Industrial fleets from top fishing countries operating in the Indian Ocean and targeting export-market species such as tuna and squid are likely to disable monitoring systems to fish more than ...

By Malavika Vyawahare In February, Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to ...

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is once again calling on the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) ...

Meanwhile, the ISSF is emphasizing the need for science-based fisheries management, and the IPNLF urges the IOTC to adopt precautionary catch limits for skipjack tuna ...

For several days a huge bluefin tuna were caught at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, but the bluefin fun came to an end after an ...

The campaign has urged members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission to develop comprehensive labour standards drawing from the ...

Among stock rating changes, Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna has shown improvement. Its abundance rating has moved from orange to yellow, while its fishing mortality rating has improved from orange to ...

Tuna stocks are increasingly threatened worldwide, due to overfishing and lack of effective management. In the Indian Ocean, difficulties in efficiently managing highly migratory tuna stocks at ...

Japanese fishermen will also be permitted to catch more small tuna, with the limit going from 4,007 to 4,407 tons. These decisions were based on the recovery of the Pacific Ocean’s tuna population.