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TUNA – LIGHT CHUNK

Prices for skipjack raw material dropped sharply and unexpectedly in the middle of February in both Thailand and the Philippines. Fishing boats were queuing up in Bangkok with very little interest from the canneries to purchase additional fish. The factories have been sitting with their freezers packed to capacity with skipjack raw material. From a level of $1120 per metric ton in January, raw material pricing has reached a low of $900 per metric ton. Read the rest of this entry »

The Foreign and National Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan passed a motion Jan. 4 calling for Taiwan to become an official member of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.

David Y.L. Lin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Taiwan will join the commission under the name “Chinese Taipei.” The decision will raise Taiwan’s position from observer to membership status, he noted, adding that Taiwan will now have greater participatory rights. The cost of membership will be US$160,000 per year, Lin said. Read the rest of this entry »

According with the site: gcaptain.com report the incident of the TriMarine company purse seiner

The F/V “Cape Elizabeth”, formally the F/V “Tradition” sank last night and is now at the bottom of the sea. Read the rest of this entry »

PAPUA New Guinea could lose millions of kina through a decline in its stock of tuna as a result of climate change.While the Government is planning to build tuna canneries and processing plants, it does not have a plan to prevent the migration or loss of the tuna.

Prof Simon Saulei, who is the director of the Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute, sounded this warning yesterday.”In the next 20 to 30 years, there will be a decline in the tune stocks due to climate change and its adverse effects on the marine environment.
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Following a steady increase over six months in sea surface temperatures in the Central Pacific Ocean, the National Agency of United States and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, for its acronym in English) confirmed the start of the climatological phenomenon known as El Niño.

The mere mention of El Niño, a weather event associated with increased temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that occurs every four or five years and affects weather around the world, is for many an alarm signal.
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by FRANCESCA VELLA

A month into the tuna fishing season, Malta reached its quota and the season was brought to an abrupt close on Friday morning, but a number of fishermen had not yet reached their individual quotas, and loopholes in this year’s regulations that allowed for misappropriation of quotas were exposed.

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