StarKist American Samoa started production on Monday, the first day of operations for this year. According to a cannery official, there was a high turnout for work with 90 percent of employees...
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Stable IO Skipjack Catches Hardly Impacted Price
Low catch volumes and small-sized skipjack marked the start of the new year for the purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean, no change from the situation last year. After activities slowed down...
Biden Axes US Offshore Drilling Plans To Protect Tuna & Other Marine Life
US President Joe Biden is taking action to protect over 625 million acres of the nation’s waters from offshore drilling. The White House announced earlier this week that future oil and natural...
Will EU-Thailand FTA Talks Suffer From Reformed Thai Fisheries Act?
Thailand’s 2015 Fisheries Act is close to being amended which European tuna organizations say will lower the standards on labor rights in processing companies and weaken combating IUU fishing....
Women Entrepreneurs Come Together To Promote Gender Parity In Seafood Sector
An event that kick-started in Mexico earlier this week has brought together women entrepreneurs, who run various tuna and seafood businesses to discuss how to grow the sector together. The...
Indonesian IO Tuna Catches Reached Peak In 2023
The volume of tuna caught by Indonesian-flagged vessels in the Indian Ocean (IO) in 2023 hit record in over 70 years. Skipjack was the main catch followed by yellowfin, bigeye, and albacore....
Tuna Or Deep-Sea Mining? Choose tuna
-VIEWPOINT- The nascent deep-sea mining industry shares notable similarities with the tuna industry: both rely on extracting natural resources (copper, nickel, cobalt, and other metals needed...
IOTC Raises 2025 Yellowfin Quotas By Small Margin
The IOTC has slightly increased the volumes of yellowfin that fishing fleets can catch in the Indian Ocean for 2025. This news comes on the heels that the scientists declared that IO yellowfin...
Anfaco Warns Why Reformed Thai Fisheries Act Could Allow IUU Tuna To Enter EU Market
Thailand’s House of Representatives approved a major package of amendments to the country’s 2015 Fisheries Act on December 25. The country’s Senate has yet to ratify the reforms. Spanish...
Chances Of High Tuna Catches In Pacific Ocean In 2025 Are Slim
Purse seine owners operating their vessels in the EPO and WCPO clearly benefited from the high skipjack catches in these regions last year. This also helped boost the business of Thai and...
Chicken Of The Sea Steps Into 2025 With Launch Of Two New Products
Chicken of the Sea launched two new products this week in collaboration with the US seasoning companies Old Bay and McCormick. Wild Caught Light Tuna Packet with Old Bay Seasoning and Wild...
Dongwon’s New Executives For 2025 Take Office
South Korean Dongwon Group recently announced the appointment of several new top executives for 2025. Park Moon-seo who was the CEO of the holding company has been chosen as the Vice-Chairman...
Indonesia Establishes Stricter Rules For Tuna & Other Fishers’ Qualifications
The Indonesian government is acting to ensure that tuna and other seafood fishing crews on Indonesian-flagged small and industrial vessels have adequate expertise in their job and are...
First Bluefin Raises Record Amount At Toyosu Auction
The traditional first bluefin auction on January 5 began early in the morning and the 276-kg fish caught off the coast of Oma in Aomori Prefecture was sold for JPY 207 million (USD1.32...
China Reaped Benefits In Pre-Cooked Loins Trade With EU Canners In Q3 2024
EU canners’ demand for frozen pre-cooked loins rose in the first nine months of 2024. Chinese processors' business thrived during this period. Usually, they sell their products in Q1 when...
EU Alerts Show Four Tuna-Related Incidents Last Month
The EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) listed four tuna-related incidents in December due to different health threats. Belgian authorities entered an alert into the EU system on...
Tuna Fishing Crew Safety A Priority For Vietnamese Govt
Vietnam wants to ensure the safety of its fishers working on tuna and other seafood vessels by introducing new rules and regulations. The government asserted that several shortcomings need to...
Canada Recalls Century Tuna Product
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced last month that Century Tuna’s Flaked Light Tuna Hot & Spicy Style (180 g) has been recalled due to undeclared gluten on its label. The...
NOAA Proposes New US Pacific Bluefin Quota In EPO
NOAA has announced new regulations for the Pacific bluefin according to the latest conservation measure adopted by the IATTC in September. The proposed rule would implement annual and trip...
North Pacific Albacore Catches In 2023 Hit Decade-Low
The albacore stock in the North Pacific Ocean (NPO) is healthy but catches hit a 10-year low in 2023, the International Scientific Committee (ISC) recently said. The drop in landings by the US...
