Expected restrictions on industrial tuna fishing have been stalled pending the publication of a decree signed by former President Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014). Though Chinchilla signed the decree, it ...

Increasing catch levels of yellowfin tuna and the lack of any effective control of fishing effort by management: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be yet ...

Statistics are beginning to show what people in Costa Rica and on the water already knew: Fish stocks are improving in areas where tuna purse seine boats are prohibited. Purse seiner boats are large ...

This WWF-commissioned report, researched and compiled by independent consultancy ATRT, is the first ever real estimate of the actual catch capability of the Mediterranean purse seine fleet targeting ...

A new report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has found only a marginal lift in the global large-scale tropical tuna purse seine (known as LSPS) fishing fleet ...

This picture of early tuna purse seining operations in the tropical Pacific Ocean illustrates the potential for fishermen to inadvertently catch dolphins and other marine mammals as byproduct.

Kongsberg Digital concluded a new project funded by FHF (the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) for the development of its K-Sim Fishery simulator to incorporate a new purse seine application. The new ...

For my presentation on a scientific paper in “Global Change in Marine Systems”, I looked at a scientific paper titled the “Effects of Gear Characteristics on the Presence of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tuna love to congregate around objects adrift at sea, so industrial fishing vessels release thousands of man-made plastic-heavy fish aggregating ...