Latest Fishing News
8-14 June 2021
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Tuna Transshipment in Majuro Shows First Sign of Rebound
In the wake of the Marshall Islands government dropping its 14-day quarantine period for fishing boats to enter Majuro lagoon, tuna transshipment activity leaped during May, doubling the totals of the previous four months.
Transshipment data from the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) shows there were 24 transshipments in May, which included 22 involving transfer of tuna from purse seiners to carrier vessel and two "unloadings" into freezer containers at the main commercial dock.
May's total is the highest in one month since December 2019, when Majuro saw 33 transshipments. The 24 is also higher than the monthly totals for all of 2020, indicating the slump the Majuro has been in as a result of COVID-19. Continue reading here (Source: Radio New Zealand).
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Fish Cannery Changes in American Samoa
Workers at American Samoan tuna cannery StarKist are bracing for a one shift per day operation for the rest of the month.
There are normally two shifts per day, but there's been a shortage of fish and employees to process them.
Workers have vented on social media claiming tough working conditions, while those who've taken unexcused absences are being fired.
Some of those who've been notified of termination have been missing work for up to months on end, as they've received stimulus checks. Continue reading here (Source: Marianas Variety).
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Why the World's Most Fertile Fishing Ground Is Facing A "Unique and Dire' Threat
Since long before the steel-hulled fishing boats from foreign countries arrived in the South Pacific its people have had their own systems for sharing the ocean’s catches.
In the New Zealand territory of Tokelau, in the middle of the region, the 1,400 people living on its three atolls practice a system called inati, which ensures every household gets fish.
Several times a month all atoll men are given time to prepare and bait lines and the “grey hairs” – as leaders are called – decide on the targeted fish, including tuna and trevally, using traditional knowledge of the best grounds, along with tides and the phases of the moon. They set off late at night and return 12 hours later, well after the sun has risen. Their catch is then sorted into different species and sizes. Bigger families get bigger shares. Continue reading here (Source: The Guardian).
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Marshalls Vaccinates Fishermen in Majuro
The Marshall Islands launched Covid-19 vaccinations for commercial fishermen temporarily in port Majuro this past week - possibly the first Pacific island to vaccinate fishermen.
With the country vaccination program nearing 80 percent completion for the two urban centers, and public health teams now conducting vaccinations for remote outer islands, the Ministry of Health and Human Services announced earlier in the month that it would begin offering the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine for fishermen.
The vast majority of commercial fishermen working both purse seine and longline vessels are Asian. On the locally flagged purse seiners, about 40 Marshallese work as crew. Continue reading here (Source: Radio New Zealand).
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Modernizing Catch Reporting in American Samoa & Hawaii
What was the total catch of American Samoa and Hawai‘i longline vessels last year?
Since the early 1990s, the Pacific Islands Region has relied on fishermen filing paper catch reports called “logbooks” to answer these important management questions.
This summer, all Hawai‘i and American Samoa longline vessels more than 50-feet long will switch from paper to electronic logbooks, ushering in a new era for monitoring these fisheries.
With the old way, longline captains fill out one logbook sheet for every day of fishing during their trip. Then they submit their full trip’s log sheets to the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) when they return to port. Continue reading here (Source: Talanei).
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Seychelles-Flagged Purse Seiners Get Increase in Yellowfin Tuna Catch to 35,800 Tonnes
Seychelles-flagged purse seiners now have a yellowfin tuna catch allocation of 35,800 tonnes, as the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission's (IOTC) relooks at the allocation mechanism for the species through adopting a new resolution to be effective next year.
The allocation of yellowfin for Seychelles' purse seiner fleet was 33,211 metric tonnes for the year which was equally divided among the 13 vessels flying the flag of the island nation in the western Indian Ocean.
The change in allocation for Seychelles and other countries follows the 25th meeting session of the IOTC that took place June 7-11. Continue reading here (Source: Seychelles News Agency).
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Panama Doubles the Size of its Protected Marine Areas
Panama has taken a giant leap forward in protecting its waters. The Central American country is rich in biodiversity but it is also one of the countries most threatened by climate change. On June 8 – World Oceans Day – it announced it would expand a marine reserve in its Pacific waters to cover 67,742 square kilometers. That’s close in size to its land mass of 75,517 square kilometers.
The area incorporates the Cordillera de Coiba, an area rich in fish stocks and an important feeding ground for many marine species. Combined with the neighboring reserves of Colombia’s waters, the protected area will expand to 121,341 square kilometers, making it the third largest marine reserve in the tropical Pacific. “We are very happy,” said Milciades Concepción, Panama’s environment minister. “The whole region is very excited that Panama is going to achieve this.” Continue reading here (Source: El Pais).
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WTO Convenes Key Meeting of Trade Mins on July 15 on Fisheries Subsidies
The chief of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has convened a meeting of all trade ministers on July 15 to iron out differences with regard to providing fisheries subsidies, sources said.
The aim is to conclude the negotiations soon and after that a text is finalised so that an agreement on fisheries can be reached in the forthcoming Ministerial meet of WTO in December in Geneva.
Hectic negotiations are going on in Geneva on the matter. The objective of these negotiations is to discipline subsidies with the overall objective to have sustainable fishing and to eliminate IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing subsidies and prohibit subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing. Continue reading here (Source: Daily Pioneer).
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Current MGO Price Indications
*Prices are indications only.
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USD2.16/gallon | USD572/KL |
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USD2.21/gallon | USD584/KL |
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USD2.03/gallon | USD537/KL |
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USD1.96/gallon | USD518/KL |
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USD2.45/gallon | USD649/KL |
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USD2.30/gallon | USD607/KL |
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USD2.22/gallon | USD586/KL |
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USD3.26/gallon | USD861/KL |
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USD2.21/gallon | USD584/KL |
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Pago Pago, American Samoa |
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USD2.28/gallon | USD602/KL |
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USD2.21/gallon | USD584/KL |
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USD2.06/gallon | USD546/KL |
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USD2.10/gallon | USD554/KL |
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USD1.97/gallon | USD521/KL |
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