Two months ago, the EU gave Malta four months to set its affairs in order and comply with all finishing controls, IUU, and bluefin regulations. However, it looks as if things are moving slower...
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Growing Tuna In Space To Become Reality?
A US firm has said that it is possible to grow tuna in space using fish culture cells and it has already started making the effort with serious experiments on the International Space Station....
Pacific Sashimi Biz Suffers From Food Service Closure
The fear of a second COVID-19 wave is keeping several economies from completely reopening, and this is affecting many tuna distributors. In the Pacific, the sashimi business is suffering as...
Dropping Number Of Fisheries Workers In The EU
As the global fisheries and aquaculture sectors have grown over the years, so has the number of people employed in it. According to UN figures, in nearly the 25 years since 1995, it has...
Indian Fishermen Threaten Suicide Over Seiner Net Ban
Fishermen in the coastal communities of the State of Tamil Nadu in South India have staged protests this week demanding that authorities withdraw the ban on the use of purse seine nets. The...
Indonesia Taking Action Against Chinese Abuses
Indonesian authorities have started to take action on human rights violations at sea occurring on board Chinese vessels. This week, a squid trawler captain, Song Chuanyun, was taken into...
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Global Tuna Catch Volume?
News over the last two months about infections among the crew on board seiners around the world, especially in the Indian Ocean (IO) and the EPO, has made the tuna sector very jittery....
IOTC’s Budget Riddled With Outstanding Contributions
The newly released IOTC 2020 mid-term financial report states that the situation with outstanding contributions from member states is not sustainable. Approximately 71 percent of the 2020...
Philippines Cans Annual Tuna Congress, Switches To E-Meetings
The Tuna Congress considered the biggest gathering for industry players in the Philippines has been canceled this year due to COVID-19 concerns. It is held every September in General Santos...
Fiji Tuna Industry In Need Of Govt Assistance
In Fiji, COVID-19 has heavily impacted canned tuna production and this situation is not so different in its fresh fish sector. Sealand Fish Limited and Fiji Fish Marketing Group Limited have...
FIPs Are Concerned Over Costs On Implementing Human Rights Policy
Despite FIPs supporting human rights at sea, they are also concerned about the costs of implementing a social policy that will include this, according to global platform for fishery...
Entire WCPFC FAD Ban Without Observers?
There is a high chance that observers might not resume work during the ongoing WCPFC FAD ban as the PNA is intending to extend their temporary suspension in the WCPO region by another three...
Spanish Fisheries Exec & Family Linked To Drug Trafficking
Earlier this week, a Spanish investigation aiming to dismantle the networks smuggling hashish into the Strait of Gibraltar led to the arrest of fisheries executive, Pedro Maza. Until that...
Good Catches Leading To Early Closure Of Spanish Albacore Fishery
Early this week, the largest bulk of bonito del norte, albacore, of the current fishing season was offloaded in the port of Avilés, Spain. This cargo comprises 40 percent of the quota for this...
Japanese P+L Skipjack & Albacore Fishery In MSC Assessment
An independent body in charge of MSC assessments, Control Union (UK), has published the Announcement Comment Draft Report on the Kochi and Miyazaki Offshore Pole and Line Albacore and Skipjack...
Italians Create Highest Added Value On Their Tuna
Italian canned tuna has consistently been one of the highest valued in the EU market, always staying well above all other origins including the two leading EU suppliers, Ecuador and Spain. The...
Tagging Program Shows Extensive Tuna Migration Pattern
The ICCAT Atlantic Ocean Tropical Tuna Tagging Programme (AOTTP) has been a great success with the RFMO revealing that it has not only recovered more than 120,000 tropical tuna tags but...
Cook Islands Chinese LL Fishery Proposed For MSC Cert
The conformity assessment body (CAB), Control Union (UK), overseeing the MSC certification of a group of Chinese tuna longline fisheries operating in Cook Islands EEZ has said that the fishery...
Tesco Retails “Free, Not Farmed” Albacore Steak
Consumers will be able to buy "Free, Not Farmed" tuna albacore tuna steaks and smoked sockeye from Tesco UK retail stores. It will be sold under the Leap brand from UK processor New England...
Fisheries Observers Need To Look For New Jobs?
The global pandemic and lockdowns are causing a big challenge to fisheries observers’ employment. These people’s work is offered on a trip by trip contract basis but now that most of them have...