By Tristan McConnell – GlobalPost
VICTORIA, Seychelles — It takes less than five hours to turn a fresh fish into a canned meal and the biggest tuna cannery in the Indian Ocean produces 1.5 million cans every day.
Francois Rossi, operations manager of French-owned Indian Oceans Tuna, gave GlobalPost a tour of the immense facility, a key driver of the Seychellois economy under one huge metal roof. Read the rest of this entry »
By Robert Matau
IT is 1 am in the morning in Honiara and Ambrose Orianihaa gets a telephone call from Taiwan from a purse seiner fishing boat skipper who wants to fish in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Because of the time difference, Orianihaa must get back to the Taiwanese ship to confirm where the observers are to rendezvous with the fishing vessel. Read the rest of this entry »
We all know the importance of the tuna canneries for American Samoa. Aside from corporate contributions, they provide employment to U.S. nationals/ citizens (about 20%) and Samoans and other nationalities (about 80%).
In other words, while most of the employees do contribute to our economy through income taxes, consumables and other living expenses— they also send monies to their families in other countries. The plants also use utilities like water, electricity, solid waste, etc., but the majority of the things that they need come in containers from wherever (imported), including parts, ingredients, equipment and even furniture— some of which are personal items for the salary workers. These imported items are exempt from excise taxes, aside from the other tax exemptions that the canneries get from the local government. Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines—Conservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing. These can be in the form of closing an area for any fishing activity, limiting the amount of fish that can be caught or allowing the use of only specific fishing gear. Read the rest of this entry »
Some time has passed since the Mellor Brothers sent to tunaseiners.com an e-mail requesting assistance to purchase a purse seine fishing vessel for the Bahamas area See article here.
Apparently they succeeded and bought a boat: Pelagic I that we can deduce by the images were acquired in Europe and does not match the type of boat seines used in tropical waters in either the Western or Eastern Pacific. Read the rest of this entry »
By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
The inaugural Seychelles Tuna Conference kicks off on Thursday. One of the three-day event’s sponsors is the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Fresh off last month’s Coral Triangle Initiative Business Summit in the Philippines, ISSF President Susan Jackson will give a talk titled “ISSF: Undertaking Science-based Initiatives for the Long-Term Conservation and Sustainable Use of Tuna Stocks” at the Seychelles Tuna Conference on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
