The Moroccan Minister of Fishery, Mohamed Tayeb Rhafès, has ruled out the signing of a new fishing agreement with the European Union for the time being.Morocco’s offer of its fishing waters to Spain, after the oil tanker “Prestige†catastrophe,...
At three a.m. last Sunday morning, the daily 'ahi games are under way in the noisy, frigid warehouse of the United Fishing Agency on 'Ahui Street, the only fish auction house left in the Islands, and one of only two in the country. The...
The Commerce Department ruled today that encircling dolphins with nets a mile wide to catch tuna does not significantly harm them, clearing the way for Mexico and other countries to market their tuna in the United States as dolphin-safe.The decision...
Earth Island Institute today condemned the decision by President Bush's Commerce Secretary, Donald Evans, to weaken the standards for the "Dolphin Safe" label on American tuna cans.
"The Bush Administration's claim that chasing and netting...
The Commerce Department’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) today announced its finding that the tuna purse seine industry practice of encircling dolphins to catch tuna has no significant adverse impact on dolphin populations in the...
Herewith the full text of the 95 pages U.S NOAA report : ‘ Report of the Scientific Research Program Under The Dolphin Conservation Program Act “
This report is the basis for the U.S Commerce department decision on Dec 31st 2002 to change it...
The Spanish group ealsa-Rianxeira, presided by industrialist Jesús Alonso Fernández, will destine 6 million euros to the reconstruction of its first international project (Rianxeira-America), the new canning plant in Guatemala which was burned down...
Contaminated Baltic fish banned from sale to European Union countries are being dumped on the Australian market, it has been claimed.Swedish herring, with dioxin levels above those permitted by the EU, were being sold to tuna farms in Australia,...
Ecuador experienced a reduction of 17% compared to the captures of 2001, and also with the forced fishing ban for the fleet during December, the union of Ecuadorian tuna boats considers that 2002 has been the most negative year for this sector....
The waters off Port Lincoln will be a hive of activity following the arrival of the first Southern Bluefin tuna for the season.Tuna company MG Kailis's tow boat the Greta K arrived earlier this week with a tow cage holding the first tuna of the...
The United States will allow Mexican tuna to be sold in the United States under the "dolphin-safe" label, ending a 12-year trade conflict, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
"This means that the United States, based on results of...
When StarKist Samoa resumes production in January, it will be under new ownership, the company's general manager said.
The two canneries' annual end-of-year shut down began after last weeks shift and will ‘resume on Jan. 6th 2003, officials...
Environmentalists sued the U.S. government in an effort to prevent it from labeling tuna as "dolphin safe" if fishermen encircled the mammals to catch the fish. The Earth Island Institute and other groups filed a lawsuit in federal court late...
The Mexican government welcomed a U.S. decision that will allow Mexican fisheries to export tuna to the U.S. under "dolphin-safe" labels. The decision announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Commerce Department is expected to give Mexican tuna fisheries...
The Brazilian tuna fleet is postponing its activities until tomorrow to negotiate a 75 percent rise in the price of tuna, from BRL 1.60 (USD 0.45) to BRL 3.00 (USD 0.85) per kilo.
The Brazilian Fishery Workers Union (Sintrapesca) recently took this...
There was nothing but great news for Thai Union Frozen Food Products on this year's first day when it was awarded a carrot for its good practices for the whole of last year.
Thai Union Frozen Products was named the winner of Asia Money's...
The December fishing ban for the IATTC controlled tuna fleet ended last week.
At least 60 of the 194 ships that were anchored in the port of Manta for maintenance performances already set for sea on January 1st. Around 150 crewmembers and about 60...
With seaboard of 8,000 km and an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 2 million square km, and with an area of about 30,000 square km under aquaculture, India produces close to six million tons of fish, over 4 per cent of the world fish production....
Seven fishermen from Subic, Philippines have been reported missing since Christmas Eve after they ventured out to the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
Maj. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, Northern Luzon command chief, said Friday that airborne rescue attempts to...
A single tuna sold for 6.38 million yen (Usd 53,000) Sunday at the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market.
The price was up from last year's 2.8 million yen (Usd 23,000), but far lower than the record 20.2 million yen (Usd...
The Philippine fisheries sector is optimistic about the eventual ratification of a multilateral pact toward the sustainable management of the Pacific's declining fishery resources. Through the prodding of Philippine fisheries officials, Japan, a...
Tuna fishermen in the Canary Islands are requesting captains of larger shipping boats to “not frighten the tuna†by demanding them to sail at least two miles away from the tuna vessels fishing between the islands Gomera and Tenerife.
For the past...
The damages originated by the ban are countless, according to data provided by the Mexican Fishery Chamber:-The Mexican tuna fleet was reduced by more than 40%, remaining with only 43 vessels larger than 400 tons capacity. -More than 11 years were...
From being the "Tuna Capital of the Philippines," this city is now gearing to become the country's next agricultural and aquaculture processing centre.
Local government and business leaders are stepping up efforts for the passage of legislation...
The beginning of the tuna season combined with the growing pilchard fleet means many skippers are not looking forward to the hustle and bustle down at the wharf.
The area has become increasingly overcrowded each year as tuna companies vie for space...
Thai Union Frozen Products PCL (H.TUF), the world's second-largest tuna-canning company, said it will report strong earnings in the fourth quarter and expects growth to continue this new year.
Thai Union Frozen President Thiraphong Chansiri...
The tuna industry and Federal Fishing Authorities are still negotiating over exactly what level of scrutiny is appropriate on the fishing grounds.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) last year stated it wanted to observe 10 per cent...
Ecuador is the only Latin country exporting Dolphin-Safe canned tuna into the United States. Therefore, Ecuador does not benefit from the recent decision of the United States to buy tuna from countries fishing in waters where there are dolphins,...
Yellowfin tuna stocks in Maldives waters are being depleted by overfishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), fishermen and exporters claim.
“We are going almost bankrupt; so many boats catch so many fish for such a small region,†one...
Conservation groups challenging the Bush administration's decision to loosen labeling standards for "dolphin-safe" tuna announced an agreement with the administration late Tuesday to leave the stricter standards temporarily in place....
U.S Senator Barbara Boxer from California said Wednesday she would introduce legislation to counter Bush administration rules that she said "gutted" the dolphin-safe definition on cans of tuna.
In an interview, the California Democrat declared that...
Long-line tuna fishers are introducing a new code of practice on Australia's east coast to minimise the impact of fishing on turtles and seabirds.
The industry has developed the guidelines, which will come into effect at the end of January.
A...
Two former government scientists who spent years investigating stress in dolphin populations charged this week that superiors at their federally financed laboratory shut down their research because it clashed with policy goals of the Clinton and...
Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), a global provider of Earth imagery products and services, announced the launch of a new feature related to its world renowned SeaStarSM Fisheries Information Service. Sub-Surface Temperature Information is now...
A team from Stanford and Duke universities spends a large part of each January off Cape Hatteras and Morehead City catching and tagging Bluefins in the Tag-A-Giant program, led by Stanford researcher Barbara Block.
The information garnered from the...
The state-owned China National Constructional and Agricultural Machinery Import and Export Corp. (CAMC) is extending a $25-million loan to the Philippine government to bankroll the rehabilitation and expansion of the General Santos Fish Port Complex...
The United States and Canada have agreed to limit the number of albacore tuna fishing boats from each country that can operate in waters controlled by the other.
The two nations now have unlimited access to each other's waters under a 1981...
The government of the Philippine city Davoa is strengthening the fishing sector through a study that will be conducted this month.
"We need to know the strength of the fishing industry in the city. Through this study, we will be able to develop the...
The Bush administration handed a temporary victory to conservationists by suspending its decision to loosen labeling standards for cans of "dolphin-safe" tuna last week. Conservation groups have sued to halt tuna imported from Mexico that was caught...
The 20-meter (65-ft) High Aim 6, registered in Taiwan and flying an Indonesian flag, was intercepted and boarded by the Australian navy last week about 300 km (185 miles) west of the fishing port of Broome after it was spotted drifting aimlessly. A...
A team of experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is arriving on 1 February to ensure the HACCP system (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is being properly implemented in processing plants, as required for export to the US...
After 32 years of research, scientists in Japan have finally succeeded in artificially cultivating the blue-fin tuna.
This is seen as a major breakthrough since the blue-fin is one of the most difficult species of tuna to breed in captivity. The...
Jerónimo Ramos Sáenz Pardo, president of the National Fishery and Aquaculture Commission (Conapesca), indicated that Mexico expects to reach 50,000 tons of tuna exports to Italy alone during 2003. Sáenz Pardo informed the press that Mexico would...
The year 2002 was a financially profitable year for Senegal. It was marked by events such as the election of Mr. Baidy Agned.
Also during 2002, in an extraordinary general assembly convened at the end of May, the shareholders of tuna cannery Interco...
After the decision of the U.S. to approve dolphin safe labeling on Mexican tuna, Mexican businessmen are analyzing the investment possibilities to take advantage of this opportunity.
Raul Corte, President of the Fishery Chamber of Baja California...
In a statement the President of Puntland State of Somalia denied that the Hart Group has been given any rights on the surveillance and issuing of licenses and fishing rights for the territorial and EEZ waters of the state. The EEZ of Puntland is...
The entrance of Philippines and Thailand tuna in Spain is seriously threatening Galician canneries and could cause an economical crisis for Galicia, according to tuna industrialists in Spain.
The Spanish canning sector has started intensive...
Two crewmember of the Ecuadorian tuna purse seiner Caesar V died last Sunday, as a result of an accident, which took place on board the vessel.
According to the statement of an injured crewmember, the purse seiner was 72 hours on its way back to...
Portuguese fishermen unions are requesting the government to tighten controls and react with firmness against vessels that fish illegally, use banned gear and damage fish stocks.
Merchant Navy Engineers Union leader Narciso Clemente says that...
A mobile telephone belonging to the missing chief engineer of a ship found abandoned off Australia has been used to make more than 80 calls from Indonesia, adding to the mystery over the fate of the crew.
Australian police said they are baffled by...
Mexican press publications stated that as of 10th March 2003 Mexican tuna could re-enter the U.S. market. Despite the demand of the Earth Island Institute (EII) for a 90-day postponement of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce ruling, Mexico tuna...
Scott Burns of the World Wildlife Fund praises in an article on the WWF Website under the title: "Overfishing: A Global Challenge" the efforts of the IAATC to reduce dolphin by-catch.
Mr. Burns writes: “Fortunately, there are plenty of good examples...
Earth Island Institute's International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) today denounced false claims put out by the Mexican tuna industry at a recent press conference. At the Mexican press conference, Alfonso Rosinol, a former President of the...
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) observers aboard U.S. fishing vessels operating in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP) have reported last October 2002 sightings of several large, foreign flag purse seine vessels also fishing in...
According to announcements in the Philippine press today, fate of canned tuna producers from Philippines and Thailand who export to the E.U market will be known later today, as the European Commission (EC) is set to vote on a resolution granting...
Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia, thousands of kilometres (miles) from its last reported position, officials said Tuesday. But in Taiwan, Mr....
The Mexican government is confident that the tuna fleet has sufficient capacity to meet domestic and international demand, including exports to the US, but producers are cautious about the government's optimism.
The lifting of the US embargo on...
A boat owned by Auclander MaxCamis, which was abandoned in a storm off Samoa five years ago, now turned up in cyclone-hit Tikopia, Solomon Islands.
According to McCamish, the boat overturned in a storm early in 1998 and its five-member crew were...
In the Philippines, industrialistas are bullish about the prospects of getting tuna and carrageenan included in this year’s list of product covered by the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Inclusion in the GSP list will cut the existing...
North Atlantic shark populations have declined by more than 50 percent in the past 15 years, with some species approaching the point of no return due to relentless fishing pressure and scant international efforts to protect the toothy ocean...
The Taiwanese government has declared Indonesian waters a "highly dangerous zone" after an attack on a Taiwanese boat by pirates or the boat's Indonesian crew, a local newspaper reported last week.
"Since last year, Indonesian pirates have been...
Deep-sea tuna, once a nutritious yet expensive marine food for Chinese consumers, will become more and more accessible to ordinary Chinese residents, said an official from the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday.
Zhang...
San Francisco's Del Monte Foods Co. plans to rely on new products, advertising and cost-cutting to spruce up the pantry of slow-growing brands, such as StarKist tuna, it recently picked up from H.J. Heinz Co. The $2.3 billion Heinz deal...
According to sources in Manila, the Philippine government is contemplating on filing another case against the European Union should it fail to compensate local tuna canners for the preferential tariffs the 15-nation body granted tuna products of...
The easing of American import regulations protecting dolphins is unlikely to dent Thai tuna exports in the short term, traders have said.
The move to relax dolphin-safe standards has raised concern among Thai exporters that it will become easier for...
Mexican publications indicate that the Mexican Chamber of Fishery will press legal charges against the U.S. companies impelling the dolphin-safe tuna ban, together with the ecological group Earth Island Institute (EII). These companies have been...
HERMASA has finalised 2002 installing 5 more units of its tuna packing machine TUNIPACK® in Thailand, the largest producer of this type of canned food. These units were installed in the following plants: GOLDEN PRIZE (THAI) CO., LTD. (2 machines),...
The Philippines should convert into an opportunity the threat of China's rise to economic power in the Asian region.
According to the Manila-based University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) School of economics dean Bernardo Villegas,...
According to a publication in the Ecuadorian press, Mexico is about to become a strong rival of Ecuador’s tuna interests in the U.S. market. The absence of Mexico from the U.S. market -due to the “dolphin embargoâ€- has created a possibility for...
The Australian East Coast Tuna Boat Owners Association is working to ease tensions between the Bluefin tuna industry and recreational and charter boat operators at South-West Rocks near Kempsey, Australia.Mid-north coast fishermen are concerned the...
Ecuador’s tuna industry is increasingly confronted with rising energy prices. The high electricity prices (around USD 0.14 to USD 0.18 per kilowatt), the recent increase in fuel prices, approved by the Government on January 19th, of marine diesel,...
According to data from the Thai Customs Department, the country’s total cumulative value of canned tuna exports into the US market declined between January and November 2002, by 19%. The value in 2002 was 127 million USD while during the same period...
The Spanish fishing fleet has lost the European leadership, measured in power. Now it is Italy –one of the countries that have not yet complied with the reduction objectives market by the European Union- who is the leading fishing fleet of Europe.In...
On the Philippine government’s efforts to expand tuna exports in the US market through the GSP, industry insiders said the United States Trade Representative Office only wants pouched tuna to be allowed entry in the US market. Chances have grown dim...
In the Philippines Southern Mindanao tuna exporters should take advantage of the situation in Iraq, according to regional director Merly Cruz of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Region XI.
Cruz also said that Davao City should also...
The USA California attorney general's office is suing five grocery-store chains for not including such a sign at their fish counters.
The grocery-store chains -Albertsons, Kroger's, Safeway, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods- failed to post...
A shortage of fish has forced around 40 per cent of fish canneries to stop production. The Indonesian Fishery Community (MPN) informed last week that the supply of fresh fish is only 30 per cent of the installed processing capacity of the country’s...
Malaysia’s Agriculture Minister Datuk Dr Effendi Norwawi said skippers who mastered fishing technology could ensure volume of the tuna catch was increased.
The Fisheries Department plans to use 600 vessels to land 60,000 M/T to 75,000 M/T of mostly...
In a move to assure the food supply of nutritional products like canned tuna, grain and flour the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, will exonerate tariffs for the import of these essential products. The 50 days strike which is truing to force its...
U.S. tuna producers seem to know something that the federal government doesn't: dolphins are popular creatures.
Even if the U.S. Department of Commerce goes ahead with its plan to loosen labeling standards for cans of "dolphin-safe" tuna, the...
Filipino fishermen apparently have taken to heart the threat of the Palau government to cut off diplomatic ties with the Philippines if the intrusion into its rich fishing ground would continue.
In the last three years, no arrest was made of...
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) says that a plan to put independent observers on some tuna boats will help ensure sustainable catch levels in the future.
The authority's general manager of fisheries, Les Roberts, was...
In 2001, only half of the 2 million metric tons of seafood consumed in Spain was caught by the Spanish fishing fleet, largely due to past overfishing.
Compounding Spain's fish shortfall was Morocco's refusal to renew an agreement allowing...
The Philippine seafood exporters are rejecting a proposal to impose more stringent rules for the entry of marine products to the European Union (EU) through a new food code or standard.
A Philippine delegation led by Dr. Alicia Lustre, executive...
