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 »
“Uncharted Waters” Brings New Meaning to Fishing for Business
LOS ANGELES – In Anthony Zolezzi’s new book, “Uncharted Waters, Boat to Boardroom; Lessons I’ve Learned” (ASM Books, 2010), the secrets of a successful entrepreneur are very similar to the secrets of a good fisherman.
At least that’s the case for Anthony Zolezzi whose book reads as a personal memoir and professional guide filled with useful “fisherman philosophies” and modern business axioms that can be applied to today’s turbulent career climate. Read the rest of this entry »
By ADRIAN FLORIDO
The news spread quickly across Point Loma last week. On Sunday, the Cape Elizabeth, a 225-foot tuna fishing boat captained by one of the neighborhood’s own, caught fire and sank in western Pacific waters north of American Samoa.
Julio Guidi and his 21 crewmembers were rescued by a passing boat. By Tuesday evening, Guidi was on his way home. Read the rest of this entry »
Bermeo. The ship Playa de Azkorri departed for over a month ago from the cruise ship dock in Getxo. It has little to do with the Queen Mary. It is a tuna boat, built and designed to fish. However, it has every possible comfort for a crew of 28 men enrolled to earn bread for their children in the Gulf of Guinea in the four-month long campaigns far from the family. Read the rest of this entry »
As managing director of Associated Producers Organization of Big Tuna Seiners(Opagac), which grouped together with ANABAC eight tuna boat owners which at the same time owning 37 tuna boats, Julio Morón warns that the fleet operating in the Indian “has no fisheries alternative, or is capable of conversion to other fishing gear. The solution, according to this doctor in Biological Sciences is to improve the safety of the crew “or we will face stop, leaving direct employment to over 1,200 people and affecting more than 6,000 indirect jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
