Tuna

MANILA, Philippines – Tuna fishermen from General Santos City denounced yesterday the government’s continued failure to curb illegal fishing, which continues to threaten the sustainability of the local tuna fishing industry.

ZAMBOANGA CITY—Mayor Celso Lobregat extends full support to the livelihood drive for 30,000 workers in the sardine fishing sector displaced by a three-month moratorium.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine canned tuna production has gone down by around 20 percent this year due to the high seas ban on tuna fishing.

MANADO, Indonesia – What used to be an overwhelming $420-million worth in the early 2000s, the country’s tuna industry is now pegged at 30 percent lower than what it used to be when it was at its peak.

THE country’s fish production may decline by 5 percent this year following the government’s imposition of conservation measures, an official said over the weekend.

TOKYO—Fishing nations have agreed to hold their catches of young bluefin tuna in the central and western Pacific in 2011 and 2012 below the 2002-04 annual averages, press reports said Sunday.

COTABATO City: The fisheries experts in the country disclosed on Tuesday that the supply of tuna in Mindanao particularly in the fishing grounds where fishermen from General Santos City used to capture has reached its critical level—which needs further study on how to make the supply sustainable. Regional Director Sani Maca-balang of the Bureau of…

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has so far released some P3.629 million worth of assistance to more than 900 tuna industry workers here who had lost their jobs due to the impact of the two-year fishing ban in the high seas off the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — With the three-month fish aggregating device ban now in effect, the government has offered an alternative measure that would allow Filipino fishers to catch tuna in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a tuna industry official said yesterday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The tuna industry is asking the national government to work out bilateral fishing access agreements with other tuna-rich countries since the closure of portions of the Pacific Ocean for six months now has slowed down their production.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Tuna catch is declining in the southern Philippines as the warm climate continues to affect the ocean’s temperature.

MANILA, Philippines—Conservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing. These can be in the form of closing an area for any fishing activity, limiting the amount of fish that can be caught or allowing the use of only specific fishing gear.

WELLINGTON (AFP) – A week after a UN conference failed to ban trade in the critically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna, environmentalists are warning of the possible extinction of its southern hemisphere cousin.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—Gone were the days when fishing boats of the Amadeo Fishing Corp. (AFC) sailed daily to catch tuna.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has created Task Force GenSan (Gen. Santos City) to facilitate the timely delivery of services and interventions for workers in the local tuna industry which is being severely affected by international fishing groups’ imposition of a two-year ban on tuna fishing.

The tuna fishing ban in the Pacific Ocean will directly affect some 500 workers in the country’s local fishing industry, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said Saturday.

MANILA, Philippines – At least 500 fishermen in General Santos City face possible displacement as a result of the two-year tuna fishing ban in the Pacific Ocean, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

SENATORS Manuel Roxas II and Manuel Villar Jr. are seeking an inquiry into the two-year ban on tuna fishing and its impact on the industry, specifically on Mindanao.

TO PRESERVE RP’S $1-B TUNA INDUSTRY: A local chief executive of a city in Metro Manila has warned the government that the economy of Gen. Santos City, and Mindanao in general, would suffer immensely with the implementation of a two-year ban on tuna fishing in the Central and Western Pacific.

DAVAO CITY—At least 150,000 people who depend on the tuna industry in General Santos City could end up jobless as a result of a two-year ban on tuna fishing in Western and Central Pacific, a fishing magnate said.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY , Philippines  – The local tuna industry, in limbo over the last couple of months, is in for harder times following a ban imposed by the Western and Central Pacific Commission (WCPC) on all fishing operations in the high seas, or beyond the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EZZ), beginning January next…