Changes in the composition and future of the sector on an international plane will allow the European Union to continue to maintain the position it holds today in global fishery production arena. As three new Member States join the EU in 2007, and...
“The New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries has admitted that Fishery Officers face sophisticated multi-national criminal networks who are carrying out and supporting large scale illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) Fishing,†said Martin Cooney,...
Stricter punishments should be imposed on countries catching fish illegally, the international Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday.
The Rome-based agency called on governments to increase penalties and cooperate more to suppress trade in...
The World Wide Fund for Nature warned in a recent report that illegal fishing for Bluefin tuna is pervasive in Europe in order to meet Japanese market demand. The caught tuna are transferred to cages in which they are fattened for six or seven...
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) has netted a 47-metre Philippines registered long liner, caught illegally fishing in a restricted area. The SFA called in the coastguard after their Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) picked up the Sun Tai 2 in a...
The director of Hotel Shangri-La, Mr. Armeen Kassardjan, in Ghana has denied all the allegations leveled against him in the MV DIANA III case currently before the Ghanaian Fast Track Court (FTC).
Opening his defense at the court presided over by...
The Cook Islands' economy looks set to get a multi-million dollar boost thanks to a deal with Chinese firm Shanghai Deep Sea Fisheries (SDSF), Cook Islands News reported on Tuesday. Ten purpose built SDSF vessels would fish Cook Islands'...
COS Samoa Packing Company is commemorating 50 years of operations in American Samoa
COS Samoa Packing Company began operations at their present site in Atu'u January 1954 and is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in American Samoa this month. It...
Eighty-four Members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have concluded a four-day meeting on how to strengthen international cooperation on managing fishing capacity and combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
At...
Last week Sunday, in a joint patrolling effort between the Ecuadorian Navy and the Galapagos National Park (GNP), the longliner “Gaviota†from Manta, Ecuador was captured. The vessel was fishing in the west of the archipelago.
The GNP boat...
Kiribati President Anote Tong marks his one-year anniversary in office during the mid-July celebrations of Kiribati's 25th anniversary of independence. His most important accomplishment-aside from the widely publicized shift in diplomatic...
In Australia this tuna season is shaping up to be unlike any other with more product than ever being sold in small fresh batches as opposed to large frozen contracts.
Increasing supply into Japan from farms in the Mediterranean and elsewhere have...
Malta’s tuna landings from long lines are about five per cent higher this year over 2003, Charles Azzopardi, of Azzopardi Fisheries in St Paul's Bay, said last week.In spite of this bonanza - when one takes into account that there was a record...
Strong sales of John West tuna products in supermarkets around Australia translates into a bright future for Port Lincoln Tuna Processors and the hundreds of workers employed there. And anyone walking into the new state-of-the-art section of the...
The Ministry of Fisheries (MFish) will close the Southern Bluefin Tuna fishery at 11.59pm (23:59) on Monday, 12 July 2004, until the end of the fishing year on 30 September 2004, because it expects the catch limit will be filled around that date....
Some experts warn that in three to five years some species of tuna in the Pacific will face depletion if fishing is not controlled immediately.
Greenpeace Media Officer Carolin Wenzel said there was a need to erase pirate fishing in the Pacific and...
Italian investors are considering building a yellowfin tuna processing plant in Ensenada, in the state of Baja California. In the meantime, stakeholders that are involved in fattening of bluefin tuna in Ensenada evaluate the possibility of building...
The Spanish captain of a vessel that was caught allegedly fishing illegally in Namibian waters in mid-June was informed on Thursday that he is set to know more about his fate this week.
Jorge Alonso Martinez (24), captain of the Spanish-registered...
Fisheries officials are increasingly expressing concern about possible over-fishing of yellowfin tuna in the Pacific.
Even as recently as two years ago, Forum Fisheries Agency officials identified only big-eye tuna as being in danger of...
December will find the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Pohnpei State stepping into the spotlight on the world stage as hosts to both the first meeting of the Tuna Commission and the last Preparatory Conference (PrepCon) of the Commission....
Japan will try to gain support from other countries to get Taiwan to reduce the number of its tuna fishing boats operating in the western and central Pacific Ocean, the Fisheries Agency said Friday.
Tokyo will take the action because Taiwan is...
The Spanish Xunta of Galicia (regional government) authorized last week the signing of an agreement for close collaboration between the Innovation, Industry and Trade Council and the National Association of Canned Fish Producers together with the...
The new fishing season for Northern Bluefin started last May. Since then and until now, about 200,000 kilos of Northern Bluefin from the Mediterranean have been unloaded in the Port of Denia, Spain. This represents an increase of 30,000 kilos...
Close to 3,000 people who gathered at Veterans Memorial Stadium to celebrate COS Samoa Packing's 50 years of operation in Tutuila earlier this month heard some little known facts about the beginnings of the tuna industry in the territory.
The...
According reports in the Mexican press, the Italian government could eliminate -in the next months- the 24% tariff it has on Mexican tuna, which could create an increase of Mexican tuna exports towards Italy. The Ensenada Fishery subdelegate, Jorge...
Greenpeace is calling on the Fiji Government to do more to battle the problem of illegal fishing in the country’s economic zone as well as the region. The environmental group yesterday released a dossier of vessels it alleges are “pirate fishing...
The chief executive officer (CEO) of Samoa Packing's parent company in Central America, Dennis Mussel, has agreed to change the registered name of “Samoa Packing, Chicken of the Sea†to “Samoa Packing, Sina o le Vasa.â€
His decision was publicly...
The number of foreign fishing vessels trespassing into the Brunei waters has increased. This has caused great losses in tuna fisheries resources worth millions of dollars to the country.
Dato Awang Haji Idris bin Haji Belaman, Permanent Secretary...
COS Samoa Packing Company wishes to make it known to all interested parties that the recent report of an elevated histamine level in a can of Chicken of the Sea brand tuna has not been substantiated. A significant number of additional samples from...
The Philippine government plans to implement in Mindanao over the next few months an automated export documentation system (AEDS) for various industries in a bid to further enhance the shipment of local products, such as canned tuna to the...
According to reports in the Mexican press Mexico will continue to attempt to export its tuna to the European market. This was the main target for the visit of the fishery chief of the Mexican National Commission for Aquaculture and Fishery, Ramon...
Over thousands of springtimes, as far back as Homer’s Odyssey, the fishermen of Favignana have battled giant bluefin tuna lured into vast chambers of intricate netting. This year, the nets were empty.
The ancient “mattanzas†(slaughters) of Atlantic...
During the general assembly of Interatun, held this week in the city of Vigo, in Galicia, Spain, where a considerable number of tuna fishing and processing companies are based, it was announced that due to “differences in opinionâ€, the National...
The long-term viability of the Mediterranean tuna farming industry has been questioned with claims too many fish are being caught.
Port Lincoln's tuna farmers suffering because of the influx of tuna into Japan are watching closely to see what...
A research project in the USA, which follows the behavior of albacore tuna by using archival tags, found that these beautiful fish dive to depths as deep as 350 meters.
The long-term Archival Tagging Project was undertaken in 2001 by the Southwest...
After the surrender of notorious ring leader Joynal Speaker in Bangladesh last year, another gang of pirates has emerged which has kept several thousand fishermen virtually hostage in the country’s Meghna estuary now. Fishermen have to keep red...
The German captain of a vessel that collided with a fish farm being towed by a tug-boat owned by Melita Tuna Ltd was charged yesterday with damaging tuna cages through imprudence, carelessness or non-observance of regulations.
Leling Uwe, 45, was...
For thousands of springtimes, as far back as the time of Odysseus, fishermen of Favignana have battled giant bluefin tuna lured into the vast chambers of their nets. This year, the nets were empty.
The ancient “mattanzas†(slaughters) of Atlantic...
Vadamarachi North Fisheries Societies Federation in Jaffna district last week complained that hundreds of Indian trawlers are daily engaged in poaching in the Sri Lanka northern territorial waters. These Indian trawlers are seen about 12 km from the...
No foreign trawlers are fishing in the territorial waters of Pakistan and the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) is monitoring the activities of licensed vessels by satellite, said Sikandar Hayat Bosan, state minister for agriculture, on Friday.
The...
In a meeting with Overseas Territories Minister Brigitte Girardin in Paris on Friday, Polynesia President Oscar Temaru took stock of Polynesian economic issues such as the fishing industry.
The Polynesian delegation led by Temaru brought up the...
According to the secretary general of the Spanish National Association of Canned Fish Producers (ANFACO), Juan Vieites, Spain’s cannery sector has expressed its discontent with increased, stringent controls on tuna landings carried out by the local...
In order to provide consumers with a convenient, no-fuss and healthy chicken-based food, Purefoods-Hormel has decided to meet the consumer's needs by launching canned chicken.
With these new products, Purefoods expressed optimism it could...
The tuna processing plant in Guanta, Venezuela, owned by the Spanish tuna canning Group Calvo, suffered about Eur 500,000 in damages caused by armed gang attacks last Tuesday. Because of these damages the company will consequently shut down...
A new study out yesterday suggests that tuna or broiled/baked fish lowers the risk of an irregular hearbeat among elderly people. The study is published in yesterday’s issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Dariush...
In the Pacific, off Fujnafuti, Tuvalu:Rocking in the ocean swells, the fishers held up empty hands when their rusting tub of a tuna boat was hailed from a passing skiff.
"No, it's bad! The fishing is bad!" Tanemuga Tenae shouted across from his...
Three fishermen from Kiribati are safe after enduring more than 70 days of drifting in the open ocean. They floated into Arno Atoll in the Marshall Islands, more than 300 miles north of their home atoll of Tarawa over the weekend and now have...
John West has announced the appointment of Andrew Gidden as Sales and Trade Marketing General Manager, effective immediately. Mr. Gidden’s new role includes responsibility for John West’s commercial focus, ensuring it continues to be the leading UK...
A proposal, which has been drawn up as a conclusion of a workshop on the Compliance with the MHLC and WCPFC resolutions on tuna fishing in Western Central Pacific, demands that Taiwan scrapes 23 tuna purse seiner of each 1000 M/T by July 31st 2007....
A red tide has appeared this week on the coasts of Ensenada, in the State of Baja California, killing close to 10 tons of bluefin tuna, which were being fattened in an aquaculture farm. Each fattening cage holds an average of 40 tons of tuna.
After...
A tuna fishing vessel, the biggest and most modern in Vietnam, was launched on Tuesday in central coastal Nha Trang city. The ship, designed using Japanese technology, is equipped with modern facilities for fishing and preserving fish, as well as on...
The hustle and bustle at Port Lincoln commercial wharves is becoming worse as the fishing fleet expands and demand increases for limited space.
The pilchard fleet alone has grown dramatically with many of the 14 license holders using very large...
A new world-beating experiment has seen scientists place tuna and kingfish in a giant sealed plastic bag to discover how their streamlined bodies convert food into energy.
The 12-metre-wide, heavy-duty plastic bag or “mesocosm†was suspended inside...
The UK government today (22 July 2004) committed to banning the British pair-trawling fishery, which is responsible for hundreds of dolphin deaths every year.
The decision follows a campaign by Greenpeace, which involved the launch of a legal...
At a meeting in Lima, Peru, earlier this month the countries that concord with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) reached an agreement to execute the IATTC ban for yellowfin tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean where Mexico fishes this...
The tuna season in Canada’s Prince Edward Island is set to open today, Monday, with hundreds of license-holders ready to take to the waters in the hope of catching one of the large and lucrative Bluefin tuna.
At North Lake the average fish in 2003...
The Costa Rican tuna sector has voiced its opinion on the Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill, which is currently being debated, pointing out that the officials responsible for its approval must take the potential benefits that the tuna industry might...
Produce manufacturer and distributor Del Monte Foods Co. said Friday that its operating chief for the past seven years, Wesley J. Smith, is retiring and the company is realigning three executive roles relating to the 2002 purchase of certain...
Britain is to seek the closure of Europe's major dolphin-killing fishing grounds, where most of the boats involved are French, the Government announced last week.
It is asking the European Commission to shut the winter sea bass fishery in the...
Miss Theresa Adams, an employee of Pioneer Food Cannery (PFC) has won the Heinz “Premier Awardâ€, a special recognition program to award Heinz employees who have displayed consistent good behaviors and achieved business objectives inspired by the...
Members of the public are being enlisted to eat raw fish in the latest move to help improve Port Lincoln's lucrative tuna exports.
The untrained panel of 56 has been tasting sashimi from fish treated with various vitamins aimed at extending the...
The monitoring, control and surveillance section of the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region 8 has scored a big catch with the apprehension of a Taiwanese fishing vessel some 70 miles off the coast of Maydolong,...
During the second quarter in 2004, 324,088 kilograms of fresh fish were landed at the official fish market, an increase of 33,880 kilograms or 11.7 per cent when compared to the same quarter last year, reported Malta’s National Statistics Office...
The Mexican tuna fleet continues to face a bad year. Its catch during the first six months of 2004 was slightly over 62,828 tons, while already reaching 91,543 tons in 2003. Therefore reflecting 28,715 tons less catch than during this same period...
Official European statistics point out that the number of non-European fleets fishing with drift nets has extremely grown, and currently in the Mediterranean there are more than 500 new fishery vessels from third countries using this fishing method....
Ms. Vella said Bicref was worried by the lack of inspections and effective implementation of measures to protect Malta's marine environment.
"These dead fish may be agents of disease that may spread to different marine organisms with wide...
In Vietnam a center for tuna purchase, processing and storing will be built in Tuy Hoa Township, southern coastal Phu Yen province, in early 2005, the Vietnam provincial Fisheries Department said on Tuesday. The center, the first of its kind in the...
Undeclared landings, misreporting and under-reporting of catches from Europe’s fishing fleets are going undetected, warns a new Brussels report.A Brussels ‘2004 Fisheries Compliance Scoreboard’ reveals that substantial improvements are required to...
The Calvo canning group incorporates three helicopters to its fleet operating in the Pacific Ocean.
Calvo purchased the three crafts from the American manufacturer Robinson Helicopter Company for its tuna fishing vessels.
The total investment...
The cold season in Ecuador affects the activity of the domestic fishing sector. The temperature this year is lower than normal and has caused a reduction of catches close to 40 percent.
Nevertheless, cases exist where the reduction of the fishing...
