French canning company, Petit Navire, has opened a new 450 square meter research and development lab in Douarnenez, Birttany, France. The new laboratory will employ around 10 new staff, mostly...
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Will WCP Catches Surge Again After The Fad Ban? What Did You Think?
Every year the Western Central Pacific imposes a three month FAD ban, and every year tuna catches surge following the return to fishing on FADs. Although the ban seems to be efficient in...
Vietnam Considering Rise Of Minimum Wage
The minimum wage for workers in Vietnam could be set to gradually increase, as the nation considers a raise of the monthly salary. According to Nguyen Tien Dang, Head of the Salary...
Can Fishermen Predict Stocks Just As Well As Scientists?
Fishermen have been found to be just as good as scientists when it comes to predicting levels of commercial fish stocks. New research conducted in the North Sea has identified that in a...
EU Tuna Fleet Forced To Leave Mauritanian EEZ Today
Following discrepancies over the expiry date of a bilateral fisheries agreement, the EU tuna fishing fleet is being ordered to leave the African waters of Mauritania today. Any EU-flagged tuna...
Kenya Expects To Earn USD 137 Million From Tuna Annually
The Kenyan government has arranged to buy an offshore patrol vessel to monitor IUU fishing in the Indian Ocean; something that could now devise an opportunity for Kenya to make back its losses...
Illegally Caught Bluefin Increasingly Ends Up In EU
Spanish authorities, DG Environment, intercepted 6.7 tons of frozen illegal bluefin destined to be sold at Mercamadrid, but the goods did not have the required documentation. The 77 pieces of...
Isabel Launches Tuna Salad Bowls In US Market
Spanish food company, Garavilla, is launching its Tuna Salad Bowl range all across American retail stores; the first steps for Spain’s second largest canner in the US consumer market with its...
Spawning Ground Conditions Can Predict Bluefin Stock Dynamics
Researchers may have found a way to estimate stocks and reproduction rates for bluefin based on tuna spawning stains and ocean movements in the Mediterranean. For the last decade,...
Australian Longliners Are Dumping Southern Bluefin
Australian press, Fisho, has reported large numbers of Southern bluefin tuna being dumped by longliners in the east coast region of Australia. Fisho reported 10 tons of SBT being unloaded from...
SFP Questions Sustainability Of 70 Pct of Tuna Stocks
Concern has been aired for the long-term sustainability of all of the main global commercial tuna stocks. The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership’s (SFP) recently released report identifies...
TMI: Loss Of USA–Pacific Tuna Treaty Will Hurt Canneries
Tri Marine International (TMI) is concerned, that if its US seiners can no longer fish in the majority of the Western and Central Pacific region, the competitiveness of its cannery production...
Eco-Safe Tuna Promotes ‘MSC Dolphin-Safe’
The Marine Stewardship Council certification has been publically praised for being open and transparent, while holding certified producers fully accountable. The Campaign for Eco-Safe tuna has...
Can PNA Model Work For Pacific Albacore Nations?
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) plans to adopt similar measures as the PNA in regards to purse seiner members of the Southern albacore fishery. The soon to be, Atafu...
“Red Card” Seiners Still Looking For Alternative Flags
It seems that the reflagging of IUU Belize seiners is proving a lengthy process for some companies. In March this year, the EU ruled that if fishing firms owning Belize flagged vessels wanted...
Will EPO Ban Stop Rising Bigeye Catch?
Starting today, around 50 percent of EPO-operating tuna seiners will cease fishing and return to port, as the first stint of the IATTC fishing ban comes into action. Split over two 60-day...
Robot Vessels To Catch IUU Offenders
Palau plans to make strategic use of a new floating robotic device that patrols the ocean in search of ships with the use of as many as 70 different sensor/electronic functions; a possible...
FIS Comes Back On Dolphin-Safe Pledge
Last week, global seafood industry news site, Fish Information Services (FIS), published a press release on the launch of an anti-EII dolphin-safe program pledge. Without mention of another...
Australian Southern Bluefin Hits Record Quality
According to experts, this year’s Australian harvest of farmed southern bluefin tuna is the highest quality seen so far, and the harvest is expected to end by the third week of August. Chief...
Bad Condition Pacific Bigeye Affects Skipjack
The bigeye tuna stock in the WCPO has now been reduced to less than 20 percent of its unfished stock size. According to the SPC’s new assessments of the status of regional tuna stocks, the...