By 2016, the WWF is urging for the requirement of mandatory unique vessel identifiers for tuna fishing boats in the Indian Ocean. This is just one of the issues being pushed by the...
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Wild Fish The Most Volatile Global Commodity
According to a graph presented by Audun Lem, Ph.D Branch Chief of the Trade Information and Marketing division of the FAO, wild fish ranks as the most volatile commodities traded globally. He...
Record Bluefin Catches In Spain: Call For Higher Quotas
Record 2014 Bluefin catches in several fisheries are reported in Spain by MAGRAMA, the Spanish General Secretariat of Fisheries of theMinistry of Agriculture, Food and Environment....
Work Starts On Super Seiner Tuna Port
Work to build a new tuna quay to reduce unloading time of especially large purse seiners and to relieve congestion in the Seychelles Port of Victoria is starting soon following the...
French Have High Hopes As Their Bluefin Season Starts
Following reports of record bluefin catches by the Spanish fleet over the last month, fishermen in the south of France are hoping to cash in on recovering bluefin tuna stocks in the...
FAD Fishing Is Becoming Less Energy Efficient
A scientific study recently published in the Journal of Cleaner Production titled “Fuel performance and carbon footprint of the global purse seine tuna fleet has looked at the presumed high...
Tuna Can Help Predict Hurricanes
Scientists have added tuna and sharks to their weather-forecasting arsenal to help predict hurricanes, cyclones and tropical typhoons. Researchers are fitting tuna with tracking devices that...
Ex-StarKist CEO Fails: Contessa Bankrupt
Frozen seafood producer, Contessa Premium Foods, enteredhe liquidation process on 30 April, to be managed by financial advisory company Development Specialists (DSI). The company was headed by...
Asia Will Start To Challenge Dominance Ecuador
According to economist Dario Chemerinski, within the coming 5 years the dominance of the Ecuadorian canned tuna industry, within the Pacific South American markets, will be reduced due to a...
Tuna Crew: One Of The World’s Most Riskiest Jobs
A recent report is showing that working on board tuna purse seiners can be considered one of most dangerous jobs, even more hazardous than other fishing jobs. The US National Institute for...
“Cheap” Tuna Hits Sanford’s First Half Profit
Low tuna prices are one of the reasons Sanford believes its latest six month profit level has dropped by a significant 17 percent year on year. New Zealand’s largest listed seafood company...
Pescanova Rises From Bankruptcy
Spanish fishing group, Pescanova, has risen from bankruptcy proceedings after a year of difficult financial problems. The company declined to reveal its annual accounts to Spanish regulators,...
Value-Added – The Sustainable Way To Increase Returns On Tuna
Focusing on the production of value-added tuna products is the best way to reap in increased returns without over-exploiting stocks. Chanintr Chalisarapong, the President of the Thai Tuna...
Industry Has “Selective Deafness” On Overcapacity
Addressing the floor at the World Tuna Conference in Bangkok, Glenn Hurry, Executive Director of the WCPFC, presented his thoughts on the tuna industry’s “selective deafness” on overcapacity....
Africa Takes Bigger Share Of EU Market
Africa is strengthening its presence in the EU canned tuna market, upping its exports of the product by a modest, yet significant, four percent from 2012. Last year, African nations shipped a...
MSC Criticizes Greenpeace USA Ranking
The Marine Stewardship Council is the latest party to respond to Greenpeace’s recent report on seafood sustainability in US supermarkets, ranking 26 American retailers based on the...
Indian Tuna Industry Looks At New Government For Support
With showing little or no major development in its tuna fisheries over the last decade, local fishermen keep pointing at the government and asking for more incentives. With a new government...
Tuna Fleet In Middle Of Rising Territorial Tensions
Summer is always the best time for a big catch in the deep-sea fishing areas of Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys) archipelagos. Despite China’s illegal placement of the Haiyang...
Ten Day Hunt By Navies On Pacific IUU Vessels
Last Friday evening the annual 10 day joint hunt by several navies for IUU vessels, in the South Pacific under the code name Operation Tui Moana (OPTM14) came to an end. The hunt covered a...
FADs Alter Skipjack Movements During El Nino
With changes of over 65% of a new El Nino period starting in the coming months, the movement of skipjack tuna might be differently affected as scientists previously thought. Until recently...