 million. The plans will see strengthening of the Ecuadorian port’s Pier...
Tuna Fishing News
WCPFC Cut Juvenile Bluefin Catch By 15 Percent
The WCPFC made the decision on Friday to reduce the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna in the western Pacific in 2014 by 15 percent or more from the 2002-2004 average. Member States will see their...
9 Indian Tuna Fishermen Go Missing At Sea
Nine tuna fishermen from Kasimedu fishing harbor in India have been reported missing after the crew of other fishing vessels returned and said their boat had not been sighted since Tuesday. It...
WCPFC Bans Silky Shark Fishing In Pacific
The WCPFC has agreed to important conservation methods for threatened shark species as part of last week’s annual Commission meeting in Cairns, Australia. One of the major outcomes of the...
WCPFC Fails To Take Sufficient Measures On Tuna
Very few positive comments on the outcome of last week’s WCPFC meeting. General sentiment is that the WCPFC has been seen to fail to take sufficient conservation and sustainability measures as...
Armon Starts Build Of Mexican Seiner
Armon shipyard in Vigo, Spain, has begun the construction of “Camila”, the first of two tuna fishing vessels commissioned by Mexico. According to Union sources, Armon Group has nine tuna...
Ghana Could See 45 Vessels Blacklisted By EU
As many as 45 tuna vessels could face being blacklisted by the European Union, as Ghana awaits the decision of a looming sanction on its country’s fishing industry. If the sanction is imposed,...
Next WCPFC Conference In Stadium In Samoa
Next year’s WCPFC annual meeting will be held in a sports stadium in Samoa. As well as being host for the global UN Conference on Small Islands Developing States next September, Samoa will...
Should The US Take Same Position On IUU As EU? What Did You Think?
On our most recent atuna.com homepage poll we asked you “Should the US take the same position on IUU as the EU?” As many as 62 percent of our readers answered ‘Yes’. Recent reports have...
Optimism At WCPFC On Progress Towards Measures
As the WCPFC’s 10th annual meeting reached its half-way point, strong momentum on creating tuna management measures in the Pacific Ocean have been witnessed. Pacific delegates, alongside...
American Samoa Calls For Albacore Catch Limit In Cairns
American Samoa has urged the WCPFC to implement strengthened measures to limit the total catch of South Pacific albacore in the Pacific Ocean. The proposal calls for the putting in place of a...
Boatowner Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
INPESCA Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
Ecuadorian Pole And Line Has MSC Ambitions
The Presidents of the Cooperative of Artisanal Fish Production and Rod Fishing of Manta, Augusto Lopez and Christopher Roig, have revealed that the Ecuadorian pole and line tuna fishery is...
Taiwan Biggest Taker Of Overfished Pacific Bigeye
Taiwan has been identified as the nation responsible for fishing the largest volume of the overfished bigeye stock in the Pacific Ocean, with its catch of the species weighing in at nearly...
Mediterranean Platform Created For Artisanal Tuna Fishers
Associations from Morocco and Algeria have signed the manifesto of joining in the first conference of sustainable artisanal fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The meeting was...
Higher Tuna Revenues A Double Edged Sword
Tuna fishing license fees are raking in more revenue in small Pacific countries than was forecast at the beginning of the year, but it’s a double edged sword, as nations are advised that they...
Tuna Companies Sign WWF Pledge On WCPFC
As the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) begins in Cairns, WWF calls for effective and decisive action to ensure efficient measures to end overfishing of tuna are...
WCPFC Making Slow Progress On Bigeye Catch Restrictions
The sweeping changes that the NGO’s are hoping for, to effectively address the overfishing of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean, are making slow progress. Environmental groups have their...
Piriou To Deliver Two New Seiners To Sapmer
The Piriou shipyard in Vietnam will deliver two new tuna purse seiner vessels to major French fishing company, Sapmer, by early 2015. This will take Sapmer’s fleet up to nine vessels, with an...