Strengthening transshipment regulations is a critical topic for the WCPFC. The Commission’s annual meeting starts on Thursday. The Co-Chairs of the Transshipment Intersessional Working Group...
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Thai Canners Buy Record Raw Material Tonnage In Q3
Thai producers are on their way to hitting the 700,000-ton mark in frozen whole-round tuna imports. In the first nine months of this year, they had already imported close to this volume. In...
Skipjack Is The EU Fleets’ Most Valuable Catch
Skipjack and yellowfin were not the fish most caught by EU vessels by volume in 2022, but because their worth per ton is higher compared to fish such as herring, their value was high. Skipjack...
Hawaii Crew Training Requirement And EM Priorities At WPRFMC Meeting
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) meeting is approaching and the Council has put forward a summary of action items ahead of it. Hawaii and American Samoa...
Will Fiji Become First Pacific Island Nation To Partake In FiTI?
The Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) has shown its interest towards working with Fiji. Its representatives recently participated in a WWF-organized tuna and seafood transparency...
Orthongel Executive Reveals Ways To Valorise Purse Seine Tuna Catch
Michel Goujon, Director of Orthongel, the group representing the French fishing fleet, recently spoke to MSC about the different ways to add value to sustainable tuna, the impact of climate...
Insight Into Beneficial Owners Can Improve Reefer Transshipment Operations
“Better insight into the beneficial ownership of vessels involved in transshipment and their operational patterns could lead to more effective management,” stated a new research paper on...
Is Azores Pole and Line Fleet In Dire Straits?
Azores pole-and-line fishers in Portugal have been hard hit by bigeye quota, purse seine fishing, and lower prices for their catches. The documentary titled ‘Is this the end of Portugal’s tuna...
Euphoria Over Improved IO Catches Overshadowed By Low Price
Purse seine skipjack catches have improved in the Indian Ocean since the end of October. This is good news for fleets and canneries in the region after months of low volumes. However, the fish...
EU Annual Economic Report Sees Improvement For Tuna Fleet
The EU fleet showed a substantial improvement in economic performance in tuna fishing in 2022 with predicted rising gross profits for 2023 and 2024, but not in all oceans. The European...
Thai Pet Food Producers Experienced Amazing Sales In Q3
Thai pet food producers have been raking in a lot of money this year as their exports continued to rise. Up to the third quarter of 2024, they shipped 68 percent more to major markets...
US Dollar And Euro Approach Parity By A Hair’s Breadth
Since Donald Trump was elected as the new President of the United States on November 6, the dollar began to strengthen against the euro nearing parity. This makes the tuna product imports for...
Will WCPFC Decide On Electronic Monitoring At Upcoming Annual Meeting?
The WCPFC 21st annual meeting is around the corner. There are numerous proposals on the table and this year, improving electronic monitoring (EM) standards on longliners from 2025 is on the...
Madeira Tuna Fishers Demand Removal Of Fishing Ban In MPA Region
Fish producers' organization, Coopescamadeira, is urging the government of Madeira to lift the ban on catching tuna beyond two miles in the Selvagens Islands, a marine protected area (MPA)....
Why Luthi Only Offers Leasing Model For Tuna Machines
Luthi Machinery only offers its tuna filling machines in a lease model to global processors for a reason. It pays off because more than 40 percent of all fillers in the world are Luthi, said...
ISSF Report Shows Meager Improvement In Conservation Measures By Companies
The recently published ‘Annual Conservation Measures and Proactive Vessel Register Compliant Report’ showed that companies have improved 0.15 percent from the June 2024 report. The audit of...
Maldivian Households To Get Tuna Cans For Ramadan
The Maldivian government will give all households a box of tuna cans for Ramadan next year. President Mohamad Muizzu who announced this earlier this week has instructed officials from the...
EU High Demand For Yellowfin Whole Rounds Boosted H1 Imports
EU importers' demand for whole-round frozen tuna grew in the first half of the year. There was already a volume hike in Q1 2024 and this momentum continued into the second quarter of this...
WCPFC Director Reports Progress & Future Priorities
The members of the Commission looking after the world’s largest tuna fishery are set to meet on November 28. Rhea Moss-Christian, Executive Director, said in her annual report that the WCPFC...
EU Inks Deal For Tuna Fishing In Ivory Coast EEZ
The EU and Ivory Coast renewed their fishing partnership agreement in Abidjan yesterday for the 2024-2028 period. This deal would allow 32 EU vessels, including 25 seiners and 7 longliners, to...