The IOTC will be holding its Technical Committee on Allocation Criteria (TCAC) meeting one week later than originally announced. It will now take place via Zoom from June 28 to July 1 starting...
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Panama Fines Boat USD 250,000 For 1 Ton Of IUU Catch
Panamanian fisheries officials have fined the owners of the Costa Rican-flagged vessel, ‘Kembly III’, USD 250,000 for fishing around 2,286 pounds (about one ton) of prohibited species in the...
Governor Gives In To Protesting Mexican Handline Fishers
After 10 days of a sit-in protest by Mexican handline tuna fishers, Governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez of Baja, California, gave in to their demands and granted them permits to continue fishing in...
How Many Will Be Laid Off Due To StarKist’s Relocation?
StarKist will be spending USD 3.6 million to move to its new corporate headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia. After 10 years of being located in Pittsburgh, the company announced that it...
Vanuatu Biggest Importer Of SolTuna Cans
Vanuatu is the largest market for canned tuna from the SolTuna plant in Solomon Islands. The Vanuatu National Statistics Office shows that from 2019 to 2020, the country imported 794 M/T of...
Mauritius Wants UK Removed From IOTC
Mauritius and the UK are at each other’s throats again over the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean (IO). The island nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional...
Mexican Handline Fishers Protest Over Preference For Rich Seiner Sector
A group of tuna fishermen in Ensenada, a port city on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja California, is protesting against federal authorities for not issuing them permits for handline...
SWIOTUNA Requests Observer Status In IOTC
On Monday, the South West Indian Ocean Tuna Forum (SWIOTUNA) requested IOTC to grant it observer status so as to be more informed on the RFMO’s decision-making process. It is a regional...
EU Combats Marine Litter From Fishing Gear
On May 31, the European Commission adopted new measures on reporting collected fishing gear and created a guide for its Member States. The EU aims to reduce marine litter from fishing gear and...
Thai Union Invests In New Pet Food Firm To Regain Japanese Market
Today, Thai Union announced the launching of a new pet food company in Japan named Japan Pet Nutrition. They invested JYP 5 million (USD 45,627) in the enterprise via its subsidiary Songkla...
New Japanese Longliner Arrives At Base Port In Canary Islands
A new Japanese-flagged tuna longliner has arrived at the Canary Islands where it will be based while fishing in Cape Verde and Iceland, reported La Provincia. The boat, 'Koryo Maru 88' took a...
Japanese Pole & Line Fishery Recommended For MSC Certification
The assessment for the Kochi and Miyazaki Offshore Pole-and-line Tuna Fishery, which was announced in July 2020, is reaching its end. The Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) overseeing the...
Purse Seiners’ Bluefin Fishing Season Begins In Spain
The bluefin season has been ongoing for several weeks and yesterday the purse seine vessels also started fishing for this tuna. These boats will have until the first of July to catch their...
GrupoMar Orders Second Seiner From Spanish Shipyard
The Spanish shipyard Armón has been selected to build a new purse seiner for the Mexican tuna fishing company GrupoMar. The vessel will be 80 meters long and will be able to carry around 1,200...
Poor Weather Affecting Yellowfin Catches In Gulf Of Mexico
Bad weather coupled with ongoing COVID-19 related restrictions have slowed down yellowfin catches in the southeast of the US. However, despite low production, tuna prices are around the same...
Tuna Shortage Forces StarKist Samoa To Shut Down For A Week
The situation at the StarKist plant in American Samoa does not seem to be getting better. The cannery has been suffering from a labor shortage for the past months to the point that officials...
WWF Calls 100% Observer Coverage For All Tuna Vessels To Protect Sharks & Rays
Environmental non-profit WWF has urged contracting parties of tuna RFMOs to take urgent action to prevent further depletion of endangered shark and ray stocks. Andy Cornish, Head of the NGO’s...
Almadraba Tuna Routes Are Back After Forced Pause
This years' Almadraba fishing season for bluefin has started. It is accompanied by a series of gastronomic festivals organized by cities in the province of Cadiz, Spain, where this traditional...
Spanish Sector Set To Discuss Sustainable Tuna Fishing
Tomorrow, Bermeo Tuna World Capital (BTWC) will be holding a virtual meeting to discuss the current situation of the tuna fishing sector. The association’s goal is “to bring to debate, from an...
PNA Opens New Headquarters In Majuro
This week, the PNA opened its new headquarters in the Marshall Islands, the country which has been the organization's home since it was established in 2010. The four-story facility was a...