The 2025 Canary Islands bluefin fishing season will begin today, nine days earlier than what was allowed last year. In total, 250 vessels can catch 537.69 tons of fish. The decision was made...
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Anfaco And Galicia Kick-Start Mission To Promote Tuna Consumption
Spanish canners association Anfaco has partnered with the Galician administration to promote the consumption of canned tuna and other seafood, especially among young Spaniards. Anfaco and the...
SPC Asks Tuna Fleets For Help With New DFAD Monitoring Project
The Pacific Community (SPC) scientists are involved in a new project that will monitor dFADs drifting outside fishing grounds in the WCPO and EPO. They have called on fishing companies for a...
CFTO Sold Three IO Seiners To Omani Firm
Compagnie Française du Thon Océanique (CFTO) sold three modern purse seiners ‘Drennec’, ‘Glenan’, and ‘Trevignon’ to Omani company Rawanq Al Salam International. CFTO reduced its IO fleet to...
Dongwon Industries’ New Corporate Bonds Snapped Up
This week, South Korean conglomerate Dongwon Industries successfully issued corporate bonds worth KRW 200 billion (USD 137.21 million). The funds raised from this financial move will be used...
Seiner Skipjack Catches In Kiribati Waters Hit Five-Year-Peak In 2023
Kiribati's strong purse seine and longliner fleets have been showing stable growth over the years. The volumes of tuna captured by seiners reached a five-year peak in 2023. Fishing agreements...
Indonesia First Country To Adopt GDST Traceability Standard
Indonesia is taking a step forward to improve the ocean to plate traceability of its multi-million worth tuna sector. The Asian nation has upgraded its national seafood traceability system,...
Portuguese Autonomous Regions’ Tuna Boats Get Quota For 2025
The Portuguese autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores entered into a new agreement recently which allows their vessels to catch 110 tons of bigeye (per boat) annually. This was published in...
Orthongel Announces New French AFNOR Responsible Fishing Standard
Orthongel, the group representing the French tuna seiner fleet, in collaboration with the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), has published a new responsible fishing standard....
600-Pound Tuna Can Reeled In From Ocean & Other Social Media Stories
A US news site took a hilarious dig at the annual Toyosu bluefin auction market. An Italian chef's tuna recipe has a lot of fans on Instagram. US content creator urged fans to think big this...
Thai Canners Cut Back On Yellowfin Whole Round Imports In Q1-Q3
Thai processors reduced their overall yellowfin whole rounds buying from January to September 2024 despite some major producers increasing their business. The average value of the raw material...
Malaysia’s Slow Growing Tuna Sector Mainly Boasts Of Neritic Tuna Landings
Malaysian-flagged vessels mainly catch neritic tuna than oceanic tuna in the Indian Ocean. This fleet is small compared to its Southeast Asian counterparts. Small purse seiners and trawlers...
Chris Lischewski To Head US Golding Farm Foods
Chris Lischewski, former CEO of Bumble Bee Seafoods, has been appointed as President of Golding Farm Foods. Established in 1972 in North Carolina, the company offers a variety of consumer and...
EU’s New Rule On Listeria In Ready-Made Foods Upsets Producers
The European Commission has updated its rules on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods, putting the onus on producers who need to ensure that their products are not contaminated...
Spanish Processors Imported 5-Year High Pre-Cooked Loins Volumes
Spanish processors increased their imports of frozen pre-cooked loins from January to September 2024. Many of the major non-EU suppliers managed to increase their business in this market. From...
Mystery Over Missing Fishers From Colombian Seiner ‘Patricia Lynn’ Continues
The lack of information around the Colombian-flagged seiner 'Patricia Lynn' which sunk on December 21 is putting government officials on a tough spot. The Ecuadorian Navy has not been able to...
Balfegó All Set To Open Doors Of New Tuna Plant
Spanish bluefin company Grupo Balfegó will open a new plant next month in Tarragona to replace the one destroyed in the 2018 fire. Company executives announced that the factory would be three...
Ricardo Fuentes’ New Freezing Vessel Begins Full-Fledged Operations
Spanish bluefin company Ricardo Fuentes-owned ultra-low temperature (ULT) vessel ‘Madre Antonia’ made its first call at the port in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria earlier this week. The vessel...
MIMRA & PIT Claim To Make Very Good Biz From US Walmart Contract
Glen Joseph, Director of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) recently said that the volume of tuna provided through the Pacific Islands Tuna (PIT) has increased...
Anfaco Demands Higher ATQ Loins For EU Canners
Frozen pre-cooked tuna loins that can be imported duty-free into the EU under the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) were once again snapped in their initial allocation by the European Commission...
