With one of the only results of last year’s WCPFC meeting being frustration at the lack of progress made, the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is hoping for more action this year,...
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The Most High Risk Job In The Tuna Industry?
There are important workers in the tuna fishing industry that seriously need increased safety, as the number of assaults and intimidations targeted at them grow. For that reason, WWF is urging...
Less Tuna Species Available For Major Tuna Brands?
Globally, over a third of tuna stocks are rated as overfished, and another 13 percent could be heading into the red soon, if stronger management is not implemented. That’s the story coming...
Fishing Days Too Expensive To Compete Say Processors
Philippine firms with tuna processing facilities on PNG soil complain they are unfairly treated by the PNG NFA access fees as part of the VDS. The vessel day rate set for 2016, they say, is...
“FAD-Free Alert Could Drive EU Buyers Away From PNG Product”
Francisco Tiu-Laurel, Frabelle CEO, says he was dumbfounded following a recent statement from the PNG NFA, which he says was clearly a manipulation of facts. He believes that the comments from...
“US Seiner Fleet Can’t Survive Without Govt. Action”
In commenting to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under its Advance Notice of a Proposed Rulemaking related to the treatment of the US tuna purse seine fleet, Ocean Global LLC and...
Skipjack Improves Japanese Catcher’s Profits, But For How Long?
This week, Japanese fishing and processing company Kyokuyo Co. Ltd, has announced that its consolidated operating income for the first six months to September has jumped by 56 percent year on...
Unreliable Supply Chains Leading To Fish Fraud
As a growing global food source, the demand for seafood is increasing across the world, but with a recent survey in Brussels suggesting that as many as one in three fish dishes could be...
Million Dollar Bumble Bee Loan For Supplier
After a USD 7 million loan from Bumble Bee Seafoods, work on a new cold storage facility in Levuka, Fiji, has finally got off the ground and construction has begun on a large scale, with the...
Officials Mockup Prosecution Of IUU Vessels
Getting ready to prosecute any vessels accused of fishing illegally in their EEZs, Pacific fisheries officials have stepped into courtroom roles this week, conducting role plays around IUU...
ICCAT: The Bluefin Results
ICCAT has been praised by WWF for keeping the bluefin quota and recovery plan unchanged as a result of talks during its recent annual meeting, which concluded in St Julian’s, Malta this week....
Riding A Bluefin With A Bottle Of Wine
It’s not every day you see someone riding on top of a huge bluefin tuna, let alone while sipping on wine in the process. That’s what Stephanie Osgood Choate appears to enjoy, as she has...
EU Slams NGO View On Atlantic Bigeye
Despite noting that not all of its ambitions were met, the European Union has said that on a whole it is satisfied with the results from the recently concluded ICCAT meeting, and says that it...
Tuna Brands Want WCPFC To Limit FADs
Going along with the philosophy that the ultimate sustainability responsibility lies with tuna RFMOs, major branded tuna companies united as part of the ISSF, have a long list of...
How Can Malta Keep EU Seiners Out Of Its Coastal Zone?
Holding rather a unique position, the island of Malta in the Mediterranean is a regular coastal nation in every sense of the word; bar one. When it comes to an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),...
Major IO Fleets See Skipjack Slip
The majority of the main Indian Ocean operating tuna fleets witnessed significant drops in their skipjack catch last year, with some seeing nearly 10,000 ton declines from 2013. The slip, for...
How China Is Replacing Skipjack With Euthynnus
Chinese packers are making an almost straight exchange this year, with a clear shift in their US shipment focus, diverging from more traditional canned tuna and towards other tuna-like product...
Stock Market Lacks Appetite For TU Shares
Despite Thai Union (TU) releasing third quarter profit margins which are recorded to have surged to a four year record, it appears that investor confidence in the firm is low, with stock...
ICCAT Passes The Buck On FADs & Bigeye
Despite it being an underlined issue on the agenda, serious concern has been aired over the lack of action taken to reduce the bycatch of bigeye tuna and the proliferation of drifting FADs at...
Alternative Fishing Grounds Keep Phil Catches Up
To keep their catch rates healthy, Philippine seiners are moving further from shore to reel in tuna, and FADs appear to be playing a growing role in their activities. There are eight tuna...