Scientists have discovered that large fish, which sink after death, take the carbon that they contain within them into the deep ocean leaving it there for thousands of years. However,...
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Silky Shark Tagging Project To Lower Echebastar’s Bycatch
Spanish tuna fishing company Echebastar and AZTI, a research institution, are currently collaborating on a Silky Shark Tagging Project to seek ways to reduce bycatch. Biologists tag a...
US MSC Awareness Not Growing Fast Enough
In two years, awareness of the MSC label in the US has increased by only one percent. However, European countries and China have reported much higher growth in the same period of time. This is...
Two More Indonesian Crew Died On Chinese Tuna Longliners
Two more Indonesian fishers have died on board Chinese tuna longliners, one on the notorious ‘Long Xing 629’. This boat came under international scrutiny in May when the Environmental Justice...
How Mushy Tuna Syndrome Affects Skipjack Production
How many of us in the tuna industry know about Mushy Tuna Syndrome (MTS)? Perhaps fishing companies and canneries, but who else? It has been a persistent issue for decades that mainly affects...
Thai Canned Shipments To US Go Through The Roof In Q3
This year is turning out to be a very good one for Thai canned tuna processors. While many other industries have been deeply affected by COVID-19, it has resulted in well above normal exports...
Pacific Tuna Observer Arrives Home After 10 Months At Sea
After nearly 10 months at sea, a fisheries observer from Vanuatu was repatriated home this week via the carrier vessel, ‘SHIN HO CHUN 102’. The country is currently one of the few...
Bluefin Breaks Into Salmon Farm While Chasing Dinner
A bluefin chasing its dinner broke into a salmon farm’s cage in Scotland. The tuna, which might have weighed around 300 kg, tore the net causing a small amount of damage. The bluefin was...
Vanuatu & Nauru Strong Emerging Suppliers To Bangkok
At the Bangkok port, the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and Nauru are emerging as strong tuna raw material suppliers since many purse seiners are now carrying their flag. Yesterday, Atuna reported...
ISSF Introduces New Vessel List On Sustainable Fishing
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has introduced a new vessel list to serve as a transparency tool for the public regarding a seafood company’s commitments to...
EU Fleets Blame Others For Failure Of Yellowfin Rebuilding Plan
Just before the IOTC plenary meeting next week, the EU purse seiner fleets have joined forces to release a statement that shows their progress in contributing to the yellowfin rebuilding plan....
WWF-MSC Conflict Rises Over Atlantic Bluefin Certification
In a public letter to the MSC, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called the sustainable certification of the French SATHOAN bluefin fishery in the Mediterranean as premature. It also declared...
Battle In IO Over Chagos Yellowfin Rich Waters
The maritime borders of the Chagos Archipelago are the center of a fight between Mauritius and Maldives at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Both countries are claiming...
Explorer Magalhães Honored By Portuguese Tuna Brand
Five hundred years ago, Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães arrived at the South American coast after a year of traveling. Tuna processor Ramirez has joined the official quincentenary...
Low Skipjack Deliveries To Bangkok Continued Throughout Q3
The supply of raw material to the Thai ports has, for the first three-quarters of this year, remained at the same low level as in 2019. However, some of the main skipjack suppliers delivered a...
Effect Of Lights In Increasing Tuna Catch On FADs
A recently published study by Chinese scientists concluded that light might affect the vertical distribution of skipjack and yellowfin when aggregating around drifting FADs. According to the...
Eastern Atlantic Bluefin From Endangered To Sustainable?
Despite concerns over the Eastern Atlantic bluefin stock, the French SATHOAN bluefin fishery has achieved MSC certification. Control Union (UK) Limited, the Conformity Assessment Body (CAB),...
Eyes On Kiribati Officials Over Observer Tragedy On ‘WIN FAR 636’
The Taiwanese-flagged purse seiner 'WIN FAR 636', which has been the focal point of a major investigation, has left Kiribati waters and probably has gone fishing again. The main involved...
Controversy Continues Over Seiners Trespassing Mexican MPA
Yesterday, again another three seiners were spotted in the Cortez Sea in Mexico, as reported by Big Fish. The marine area is a protected ecosystem and commercial fishing is prohibited....
Public Consultation Open For Seafood At-Sea Social Standard
In recent years, social sustainability issues such as forced labor and poor working conditions of crew on board vessels in the global seafood supply chain have come under the spotlight. Now,...