Crusoé Foods, a Spanish company located on the northern coast of the Brazilian state of Ceará in São Gonçalo do Amarante, wants to maintain the agreements made with the...
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Taiwanese Longliner On Fire In Indian Ocean
A Taiwanese-flagged tuna fishing vessel, Feng Kuo 568, was reported to be on fire on July 3 in the Indian Ocean. Its twenty crew members abandoned the boat around 1,400 nautical...
Chicken Of The Sea Wins PEOPLE’s ‘Best Tuna’
Chicken of the Sea's Infusions: Basil has won the main prize in the tuna category of the PEOPLE Food Awards 2019: The Best Supermarket Products. The item – skipjack in olive oil and sweet...
Largest Albacore Tuna Onion Dish
In the capital of Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, the gastronomic event “The Largest Tuna ‘Encebollado’ In The World” took place in the last week of June. A pot four meters long...
Internship At Pacifical For Trainees From PNA
The internship program is aimed at passing on experience and knowledge to trainees about how tuna is caught, supplied, processed and marketed. Trainees join Pacifical’s Market Development and...
GrupoMar Aims To Catch 25,000 M/T Of Seafood
Mexican company GrupoMar hopes to close 2019 with a catch of 25,000 M/T of fish products. According to the Director of Operation of the group,...
Fisherman Drowns Trying To Catch Tuna
A fisherman in Axim, Ghana drowned after the canoe he was in crashed when trying to catch a big tuna. Four other men were also in the small boat. After it was hooked, the large...
China Moves To High-Latitude Bluefin Fishing
In a festive ceremony, the prospective boat owner Zhong Shui Group Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd. announced the building of two 58 meter longliners for high-latitude fishing. The...
PNG Losing Out Because Of Climate Change
Papua New Guinea’s fishery industry claimed that they are losing out because climate conditions in the Western Pacific are driving fish away from its waters. According to the country’s...
PNG Tuna Exports To The EU Steadily Growing
Last year, Papua New Guinea's (PNG) exports of canned and tuna loins to the EU amounted to K1,6 billion (USD 473 million). PNG Fishing Industry Association’s...
Fiji Equips Cameras On 50 Fishing Vessels
The Island of Fiji, in the Pacific Ocean, has equipped 50 tuna fishing vessels with cameras in order to comply with the Fisheries Ministry’s Electronic Monitoring System (EMS) program. ...
Asdomar Communicates Its Value Via TV Campaigning
The Italian tuna brand Asdomar started a four-week TV campaign on 23 June. The campaign will focus on the brand’s core values, pillars, quality and respect, which are...
FFA And EU Hold Fishery Policy Dialogue
For the first time, the 17 member states of the Foreign Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the EU held a fishery policy dialogue regarding the sustainable management of tuna...
EU And Guinea Bissau Sign Fishing Agreement
A five-year fisheries protocol was signed between the African country of Guinea Bissau and the EU. The consensus comes after the previous agreement was suspended from November 23,...
Palau Allows Japanese Seiners To Fish 20% Of Their EEZ
Starting next year, Japanese longliners and purse seiners will be allowed to fish on 20 percent of Palau’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This is the result of negotiations between...
Balfegó To Rebuild Its Plant After Last Year’s Fire
Spanish bluefin tuna company Balfegó is planning to invest EUR 16 million (USD 17,9 million) to construct a new processing facility after a fire in 2018 destroyed its...
Vietnamese Boat Fined For llegal Fishing In Taiwan
A Vietnamese fishing vessel was fined USD 31,718 (NT 1 million) for fishing illegally in Taiwan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The boat, which was forced out of Taiwanese waters...
The Almadraba Season Ends With 1,891 Tons Of Bluefin Caught
The Spanish region of Cádiz finished its bluefin fishing season after meeting its tuna quota of 1,891 M/T. The allocation for the area was previously...
New Zealand Helping Marshall Islands Revise Tuna Plan
The strategic and tuna management plan of the Marshall Islands is being updated by their Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA). Representatives of Fisheries New Zealand are assisting with...
US Territories WCPO Bigeye Quota To Be Divided
The scientists of the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) from the Pacific will meet between June 18-20 in Honolulu to discuss longliners' bigeye quota for the US...