Regional Tuna Tagging Project - Indian Ocean - Latest News
1st Tag Recovered in Oman (Added : 18/10/2006)
Tag Recovery Officer Salim Al Hasani - based at MAF Headquarters, Muscat ...
1st Tag Recovered in Oman (Added : 17/10/2006)
The Project was informed by our friends at the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) on 27/09/06 that a first tag had been recovered in Omani waters.The Tag was recovered by fisherman ...
Steering Committee Success (Added : 17/10/2006)
The 2nd Project Steering Committee was a resounding success. Attended by delegates from all over the Indian Ocean Region and Europe, all were pleased by the Project's progress and continuing ability to meet its objectives. ...
100,000 Mark Reached (Added : 17/10/2006)
On 3rd October 2006, the champagne was cracked open as the Project tagged and released its 100,000 Tuna! The following is an letter of thanks and appreciation to those on board the tagging vessels from ...
2nd RTTP-IO Steering Committee to meet on 14th Septembe (Added : 01/09/2006)
Nearly 90,000 tuna will have been tagged by the time the 2nd Project Steering Committee convenes at the International Conference Centre in Victoria, Seychelles on 14th September for 2 days of meetings. Delegates are coming from all ...
80,000 released – minimum goal achieved! (Added : 17/08/2006)
At 10:00am on Tuesday 15th August 2006, the project tagged and released its 80,000th tuna. This means that the RTTP-IO’s minimum contractual target has been met. What makes this feat so extraordinary is that it ...
Tag team meeting the tunas challenge (Added : 03/08/2006)
Most countries depend on tuna fish. But are we fishing it sustainably? In an attempt to provide answers to this vital question, a major project, the Regional Tuna Tagging Project (RTTP-IO), is underway to increase ...
Tuna tagging project in full flow (Added : 03/08/2006)
Marine scientists with the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) have announced a successful start to a Regional Tuna Tagging Programme, with over 6,000 fish tagged in the last three months. The Nation, Seychelles - 8th of ...
70,000 Mark Reached (Added : 20/07/2006)
Last Tuesday was a big landmark for the team. After 15 months of tagging, the number of releases has exceeded 70,000. This means that we are now less than 10,000 away from acheiving our minimum ...
New discovery in Yellowfin tuna behaviour (Added : 13/03/2006)
The joint effort of two research projects on tuna in Seychelles, FADIO, a European project on the fish behaviour around floating objects, involving the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD), ...
R3, 000 for IOT worker in first tuna tag lottery (Added : 09/03/2006)
Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT) factory worker, Chandran Shascaran, is R3, 000 better off today after winning prize in the first ever national lottery for tags removed from caught tuna and returned to the Indian Ocean ...
Seychelles to hold first Tuna Tagging Lottery (Added : 04/03/2006)
In celebration of the first anniversary of the launch of the Indian Ocean Regional Tuna Tagging Project, the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is entering the 1000 tags already recovered in Seychelles into a lottery. The ...
Marquage de Thons (Added : 03/02/2006)
Three stevedores received 60 000 Ariary each last Thursday at the Hotel Colbert. Each had found a tagged tuna. The lucky people that fins a tagged tuna can take it to USTA, Unite Statisitique Thonier ...
Projet régional de marquage de thon (Added : 03/02/2006)
In a press conference held by the Regional Tuna Tagging Project ... the RTTP-IO, she said it's a project from the European Developments fund... the project in question consisit in tagging tuna from the Indian ...