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Eating Tuna Can Help Reduce Mood Fluctuations?
Eating more tuna instead of meat may contribute to relieving symptoms of bipolar disorder, states a study by US researchers from several universities and hospitals. The researchers from...
The Diverse Interests That Prevent RFMOs Reaching Consensus
Why is it so difficult for tuna RFMOs to find common ground and come to an agreement when it comes to management measures for highly valuable stocks? The research paper ‘Mapping interests in...
Ghana Navy Thwarts Pirate Attack On Tuna Seiner
The Ghanaian Navy successfully managed to stop a pirate attack on a tuna vessel in the Gulf of Guinea last Sunday. The incident took place on October 10 at 2 am, about 170 km from the Ghanaian...
Should IT Performance Tools Be Used For Tuna Workers Productivity?
This week, the workers of the Atunlo processing plant in O Grove, Spain, protested against the tuna company for using a computer system to monitor their work performance, calling it a perverse...
Oman Is On Track To Increase Tuna Landings
Oman reported an increase of 44.8 percent in fish landings, reaching 840,378 M/T in 2020. Artisanal fishing accounted for 793,419 M/T of which tuna catches amounted to 68,578 tons. At 8.6...
Atunlo Management Says It Is Suspending Performance Tool
The workers at the Atunlo processing facility in O Grove, Spain, have cut short their protests against the company. The employees were planning to take to the streets for several days starting...
Maldives Skipjack Raw Material Export Revenue Increased In Q3
Maldives exported MVR 475 million (USD 30.9 million) worth of tuna products in the third quarter of this year (Q3). This was a 40 percent increase in earnings year on year. Fishery...
More Division In IOTC Over DFADs Proposal Vote
Pressure is growing for a special IOTC session to vote on a drifting FADs (dFADs) management proposal submitted by Kenya during the RFMO’s annual meeting in June. The document recommends a cut...
Conxemar Aiming To Snatch Seafood Global’s Visitors In Brussels
For the first time in more than 20 years, the Spanish Wholesalers Association of Wholesalers, Importers, Transformers, and Exporters of Fishery and Aquaculture Product (Conxemar) will be...
Nearly Half Of FAD Buoys Abandoned At Sea In PNA Waters
What happens to the drifting FADs (dFADs) launched by tuna purse seiners in the WCPO? Well, one latest study says that most buoys are abandoned at sea while there is also a high rate of...
Tuna Fishers Stand Against Desalination Plant In Australia
Tuna aquaculture firms, recreational fishers, and environmentalists are all up in arms over the South Australian (SA) government’s AUD 90 million (USD 66.7 million) plan to build a...
Tuna Tales Video Series Gives Glimpse Into EU P&L Fisheries
A YouTube video series called Tuna Tales – In Balance with Nature featuring artisanal tuna fishermen working in the outermost regions (including those from the EU) of the Atlantic and Indian...
Empty Promises, Mexican Local Fishermen Still Have No Permits
It has been over four months since a group of handline tuna fishermen in Ensenada, a port city on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja California, took to the streets to protest against federal...
High DFAD Density In PNA Waters, Only 30 Km Apart
Certain PNA waters in the WCPO such Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru are filled with more drifting FADs (dFADs) than others, states the latest research into these devices. On average, the distances...
Readers Doubt NGOs’ Pressure Will Have The Desired Effect In RFMOs
The complex discussion fed by the mixed information given by both WWF and MSC around the sustainability of MSC tuna has confused the tuna sector and this is reflected in our readers’...
Most Tuna Nations Still Not Committing To Fishers’ Safety Treaty
The safety of crew members on board tuna fishing vessels has been at the forefront of conversations by NGOs and stakeholders in particular over the last couple of years. Several human rights...
EU To Hold Online Meeting With Vietnam Over Yellow Card
Inspectors from the European Commission (EC) and Vietnam’s General Department of Fisheries will hold an online meeting on October 27 regarding the Asian country’s progress in mitigating IUU...
Nearly 100,000 DFADs Deployed In WCPO Over 5 Years
Close to 100,000 drifting FAD (dFAD) redeployments took place from 2016 to 2020 in the WCPO, according to the latest scientific paper by scientists at the Pacific Community (SPC)...
ATUNLO Workers Protest Against “Perverse” Reward Program
The workers of the ATUNLO processing plant in O Grove, Spain, will begin tomorrow with a protest to raise awareness of alleged mistreatments they claim to be suffering in their workplace. The...