The WCPFC made the decision on Friday to reduce the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna in the western Pacific in 2014 by 15 percent or more from the 2002-2004 average. Member States will see their...
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9 Indian Tuna Fishermen Go Missing At Sea
Nine tuna fishermen from Kasimedu fishing harbor in India have been reported missing after the crew of other fishing vessels returned and said their boat had not been sighted since Tuesday. It...
WCPFC Bans Silky Shark Fishing In Pacific
The WCPFC has agreed to important conservation methods for threatened shark species as part of last week’s annual Commission meeting in Cairns, Australia. One of the major outcomes of the...
Sustainable Seafood One Of 10 Hottest Restaurant Trends
Sustainable seafood has ranked in at number nine as “What’s Hot In 2014” as part of a National survey in the United States. The National Restaurant Association (NRA) surveyed nearly 1,300 of...
“Kindai” Bluefin Restaurant Opens In Tokyo
The world’s second largest restaurant specializing in 100 percent farmed bluefin tuna (different from wild caught bluefin which is only fattened in farms) opened earlier this week in Tokyo. At...
WCPFC Fails To Take Sufficient Measures On Tuna
Very few positive comments on the outcome of last week’s WCPFC meeting. General sentiment is that the WCPFC has been seen to fail to take sufficient conservation and sustainability measures as...
Armon Starts Build Of Mexican Seiner
Armon shipyard in Vigo, Spain, has begun the construction of “Camila”, the first of two tuna fishing vessels commissioned by Mexico. According to Union sources, Armon Group has nine tuna...
Ghana Could See 45 Vessels Blacklisted By EU
As many as 45 tuna vessels could face being blacklisted by the European Union, as Ghana awaits the decision of a looming sanction on its country’s fishing industry. If the sanction is imposed,...
Next WCPFC Conference In Stadium In Samoa
Next year’s WCPFC annual meeting will be held in a sports stadium in Samoa. As well as being host for the global UN Conference on Small Islands Developing States next September, Samoa will...
Calvo El Salvador To Receive SA-8000 Social Certificate
Calvo Group has become the first company in El Salvador and the second tuna producing company in the world to achieve the highest social accountability certification, SA8000. The...
Port Lincoln Expects Decreased Bluefin Harvest On Last Season
The harvest of bluefin tuna at Port Lincoln, Australia, is expected to be lower than last season due to a scaling back of ranching companies. Fishing for bluefin will commence this month after...
Should The US Take Same Position On IUU As EU? What Did You Think?
On our most recent atuna.com homepage poll we asked you “Should the US take the same position on IUU as the EU?” As many as 62 percent of our readers answered ‘Yes’. Recent reports have...
Optimism At WCPFC On Progress Towards Measures
As the WCPFC’s 10th annual meeting reached its half-way point, strong momentum on creating tuna management measures in the Pacific Ocean have been witnessed. Pacific delegates, alongside...
American Samoa Calls For Albacore Catch Limit In Cairns
American Samoa has urged the WCPFC to implement strengthened measures to limit the total catch of South Pacific albacore in the Pacific Ocean. The proposal calls for the putting in place of a...
Boatowner Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
Rio Olympics Athletes Only To Eat MSC Fish
Olympic and Paralympic athletes taking part in Rio 2016 will only be eating fish that is certified as sustainably wild caught by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The Organizing Committee...
Lobbying Norway To Reduce Duty On Indonesian Tuna
Indonesia is lobbying Norway to reduce duties on its tuna exports to the European country, Indonesian news agency ANTARA reported. Norway currently imposes a 24-percent duty on its tuna...
INPESCA Receives New Itsas Txori Super Seiner
Astilleros de Murueta, S.A. (Murueta Shipyards) has confirmed the completion and delivery of “Itsas Txori”, a tuna super seiner built for the Spanish fishing company, INPESCA. The...
2012 Had Dramatic Drops In Thai Tuna Reaching Europe
European imports of canned tuna from Thailand took a significant drop last year compared to 2011. Thailand’s canned tuna export volume to the EU as a whole fell 37.8 percent year on year. In...
Ecuadorian Pole And Line Has MSC Ambitions
The Presidents of the Cooperative of Artisanal Fish Production and Rod Fishing of Manta, Augusto Lopez and Christopher Roig, have revealed that the Ecuadorian pole and line tuna fishery is...