Conflict of interest claim in tuna fishing sector. BLOOM and ANTICOR warn of a case of public-private transfer that causes a clear conflict of interest in the tuna fishing sector. […]
European tuna fishers express fears over catch rules. ANABAC, OPAGAC and ORTHONGEL, which are organisations representing the European distant-water fleet fishing tropical tunas, have warned EU institutions about the impossibility […]
EU’s control regulation threatens French tuna purse seine fleet with extinction by 2026. The control rule on margin of tolerance is currently incompatible with the conditions and specificities inherent to […]
Purse seine industries and Seychelles launch partnership to recycle end-of-life fishing nets. On May 19th 2022, OPAGAC and ORTHONGEL launched a joint net recycling project with BRIKOLE Ltd, a new […]
Four Indian Ocean countries jointly call for proportionate tuna catch reductions. The fisheries Ministers from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles met last week at the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Fisheries […]
Europêche appoints new tuna group director. Europêche, the leading trade body representing the fishing industry in Europe, strengthens its team to boost the organisation’s support for sustainable tuna fishing and […]