This week prices for whole round skipjack tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean tuna processing hub of Manta, Ecuador were concluded at USD 1,600 M/T, representing a 9 percent...
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Two Filipino Fishing Crew Escape From Onboard Abuse
Two Filipino fishing crew who escaped maltreatment on their vessel have been brought back to their home country, following a rescue by the Vietnamese Navy in the West Philippine...
Indonesia Lacks Tuna Powerhouse
Despite being the largest archipelagic country in the world with over 17,000 islands and vast coastlines, Indonesia is still struggling to develop its tuna fishery sector due to a lack of a...
First Australian Bluefin To Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport
For the very first time, an international air cargo of boxes of Australian bluefin have been flown to Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport. The bluefin cargo was distributed to numerous domestic...
Innovative Method Of Tuna Fishing Faces Funding Issue
Commercial fisherman Robert Nunes is campaigning for a new method of fishing to be used by the Costa Rican tuna industry. The method is called Greenstick and can be used to specifically...
Increased Aussie Aerial Surveillance Over 15 Pacific Island Nations Waters
An aerial cooperation agreement has been signed between delegates from Australia and the Marshall Islands Fisheries. The agreement means that with Australian funding, aerial surveillance...
PNG Industry Starts MSC Assessment On FAD Fisheries
The Papua New Guinea Fishing Industry Association has formally entered into full MSC assessment for the purse seine skipjack and yellowfin tuna fishery caught with anchored and...
‘I’m Surprised They Didn’t Kill Her’ – Industry Source Talks About Fisheries Director
“I’m surprised they didn’t kill Andreina [Fenech Farrugia] after she clamped down on some operators in recent years,” an unnamed source industry told Times of Malta in an...
Spanish Salt-cured “Tuna Ham” Becomes A 2018 Hit
A tuna niche business focused on Mojama Spanish Style Tuna Loins is becoming more popular as the Regulatory Council for the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Isla...
‘Inferno’ Fire Wrecks Over 30 Indonesian Tuna Vessels
A massive fire in the port docks of North Jakarta, Indonesia has resulted in a temporary closure, forcing fishermen to remain on land while the clean-up and investigations...
Palau Joins 2023 IUU Pledge
Palau has recently made a pledge to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) by 2023. By January 1, 2020, the country will implement the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS),...
Aceh Tuna Exporters Halt Exports To Japan
Exporters of tuna in Aceh, Indonesia have stopped delivering tuna to Japan due to an almost three-fold increase in air cargo tariffs in the past month....
Marshall Islands, Thailand Sign Deal To Stop Underreporting On Transshipments
Frozen tuna transshipments from mostly purse seiner vessels and longliners to refrigerated carrier bulk cargo vessels is a daily occurrence in the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port...
First Indonesian Handline Fishery Enters MSC Assessment
North American tuna company Anova Food's Fair Trade Fishery has announced its application for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) full assessment, making it the first handline tuna...
Bumble Bee Settles US Foods’ Price Fixing Claims
Bumble Bee has reached a settlement with the American distributor US Foods to end claims related to the nation-wide conspiracy to keep prices of canned tuna artificially high. US...
New Tuna Farm Linked To Bluefin Catamaran Smuggling
The network of companies implicated in the bluefin smuggling mafia continues to expand as another tuna farm is implicated through leaked reports intercepted by the Civil Guard...
Taiwanese University And IOTC Cooperate On Fox Shark Tracking
A training course for deep-sea fox satellite identification for Taiwanese students was conducted by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) at the Kaohsiung University of Science and...
Sea Delight Joins IPNLF
US firm Sea Delight has recently become a member of the International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) in developing and supporting one-by-one tuna fisheries and supply chains. Sea...
Tuna On Spotlight At 2019 Oscars
Tuna was one of the stars amongst the celebrities in the world of entertainment at the Oscar’s top after-parties and events Sunday evening.Tuna poke, tuna tartare wrapped in cucumber...
Fishermen Protest Against Oil Spillages
The presence of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years is causing serious ecological damage and a 60 percent decline in catches, according to a fishery cooperative...