Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a forthcoming management meeting doesn't dramatically change the way they are harvested, WWF warned ...

2024 was a record year for tropical tuna catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, thanks to a big increase in skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) catch, and stocks are considered healthy. So when the ...

Bigeye, yellowfin, South Pacific albacore, and skipjack tuna are all reported to be in healthy condition, according to a 2018 stock assessment announced this week during the 16th Western and Central ...

The percentage of global commercial tuna catch coming from healthy stocks has increased to 88%, up two percentage points from March, according to the latest update from the International Seafood ...

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But for many of Australia’s island neighbours supplying the Thai canning industry and fresh markets, the impact could be devastating. For them, tuna fishing is big business – worth an estimated US$4.9 ...

Funafuti, Tuvalu — Kauaka Petaia guided his motorboat out of Tuvalu’s main lagoon at dawn and into the vast Pacific Ocean, where he and his nephew scanned the rolling horizon for signs of their ...

Of the total commercial tuna catch worldwide, 81% came from stocks at "healthy" levels of abundance, according to the October 2019 International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) Status of the ...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FCF Fishery Company (FCF) and the Western Pacific Sustainable Tuna Alliance announced today that the Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin free school ...

Climate change driven redistribution of key commercial tuna species will deliver an economic blow to the small island states of the Western and Central Pacific and threaten the sustainability of the ...

After the frenzy was over off Mexico’s Pacific coast, the Excel’s Shawn Steward filed the best report of his young career as a long-range sportfishing captain. “Everybody on board has at least one ...

Mercury concentrations in Hawaiian-caught bigeye and yellowfin tuna are steadily rising and mirror increases in North Pacific waters that have been linked to atmospheric mercury emissions from Asia.