It appears that the dawn of the new decade has ushered in an era of readjustment and consolidation in the global tuna industry with special focus on resource sustainability. A move by some European nations to put northern bluefin tuna under CITES List I, if successful, would result in a total trade ban of the species resulting in the collapse of the multi-billion dollar sashimi tuna trade. Even otherwise, many other developments are bound to affect the trade in high-valued tunas. ICCAT’s and CSSBT’s decision to reduce quotas for northern bluefin and southern bluefin tunas respectively and the proposed moratorium on bigeye tuna fishing in the western and central Pacific ocean will undoubtedly reduce sashimi tuna supplies and much affect the market. Read the rest of this entry »
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TUNA 2010 To Guide Global Tuna Industry Into The New Decade
Bahamas – Controversy induce to policy changes in purse seiner fishing?
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 »
Solomon Islands – Earth Island Institute warns again
EARTH Island Institute (EII) last week warned that no foreign tuna processing company will invest in Guadalcanal as long as dolphin export and capture activities continues.
Director of the institute Mark Berman who is currently in the country for a week said this.
He made the stern warning following revelation that a Korean Tuna company is having talks with the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources Nollen Leni. Read the rest of this entry »
PNA countries meet in Palau
Leaders from the countries which are the Parties to the Nauru Agreement are meeting in Palau to discuss how to increase their returns from tuna fishing.
The PNA countries include the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
The agreement aims to develop innovative ways to maximise economic gains from sustainable management of the countries’ tuna fisheries. Read the rest of this entry »
Vanuatu residents doubt worth of environment report on tuna cannery
The Residents Against Processing Tuna, or RAPT, group in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila says there are questions over the robustness of the Environment Impact Assessment of the Blacksands Tuna Processing Plant.
Although the EIA is yet to be completed, the plant is nearly operational and civil society groups claim there is a conflict of interest over the role in this assessment of the main two parties behind the project, the Vanuatu Government and China. Read the rest of this entry »
Brothers refute charges of harmfull fishing
By GENEA NOEL
Freeport News Reporter
Freeport, Grand Bahama- A net tuna fishing boat preying in the waters of Grand Bahama is allegedly the centre of an investigation by the Department of Marine Resources for being equipped with a device that can pose much threat to our treasured marine resources. Read the rest of this entry »
