The South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced this week that they are reducing their purse seine fishing vessels by more than half. SPTC will be selling more than half of their 14 U.S.-flagged ...

fish like tuna and mackerel. A vertical net ‘curtain’ is used to surround the school of fish, the bottom of which is then drawn together to enclose the fish, rather like tightening the cords of a ...

The website of my budget oil-packed pick, Rio Mare, claims to use a combination of pole and line catching and purse seiners, while Good & Gather, my top budget pick for water-packed, catches tuna ...

It also highlights the serious inconsistencies in the register of the fleet targeting bluefin tuna, with a broad mismatch of records between ICCAT, the EU and national fleet registers. Up to 163 purse ...

However, bycatch is a serious issue. Since juvenile yellowfin and bigeye tuna often school with adult skipjack, they are caught by purse seine vessels that target skipjack. The skipjack tuna, while ...

You will find FAD-free, pole-and-line or purse-seine caught skipjack tuna available in stores. FADs or fish aggregating devices are man-made floats used to attract tuna; purse seine fishing, which ...

Although the fleet of Spanish purse seiners registered in Seychelles have noted a drop in catch for the yellowfin tuna in 2023, the first half of 2024 seems to be back to the normal average ...

Skipjack—the smallest, most common species of tuna—travel in large schools through the Western Central Pacific Ocean. Most skipjack is caught by purse seine fishing: A ship unfurls a cylindrical net ...

The El Nino effect and other natural phenomena caused the tuna to go deeper in the ocean. "Purse seine fishing operations rely on tuna schools located near the surface of the water. They also rely ...

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