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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 »

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 »

Mazatlan, Sinaloa on June 16, 2009 .-
JULIO BARRAZA BUESO is the skipper of the modern fishing tuna seiner  “FRANZ” who with 23 years in the tuna fishing has obtained for two consecutive years 2007 and 2008 the number one in catches in the Mexican tuna fleet, capturing more than 5000 tonnes per year.

Born in Mazatlan, Mexico with 44 years of age, graduated from the Nautical School of Mazatlan has the title of navy captain and close to qualify as a captain in deep fishing, is one of a group of captains / navigators that become fishing captains through experience they have obtained as a navigator in a tuna boat.
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J. Roberto Abreu Da Luz. Is the new fishing captain for the ” Azteca 3 “

With 37 years of age, a native of the island of Madeira in Portugal, with approximately 20 years working in the tuna fihing on both coasts of the Pacific Ocean, with three years experience as a fisheries technician, skipper of the ships “Carmela” “Don Francesco and Los Roques, now has been hired by the Mexican company Pesca Azteca leader in tuna fishing in America, those with a modern fleet of purse seine vessels, including the former Alfa Coinseco now called” Azteca 3 ” modern vessel capable of carrying 1170 tons, of Canadian manufacturing which now through the waters of the Eastern Pacific under the command of fishing Captain Abreu Da Luz.
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