The Marshall Islands capital atoll of Majuro is the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port, a fisheries-related workshop was told this week in Majuro.
As much as 600,000 tons of tuna is now being off-loaded from purse seine fishing boats to carrier vessels a year, Parties to the Nauru Agreement or PNA commercial manager Maurice Brownjohn told a tuna canning training in Majuro earlier this week.
About 1.7 million tons of skipjack tuna is caught in PNA waters annual