Leading up to next year’s annual meeting, Thai Union invites its shareholders to submit agenda points and nominate a new Director for its Nomination, Remuneration, and Corporate Governance Committee to replace Kraisorn Chansiri. He had to resign after he was sanctioned for insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Shareholders can submit their candidates and items for the agenda from September 1 to January 6 using the appropriate forms. The Thai Union Group in this way values the rights of the investors and supports their involvement according to its Good Corporate Governance.

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has allocated 1,500 M/T of bigeye for American Samoan longliners. The arrangement supports the long-term sustainability of resources in the US Pacific Islands and fisheries development in American Samoa. The quota was published by NOAA on August 28.

The NMFS attributed the bigeye caught by US vessels in the WCPFC region to American Samoa on August 25, 2022. Due to overfishing in 2021 by 196 M/T, the limit for longline bigeye for the US fleet was set at 3,358 M/T for 2022. About nine percent of that quota is still left for this year. The fishery limit is forecasted to be reached by September 1.

The Maldivian government is working on a system to keep a permanent record of all fishermen in the country. The registration of the people whose main income comes from fishing for skipjack by pole-and-line, yellowfin by hand line, and grouper, has already begun. So far, more than 10,000 fishers have been listed, out of an estimated 17,000 to 18,000 in the country.

The Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and Agriculture said the operation is part of its work to develop the sector. It is working with the island councils to receive the information on local small-scale fishermen catching in the atolls. The system will provide an online portal where all information will be accessible.