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...
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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...
Coper & Subsidiary Atunlo Separate Their Infrastructure
The Vigo-based company, COPER SL, has decided to physically detach from its subsidiary Atunlo, which it founded in 2007 in collaboration with PEVASA and INPESCA. After sharing infrastructure...
Thailand Loses In Rapidly Growing Czech Retail Market
The Czech canned tuna market is expanding given that the volume it took in 2019 was the highest in the past five years. The country imported 15 percent more of this product last year compared...
Greenpeace Involves UN In Observer’s Death Probe
After the alleged murder of a Kiribati observer on board a Taiwanese purse seiner, Greenpeace USA and the Association for Professional Observers (APO) have submitted a formal complaint to the...
IOTC Starts Rescheduling Postponed Meetings
The IOTC informed its members that this year’s Total Allowable Catch (TAC) allocation meeting will be conducted through video conferencing via Zoom on September 15 and 16. Like many other RFMO...
Pacific Fisheries Observers Sent Home After Long Trip
Nine fisheries observers from several Pacific nations have finally reached home after a long journey due to COVID-19 measures preventing ease of flights between countries. They belong to the...
Fair Trade Indonesian Yellowfin Caught By Using Kites
Indonesia is one of the main producers of tuna globally. Its yellowfin handline sector is made up of many small-scale fisheries and this type of fishing is a major source of income for coastal...
New EU Project Aims To Reduce Seiners’ Fuel Consumption
Fuel represents around half of the operational costs for a tuna purse seiner. It not only leaves a hole in the wallet of boat owners but it is also costly for the environment as the global...
Three Navimon’s Longliners Launched From Vietnamese Shipyard
Piriou Vietnam has delivered the last three vessels of the eight tuna longliners that it was contracted to build for New Caledonia-based fishing vessel operator, Navimon. Three of the vessels...
29-Year Old Southern Bluefin Captured In Australia
A 29-year old Southern bluefin has been captured in the waters of Narooma, Australia. It was tagged back in 1994 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)....
Test Of 771 BIOFADs In Indian Ocean Shows Their Efficacy
An AZTI report looked into the design and implementation of less invasive fishing methods using FADs with biodegradable materials. The authors concluded that BIOFADs have an efficient tuna...
Almadrabas Successful Despite COVID-19
After much uncertainty due to the strict COVID-19 measures in Spain, the Almadraba season went on as scheduled. In fact, by the end of the fishing period, these fishermen had harvested the...
Indo Crew Survivor Talks About Deadly Ordeal On Chinese Longliner
The account of the final days of the deceased Indonesian crew members on board Chinese tuna longliners, one of which was carrying out IUU fishing, presents a horrifying insight into the...
Building Of New Calvo Seiner Completed
The construction of the latest Calvo tuna purse seiner has been completed by the Vigo-based company, Construcciones Navales Paulino Freire (Freire Shipyard). The delivery of the boat is...
Tuna Sandwich In Middle Of US Politics, Again
US media has once again pulled the humble but tasty tuna sandwich into the middle of American politics. In a CNN interview, Jack Spielman, a Republican army veteran, said that he “would rather...