In a nascent deal involving the World Bank and the Prince of Wales, the island nation of Seychelles has raised USD 15 million in the world’s first “blue bond”, raised from international...
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FFA To Operate 3 Jets To Patrol EEZ’s In IUU Fight
The lucrative business of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is an outstanding burden on the economies of small island nations, many of which are primarily reliant on the...
Micronesia Commits To Have 100% Transparency On Longlining
Micronesia’s President Peter Christian is concerned for the many countries that are still effectively “flying blind” when it comes to the management of fisheries. As the global fishing...
Scientists Meet To Discuss Critical State Of Indian Ocean Yellowfin
The red marked Indian Ocean yellowfin stock was the focal point for roundtable discussions at the recent Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC’s) 20th Session of the Working Party on Tropical...
Drop In Maldives Pole And Line Tuna Exports
The Maldives fisheries sector observed a 10 percent drop in exports due to a decline in tuna volume during the first half of 2018. As reported by the Maldives Monetary Authority’s quarterly...
1900 Participants Meet In Bali On Ocean Protection
The 2018 Our Ocean Conference (OOC) kicked off in Bali last Monday calling on the global population to participate in a joint effort to protect the world's oceans. The two-day main event will...
Filling Gaps On Gillnet Tuna Fisheries Of Pakistan
Tuna gillnetting is an antiquated practice in countries of the northern Indian Ocean- Pakistan, Iran, Oman, Yemen, and Somalia. Presently, around 2,500 gillnet vessels operate in the northern...
“Tuna For The Ticos” Campaign To Reduce Illegal Foreign Catches
A nationwide campaign calling for the protection of tuna and other marine resources has taken place in Costa Rica. Through its “Tuna for the Ticos” campaign, the Costa Rican Fisheries...
Kosher StarKist Tuna For 50,000 NYC Jewish Students
StarKist’s American Samoa cannery will begin production of “certified kosher tuna” from its plant next month. The Jewish Education Project in New York is sending kosher supervisors to Pago...
Malta “Lynch Pin” In EUR 20 Million Tuna Racket
According to a local report by the Times of Malta, an “international fishing giant with a foothold in Malta” is at the center of an illegal tuna trading scheme worth EUR 20 million a year. The...
CFTO Advocates Fully FOS Certified Sustainable W/R Transport
One of France’s principal suppliers of tropical tuna, Compagnie Française du Thon Océanique (CFTO), has made known that it is presently transporting its catches of frozen whole round tuna only...
IN BRIEF: More Mexican Tuna To Hit The Middle East Markets
New approved air services between Mexico and the Middle East will enable Mexico to increase its tuna market share in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The agreement, which will serve to expedite...
New Brazilian Leader Could Mean Big Change For Tuna Trade
According to the latest reports on yesterday's presidential election in Brazil, with 99% of the votes being counted- it seems evident that liberal candidate from the PSL party, Jair Bolsonaro,...
Global Fishing Watch Zooms In On Eastern Pacific
In a professed effort to improve on transparency in Eastern Tropical Pacific fisheries, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has entered into a formal collaboration...
Bolton To Become “World’s Most Sustainable Tuna Company”
After being lauded by Greenpeace International yesterday on its FAD-free commitment, Bolton released a 3 page letter with an ambitious statement asserting that the company, with its leading...
Indonesia’s First MSC Pole And Line Fishery To Be Certified
An Indonesian yellowfin and skipjack fishery just off the coast of Sorong is expected to be granted MSC certification within the coming weeks, following a promising...
Chilean Navy Operation Against Asian Fleet Targeting Albacore
The Chilean armada has commissioned a navy patrol ship, the OPV-82 “Comandante Toro”, in its heightened efforts to supervise the fishing of tuna and...
Balfego Wants “Any Temptation” To Trade Illegally Removed
Establishing "effective and exemplary" control measures that eradicate "any temptation" to illegally trade tuna is what the Balfegó group is advocating. The Catalan tuna firm...
10 Ways To Fight Slave Labor And Illegal Fishing
“Out of the Shadows” spotlights several glaring shortfalls on regulation in the global fishing industry, published by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) last Tuesday. In the...
Spanish Police Stops Van With Illegal Tuna
Spain’s Guardia Civil intercepted a non-isothermal vehicle along the Port of Tarifa, which contained 17 specimens of bluefin tuna without legal documentation. From a vantage point along a...