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The political significance of Japanese fishers is indicated by the Japan Fisheries Agency’s response to mass demonstrations at soaring fuel costs in July 2008; it provided a new US$703 million subsidy to the sector. Fisher’s associations were compensated for 90 percent of the costs of fuel rises and those fishers that were so badly hit by fuel price rises that they had to halt or reduce their operations, were able to access expanded interest free loans and financial assistance. The fund for these measures expired in March 2009 with the end of the 2008/09 financial year.
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INTRODUCTION

This manual owes its inception to a cry I have heard many times in various forms.

“I wish somebody would write a decent manual for those damn first-trippers!”

The ‘first tripper’ being a derogatory term used to describe the obvious newcomer to the field, who unwittingly has broken one of the unwritten rules, or executed a hair raising landing on a nearby ship. I have also heard the phrase “R-22 virgin”, ‘lost landlubber’ and ‘150 hour wonder’ used in the same manner, indicating the low-time fresh graduate of an R-22 school with no real commercial experience.
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HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MONDAY 29 JUNE 2009: Fisheries and compliance officers from Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu are in Honiara this week to learn more about monitoring, control and surveillance of illegal fishing.

The Week 5 FFA Component of the National Fisheries Officers’ Surveillance Course opened today in Honiara at the FFA Conference Centre. This is the final week in the 5-week course, the rest of the course being conducted by AMC Search Ltd in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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We found an article in the website bajabigfish.com where a report is made on the tuna seiner from Ensenada María Rosana for illegal fishing activities inside the Bay of Loreto National Marine Park early June, graphic evidence show the above mentioned boat inside the 9 miles according with the report.

The Maria Rosana, a 61 foot tuna seiner built for Pacific waters and based out of Ensenada, Baja California (about 100 miles South of San Diego) was seen netting a reported 2-3 miles of the northern coast of Isla Coronado.
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The faces inside KOREA’S CONGLOMERATES: Dongwon

‘The take-over of StarKist will provide synergy among the Dongwon affiliates related to the tuna business.’

June 29, 2009

• Kim Jae-chul (75)
• Dongwon Group Chairman
• Bachelor’s degree in fisheries science at National Fisheries University of Busan

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The spokesman for the PNV in the Defense Committee of Congress, José Ramón Beloki, has registered a question to the Defense Minister, Carme Chacon, in which it is interested  for the “immediate” plans handled by the Central Executive to protect from pirates threat the crew members of Spanish fishing vessels and tuna-freezers  which are heading now to the Somali coast to begin the  fishing high  season.

In April 2008, the 26 crew of the tuna seiner Playa de Bakio, owned by a Bermeo company (five Basques, eight Galicians and thirteen Africans), were abducted a week at the hands of Somali pirates. Only the payment of a ransom for the vessel’s owner (local authorities spoke of $ 1.2 million, about 766,000 euros) led to the release of all hostages.

In its question in writing recorded in the lower house, Beloki says that, “echoing the deep concern of the fishing sector, want to know” what specific action to protect that area is going to take the Spanish government, whether on the frame  or not of the Operation Atalanta, the European mission against pirates in the Indian Ocean.

In his parliamentary question, the Deputy from the PNV said that the organizations of shipowners ANABAC (National Association of Tuna Freezers Shipowners) and OPAGAC (Organization of Associate Producers of Large Tuna Freezers)  have defined this season, a fishing area, located in front of the coast of Somalia and beyond its jurisdictional waters, “so that the fleet can restart their fishing activities in the Indian Ocean in a minimum security conditions.” Jose Ramon Beloki knows that this zone, which he provides the exact coordinates, lies off the coast of the Seychelles islands and between the cities of Obbian, north of Mogadishu and Mombassa, south of Kenya.

Source: El País