Latest Fishing News
April 8-17, 2019
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Dongwon Founder Resigns, Hands Over Power to Son
Dongwon Group chairman and founder Kim Jae-chul has wrapped up his 50-year career in fisheries with the 84-year-old chief announcing his retirement Tuesday.
"I will step down from the chairman's post, counting on our employees' capabilities and watch and root for your performances," Kim said during the group's 50th anniversary event at Dongwon Leaders Academy in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.
Kim started Dongwon Industries in 1969 and has grown it into Korea's largest deep-sea fishing company. He expanded the business to the food industry by establishing Dongwon Food in 1981 and introduced the country's first canned tuna product the following year. More than 6.2 billion Dongwon canned tuna products have been sold.
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(Source: The Korea Times).
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Climate Change Will Redistribute Tuna
The increase in skipjack and yellowfin tuna in the tropical area, and the movement of the rest of the species (albacore, Atlantic bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna and southern bluefin tuna) towards colder waters are the main conclusions of the research led by AZTI, which has analysed the impact of climate change on the most important tuna species.
The study, led by the AZTI researchers Haritz Arrizabalaga and Maite Erauskin-Extramiana, has taken into account the effect of the environmental conditions on the worldwide distribution of tuna
species
, such as albacore, Atlantic bluefin tuna, southern bluefin tuna, tropical
bigeye tuna
, skipjack tuna and
yellowfin tuna
between 1958 and 2004, which has enabled the influence of
climate change
in the future to be assessed and specific predictions to be made.
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(Source: PHYS).
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J. Douglas Hines' Path From Tuna to TUNO
J. Douglas Hines is the CEO and managing director of AFT Holdings, a diversified holding company and the owner of All About Healthy Foods Holdings and its subsidiary Atlantic Natural Foods, which produces vegan seafood alternative products, including the Loma Linda brand of TUNO products. Additionally, through its subsidiary the South Pacific Tuna Corporation, AFT Holdings owns a fleet of Pacific Ocean-based tuna-fishing vessels,
but the company is transitioning out of that business
. Hines formerly worked as the chief operating officer and board director of canned tuna firm Bumble Bee Foods, and held executive positions at Chicken of the Sea and Mitsui.
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(Source: Seafood Source).
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US Drops Push For Bigger Pacific Tuna Catch
A decision by the United States to withdraw its push for a bigger Pacific tuna catch has delighted the Parties to the Nauru Agreement.
The PNA is made up of the island nations that control the bulk of the Pacific‘s purse seine fishery.
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, or Tuna Commission, met last week in Hawaii and the PNA‘s chief executive, Ludwig Kumoru, said they were happy with what had been achieved.
He said a critical element of this was maintaining the Tropical Tuna Measure through which bodies such as the PNA aim to keep the tuna take sustainable.
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Source: Herdon Gazette).
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Cooks and FFA to Strengthen Co-Operation
Dr Tupou-Roosen was appointed D-G by FFA Ministers during the annual FFA Council of Ministers hosted by the Cook Islands in Rarotonga last year.
The Cook Islands is the current Chair of the Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC), through prime minister and Minister of Fisheries Henry Puna and will relinquish the year-long role to the Federated States of Micronesia in June when ministers meet in Pohnpei.
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Source: Cook Islands News).
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Tuna Fishermen Say Agencies Rejected Input on New Rules
Representing large net-fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean, the American Tunaboat Association filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming government fishery regulators left industry experts in the dark about a forthcoming biological opinion that could limit commercial tuna operations.
The
complaint
, filed by Baker Botts attorney Megan Berge in Washington, D.C., federal court, names as defendants Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS.
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Source: Courthouse News Service).
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