Last week, three American teenagers spent seven long hours battling a tuna and successfully landed the 700-pound behemoth (318 kilograms) off the coast of Maine. It was nearly three meters...
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EU Approves COVID-19 Aid For Maltese Fishermen
The EU has authorized financial aid for Maltese self-employed tuna fishermen affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This help is part of the Temporary Framework set up by the European Commission...
Readers: No Observer Coverage Will Tempt Vessels To Break Rules
The results of the latest Atuna poll showed that half of our readers do not agree with the professionals in the tuna industry, who are saying that vessels will adhere to the FAD ban rule in...
Taiwan Sends Vessel To Inspect Own WCPO Fleet
The Taiwanese vessel ‘Hsun Hu No. 9’ returned on Sunday to Kaohsiung Port after over a month of patrolling the high seas in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) to combat IUU fishing....
Thai Union Repurchasing Scheme Bearing Some Fruit
Update of the repurchase of shares by Thai Union. Its Board of Directors announced the re-buy in March setting the limits on a maximum of 200 million shares and not exceeding THB...
EU Pays Cape Verde Less Than Seychelles
The EU-Cape Verde fisheries agreement signed on May 20, 2019, officially entered into force for both parties on July 8. The partnership will allow boats from Spain, France, and Portugal to...
Bureaucracy Keeps 3,500 Tunas Locked In Maltese Farms
Two months ago, the EU gave Malta four months to set its affairs in order and comply with all finishing controls, IUU, and bluefin regulations. However, it looks as if things are moving slower...
Growing Tuna In Space To Become Reality?
A US firm has said that it is possible to grow tuna in space using fish culture cells and it has already started making the effort with serious experiments on the International Space Station....
Pacific Sashimi Biz Suffers From Food Service Closure
The fear of a second COVID-19 wave is keeping several economies from completely reopening, and this is affecting many tuna distributors. In the Pacific, the sashimi business is suffering as...
Dropping Number Of Fisheries Workers In The EU
As the global fisheries and aquaculture sectors have grown over the years, so has the number of people employed in it. According to UN figures, in nearly the 25 years since 1995, it has...
Indian Fishermen Threaten Suicide Over Seiner Net Ban
Fishermen in the coastal communities of the State of Tamil Nadu in South India have staged protests this week demanding that authorities withdraw the ban on the use of purse seine nets. The...
Indonesia Taking Action Against Chinese Abuses
Indonesian authorities have started to take action on human rights violations at sea occurring on board Chinese vessels. This week, a squid trawler captain, Song Chuanyun, was taken into...
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Global Tuna Catch Volume?
News over the last two months about infections among the crew on board seiners around the world, especially in the Indian Ocean (IO) and the EPO, has made the tuna sector very jittery....
IOTC’s Budget Riddled With Outstanding Contributions
The newly released IOTC 2020 mid-term financial report states that the situation with outstanding contributions from member states is not sustainable. Approximately 71 percent of the 2020...
Philippines Cans Annual Tuna Congress, Switches To E-Meetings
The Tuna Congress considered the biggest gathering for industry players in the Philippines has been canceled this year due to COVID-19 concerns. It is held every September in General Santos...
Fiji Tuna Industry In Need Of Govt Assistance
In Fiji, COVID-19 has heavily impacted canned tuna production and this situation is not so different in its fresh fish sector. Sealand Fish Limited and Fiji Fish Marketing Group Limited have...
FIPs Are Concerned Over Costs On Implementing Human Rights Policy
Despite FIPs supporting human rights at sea, they are also concerned about the costs of implementing a social policy that will include this, according to global platform for fishery...
Entire WCPFC FAD Ban Without Observers?
There is a high chance that observers might not resume work during the ongoing WCPFC FAD ban as the PNA is intending to extend their temporary suspension in the WCPO region by another three...
Spanish Fisheries Exec & Family Linked To Drug Trafficking
Earlier this week, a Spanish investigation aiming to dismantle the networks smuggling hashish into the Strait of Gibraltar led to the arrest of fisheries executive, Pedro Maza. Until that...
Good Catches Leading To Early Closure Of Spanish Albacore Fishery
Early this week, the largest bulk of bonito del norte, albacore, of the current fishing season was offloaded in the port of Avilés, Spain. This cargo comprises 40 percent of the quota for this...