Industry body set to advocate increased TAC for bluefin tuna, management plans for sharks and recovery of Mediterranean swordfish at ICCAT’s annual meeting

Nirsa, Eurofish and Jadran Group signed a MoU with WWF to implement a project for the improvement of the tuna purse seiner fishery

By Alicia Villegas

Preferential tariffs will continue through the end of 2016 or until the deal comes into force, which is expected by October next year 

Fishery managers have agreed on bottomfish and bigeye tuna catch limits for three US Pacific territories

Hawaii's bigeye tuna fishery in the western and central Pacific Ocean has reopened to fishing after a two month closure.

Fish consumption among Fiji's coastal communities is as high as 113 kilograms per person per year, the fisheries ministry has revealed

Despite a lack of reporting, human rights issues occur in the Pacific, said Patricia Kailola, acting CEO of Pacific Dialogue, at the Pacific Tuna Forum held in Fiji in September

By Tom Seaman

US tuna's big three in legal trouble; Pacific Andes under regulators' scrutiny; High Liner's shares in free-fall; Young's on ropes: the last 12 months have been turbulent for some of seafood’s largest companies, with the outlook for the next year not looking much different

Environmentalists on Friday asked a federal judge to stop the NMFS from allowing Hawaii-based fishermen to attribute some of the bigeye tuna they catch to US territories