The Food and Drug Administration just issued a new warning to pregnant women about mercury in seafood (search). You can “protect your baby†from developmental harm by following three rules, claims the FDA.But there’s no evidence that the rules will...
The fisheries sector has contributed 2.4 percent to Sri Lanka's Gross Domestic Product in 2002, said Enterprise Development, Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion and Constitutional Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris. Speaking at a workshop...
An offshore fishing fleet equipped with satellite technology is expected to increase Thai operators' competitiveness and reduce reliance on tuna imports, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
A preliminary proposal calls for 10 vessels to be...
Asian fish processing stocks surged on speculation consumers will turn to seafood after a cow in the US contracted mad cow disease and amid outbreaks of bird flu and swine fever in South Korea.
Dongwon Industries and Japan's Kyokuyo gained....
The Association of Indian Fishery Industry (AIFI), a national body of country’s deep sea fishing industry, is strongly opposing the government’s move to allow the Thailand fishing vessels into the Indian exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for fishing....
Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company from next year will hit the one million mark in canned tuna for the first time.
So far, MIFCO has produced around 600,000 canned tuna any given year. The 40 percent production expansion will mean production of...
The first tuna for the season arrived off Port Lincoln, Australia last weekend.The hard-working crew at MG Kailis and their technicians have already sampled, counted and transferred the fish to their new home, a 40-metre pontoon on the other side of...
Port Lincoln largest private employer the Port Lincoln Tuna Processors cannery is almost back up to full speed with the management hoping to hire more people next year.
Uncertainty with supply contracts earlier this year and ongoing competition...
In 1997, Senegal’s fishing canoes and foreign trawlers pulled 453,000 tons of fish from territorial waters, government figures show. By the end of 2001, the catch was down to 396,000 tons. Tuna stocks, deemed a benchmark of the sea's health,...
The bluefin tuna season reopens Friday for two days after abruptly halting late last year because fishing quotas had been met.
"We got two days, whatever we catch," said Pete Manuel, president of the Winter Bluefin Tuna Association.
The National...
A missing Japanese tuna fisherman and his son were discovered alive last Friday on remote, inhabited, Minamitorishima island, one of the Ogasawara islands in Tokyo, the Japan Coast Guard said.
An airplane from the JCG's found Mitsuo Isozaki,...
Commercial fishing boats have already begun unloading big catches of albacore tuna at New Plymouth, Australia, where they are being processed for export to clients in Spain, Thailand and American Samoa.
The early catches began three weeks ago off...
The production of Venezuela’s fishing and aquiculture sector reached 550,000 tons this year, a 10 percent more than in 2002, according to official data.
The president of the Venezuelan National Institute of Fishery and Aquiculture (Inapesca), Daniel...
The Jealsa Rianxeira-America plant, located in Guatemala caught fire in September 2002 and was completely destroyed the day prior to its opening. Jealsa had destined 8,5 million Euros to its restoration (about 33% more, or two million euros than the...
Right now, Alaska salmon is perfectly poised to grab some huge market share from America's favorite fish, canned tuna. For years, it's been under the radar, but now the tuna industry is under siege over the high levels of mercury in its...
The Fiji Tuna Boats Association has instructed lawyers to file an injunction against the issuance of Tuna Licenses for applications not inline with cabinet requirements.
The association has also written to Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase calling for...
At the traditional auction of the first tuna of the year in the fish market of Tsukiji, Japan, a Bluefin tuna weighing 151 kilos reached the selling price of JPY 3.9 million (USD 36,000), therefore almost JPY 26,000 per kilo (USD 240/kg).
This...
Gran Canaria seeks agreements with Chinese fishing fleet after the recent visit of the People’s Republic of China Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, to this island’s capital, Las Palmas.
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao highlighted the need to develop...
With the start of year 2004, San Salvador concluded the IATTC yellowfin tuna-fishing ban in the Pacific Ocean of the Salvadoran Eastern zone, informed an official source.
The ban was enforced on December 1st by disposition of the Center of Fishery...
New round hooks developed in three years of research appear to reduce unintentional snaring of endangered sea turtles by 65 to 90 per cent, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States announced. “The results of...
The Taiwanese Fishery Administration said earlier this week that it will offer all necessary assistance to the families of the two Taiwan crew members who died in an explosion aboard a Belize-registered tuna-fishing boat off Mexico last month....
The largest fishing vessel built in Port Lincoln is now sailing the seas ready to go fishing.
The Apollo S is scheduled to leave next week to catch southern Bluefin tuna in the Great Australian Bight, but has already undergone extensive sea trials...
Acting Fisheries Minister Peter O’Neill has been removed from the ministry following his unauthorised approval of 17 fishing licenses to Asian companies.
Government insiders told the Post-Courier last week Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare,...
Mr. Peter O’Neill was never stripped of duties as PNG Fisheries Minister last week and that’s official! Reacting angrily to a story in the Post-Courier newspaper Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s press secretary said the newspaper has “stirred†up...
Farmed Atlantic salmon from Scotland contains the highest levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the world, a new USA survey has found.It was so contaminated that, according to American guidelines, it should be eaten only once every four months....
The tuna farming industry at Port Lincoln is facing its toughest market since the industry began operating in 1991.
In a bid to overcome tough market conditions, the industry has begun catching fish in the wild far earlier than ever before.
It...
A memorandum of fisheries co-operation has been signed between China and the Federated States of Micronesia to recognize the importance of tuna resource in the Pacific.
Both governments also agreed to further explore the possibilities for fisheries...
Ghanaian narcotics officials said on Thursday they had busted an international drugs cartel in the port city of Tema, after seizing 674 kilograms of cocaine that was in transit to Europe.
The principal suspect is a former employee of the...
Pacific Andes Holdings has partnered China International Fisheries Hong Kong Limited (CIFHK) - an overseas wholly owned subsidiary of China's state-owned national fishing corporation - in a joint venture to further tap the growing demand in the...
Fisheries minister Konisi Yabaki has refuted claims that he received bribes from two Asian fishing companies.
It has been alleged that Yabaki, his former permanent Secretary Vuetisau Buatoka, the Deputy Director of Fisheries Maciu Lagibalavu and his...
The Fiji government's decision to restrict long-line fishing in traditional fishing grounds to indigenous Fijians hasn't gone down well with the local industry's primary stakeholder. Fiji Fish Chief Executive Grahame Southwick says he...
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to add tuna, whale and a certain type of pork to its DNA examination list in a bid to crack down on false labeling, it has been learned. Through the testing, ministry officials...
Two empty cargo containers weighing four tons each were blown over like cardboard boxes on the Fagatogo wharf, in American Samoa, by the ferocious winds of Tropical Cyclone Heta last week.
In an exclusive interview with Harbor Master Captain Silila...
A group of Philippine businessmen in General Santos and neighboring areas has called on the national government to draft policies that would ensure the protection of local exporters from “unscrupulous importers.â€
Ismael Salih Jr., president of the...
Despite a government decision restricting non-native long line tuna boats from fishing in the waters of the Fiji archipelago, Fiji Fish Limited is continuing to fish inside those limits. The company’s CEO. Grahame Southwick, says he is unhappy the...
Yesterday, atuna.com reported on the seizure in Ghana of 674 kilogram of cocaine, which was picked up by some tuna boats. In this news report there was wrongly given impression that boats of a subsidiary of Heinz, TTV Limited, landed the drugs in...
During an extraordinary assembly of the National Association of Canned Fish Producers (Anfaco) held last month, the Spanish tuna sector decided to advise the EU Commission to maintain the import tariffs on Asian pre-cooked tuna loins, which is...
Look out at the boundless ocean, and envision the coast of the U.S. Sate of Iowa -homesteaded by sprawling fish farm colonies, row upon row of undersea cages roiling with swimming livestock.
It's a dream of seafood visionaries, and the Bush...
Health and fishing industry officials in Europe and the United States denounced as “misleading†a study which warned that farmed salmon is so full of carcinogens that consumers should eat much less of it.
Reaction to the US-Canadian study reported...
The Philippines Agricultural Secretary, Luis Lorenzo, said fishermen must learn international rules governing territorial waters.
Secretary Lorenzo issued this statement to small fishermen who were apprehended by Indonesian authorities due to...
The Mexican tuna fleet breaks the tuna catching record in 2003, reports the Mexican National Chamber of Fishing Industry. The 2002 catch was 164,000 M/T and is expected to reach 170,000 M/T in 2003. Most of Mexico’s catch consists out of yellowfin...
The EU Parliament called for a special plan to protect the EU's tuna industry, including both the fleet and the canning sector. MEPs endorsed an own-initiative report by Daniel Varela Suánzes (EPP-ED, E), which warns that EU policy is harming...
Australian tuna farming companies are experimenting with different pontoon set-ups including moveable platforms and double-ringed pontoons with the intent of making the industry safer.
Tuna industry spokesman Brian Jeffriess said despite a...
Chinese prostitutes entering the Marshal Islands are reportedly using Fiji and Kiribati as transit points. Marshal government officials say the prostitutes avoid going through Guam because they need American visas to do so. Taiwan's Ambassador...
The alleged tuna fishery bribery scam on the Fiji Islands could have well extended to other ministries of government. At present, the Fisheries Minister and his three senior officials are under the spotlight after being implicated for allegedly...
A fisheries agreement, giving access to fishing vessels of the European Union to Mozambican waters, took effect as from January 1st.
According to a press release from the Maputo delegation of the European Commission, the agreement lasts for three...
Fish-oil supplements taken during pregnancy might help prevent allergies in babies at high risk for them, preliminary research suggests. A study in Australia found that babies whose mothers took fish oil had weaker immune reactions to common allergy...
Source: Daily Naples News, Florida, USA – By Janine A. ZeitlinAs the federal government mulls slapping a mercury advisory on tuna, in the USA Southwest Florida seafood retailers say some customers are concerned that the food they thought was healthy...
“Duke Marine Lab would like to establish a permanent large ocean fish tagging programâ€, said lab director Mike Orbach. “It will take money, but it is a goal,†he said.
Duke Marine Lab is the East Coast base for Tag a Giant, a tuna research program...
The Duty Free Zone of Baru in Panama last week exported the first 10 tons of farmed bluefin tuna towards the market of Japan. The tuna farm Planta Atunera de Baru is located in this area. The tuna farm has two large cages containing about 50 tons...
By Stephen Khan - The Observer, London
The global salmon industry is currently suffering from a worldwide publicity wave on the quality of farmed salmon. This attention in the press for salmon can have indirect effect on the way consumers view and...
The Bluefin tuna catch scarce in the Spanish Strait and prices are low.
The Spanish Bluefin campaign is not developing as anticipated from its start, in the month of August. “The campaign began well, however the Strait waters are small for so many...
Huge trawler nets are killing an estimated 10,000 dolphins and porpoises in the north-eastern Atlantic every year, according to a report for Greenpeace, published yesterday.
The report, 'The Net Effect', by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation...
The European Union’s food safety policy would add to Thai exporters’ costs by requiring them to bring their products up to standard, but they would benefit in the long run, David Byrne, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, said...
Exports in Mindanao increased by nearly 23 percent in 2003, according to the office of the Deputy Presidential Assistant for Mindanao.
Deputy Presidential Assistant for Mindanao Affairs Virgilio Leyretana said that last year’s exports reached $700...
Conservationists are to track fishing fleets they claim are pushing dolphins and porpoises to extinction, in an attempt to force governments to stop the killing. As a last resort, the activists will take direct action against vessels.
Greenpeace is...
Much of the bluefin tuna quota taken from U.S. State North Carolina fishermen late last year probably won't be given back.
Quota left over from the 2003 season would have to be considered for other states as well as for North Carolina, said...
The European Union has lifted a ban on Kenya's fish export, Fisheries and Livestock Minister, Joseph Munyao, said earlier this week.
Munyao said the ban was lifted after EU inspectors indicated that Kenya had met all the conditions imposed on...
South Australia's southern bluefin tuna fishers are reporting one of the best starts to the season since the 1960s, saying the risk of an early season has paid off.
An early start in December was prompted by a new marketing approach to better...
Development planners here are pushing for a more responsive and integrated sea transport system that will ensure the export competitiveness of Mindanao products and address present trade imbalances within the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines...
The Australian Minister for Regional Development Rory McEwen was impressed by the developments at Port Lincoln Tuna Processors.
As a former resident of Port Lincoln, Mr. McEwen said he recognised the importance of the diversified cannery that now...
EWG and the Center for Environmental Health are moving to sue for a State of California Proposition 65 warning label on farmed salmon, which EWG's and others' studies show concentrate cancer-causing PCBs at potentially dangerous levels.
“A...
A popular area scientist has died while doing research in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina. Rich Novak, 56, Charlotte County’s Florida Sea Grant marine extension agent, collapsed Wednesday aboard a research vessel out of Morehead City, N.C....
Basque fishermen will try to raise the price for Bonito del Norte in the domestic Spanish fresh market this year.
The Basque coastal fishing sector, which consists of about 230 vessels, considers it a major priority to improve profitability for...
The tuna for this year's John West tuna toss are rigged up and ready to go. Employees at Australia’s Port Lincoln Tuna Processors have prepared the dozen yellowfin tuna with the special throwing rope being threaded through just behind the...
Workers who spend two months with individual boats are the best way to track fisheries’ health, ocean advocates and fishermen say. U.S. Congress on Friday doubled the amount spent to put observers on fishing boats to monitor the catch, a move hailed...
The U.S. Tuna Foundation this week will roll out an advertising campaign that seeks to reassure consumers who may have concerns about fish that they can eat tuna as part of a healthy diet.
Commercials featuring the new tag line, “Tuna. Smart...
Fishery sector contributed USD 96.1 million to the Denpasar’s non-oil revenue in the fiscal year of 2003, an increase of five percent compared with that in 2002, which only stood at USD 92 million.
The fresh-frozen tuna posed the biggest revenue,...
The Ecuadorian export of tuna, seafood and other fish (including fishmeal) decreased by USD 11,8 million (31,05%) from October (USD 38 million) to end November (USD 26.2 million), reported the country’s Central Bank last week.
According to Ecuador’s...
The Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed that Spain does not have to compensate France for the damages caused by Spanish tuna fishing boats to vessels carrying French flag during the so called Bonito del Norte war (Albacore tuna war), which took...
Vessel owners operating out of the port of Vigo, Galicia, are demanding Madrid and local authorities to formally request a unified European Union fishing fleet in order to obtain common fishing quotas pegged to traditional activities, and not...
The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food (MAPA) reports the approval of a new quality labeling aimed to clearly identify its national fishery, aquaculture, and shellfish produce throughout all marketing phases.
According to MAPA, the...
The tuna industry is reminding all fishers to keep a look out on the farms after a blatant example of theft of tuna last week that appears to be a well-planned crime by thieves wanting to sell the valuable fish.
Industry research officer David Ellis...
On a visit to Vigo in Galicia-Spain yesterday, Franz Fischler, Commissioner responsible for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, welcomed the application of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on the long-term approach to fish stock...
A Netherlands based company, SaveWave, has just launched a new device that is aimed at keeping dolphins clear of fishing nets. Representatives from the company have stated that this new technology will save the industry time as well as money, and...
At least three fishermen were killed, while 67 others were reported missing when a giant wave as tall as a two-story building sank over 100 fishing boats in the South China Sea off Bangar, La Union Saturday night, the Philippine Navy reported...
The EU Cabinet formally approved to extend –for a year- the tuna fishing agreement with Ivory Coast. The new fishing deal was initialled on Monday between the European Union and Ivory Coast and will benefit the Spanish fleet, as well as French and...
The United States has canceled the tuna embargo it imposed in 1994 to El Salvador after verifying that the Central American country has ceased the net fishing practice that endangers dolphins.
El Salvador has now become the third country in the...
After several meetings between Japanese and Mexican authorities aiming to end their differences on agricultural tariffs, both parties are on their way to reach a trade agreement, which they hope will finalize by end March.
The trade pact could have...
Australian police launched a dozen raids in two states Tuesday night to help smash a global drugs cartel that has smuggled hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the country. The global drugs cartel also had used cans of tuna to smuggle cocaine....
As restaurants across Asia took chicken off the menu during an outbreak of bird flu, investors reshuffled their portfolios on Wednesday to boost exposure to seafood and pork while-carving away fowl-related stocks.
Hoping for a swift pick-up in...
This year the Forum Fisheries Agency turns 25. This feature provides a brief overview of what they have been up to since their inception. In July 1979 the sixteen member countries of the South Pacific Forum created the Forum Fisheries Agency to help...
