The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has harsh words about a program that aired on June 2 and “a scary narrative about protecting people from mercury in canned tuna.” NFI also called into...
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Alliance Select Holds Hope For Turnaround, Q1 Disappoints
After massive losses reported for 2022, Philippines tuna processor Alliance Select Foods International expects a turnaround this year. However, the outlook is poor as it closed the first three...
Salary Conflict Of African Crew On EU Seiners Not Yet Resolved
In the first week of June, the African crew members of French and Spanish purse seiners went on a four-day strike for higher wages. Three unions representing the Senegalese and Ivorian fishers...
NOAA Ignores NGOs Demand To Ban Ecuadorian Yellowfin, Grants Market Access
The Ecuadorian tuna sector has reasons to rejoice as the US has given permission to continue the import of its yellowfin products. This is despite a group of US NGOs, after studies, concluding...
Maldives Making Headway On EU Free Trade Deal
The government of the Maldives is adamant about getting its tuna products into the EU duty-free. Last week, officials from the island nation were in Brussels discussing concrete steps that...
FiTI Lauds Mauritanian Efforts Towards Transparency In Tuna Fisheries
The International Board of the Fisheries Transparent Initiative (FiTI) recently concluded that Mauritania, in whose EEZ EU seiners catch large amounts of tuna, has made meaningful progress in...
Registration Is Open For The Eighth Pacific Tuna Forum
Tuna stakeholders will gather in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on September 6 and 7 for the 8th Pacific Tuna Forum (PTF) to meet and network on matters concerning Pacific tuna and WCPO...
US Sentences Mexican Tuna Businessman To 13 Years In Prison
A 61-year-old Mexican businessman Jamie Antonio Mandujano Eudave, who carried out illegal activities under his fake tuna company ‘Atuneros Unidos de California’, was sentenced to 13 years in...
Walmart Pledges Enhanced Transparency In Tuna Sourcing Policy
Walmart and its club store arm, Sam's Club, announced stronger standards aimed at improving transparency and data gathering in the tuna supply chain by 2027, especially that of albacore from...
NGOs: US Fails To Downgrade Taiwan In TIP Report
Taiwan has once again gained a top position in the US Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report published on June 15. This has raised the ire of several US and Asian NGOs which had been calling for...
Dongwon Buyers Get Less Tuna For The Same Price
Dongwon Food & Beverage announced that the can of ‘Dongwon Tuna Light’ sold in South Korean convenience stores will be reduced from 100 g to 90 g net weight, but the price will remain the...
MSC Disappointed With On The Hook Standard Review
After a year of review, the UK-based On the Hook published its review of the Marine Fisheries Council (MSC) on Wednesday saying that “any company considered the ‘gold standard’ should do its...
Anfaco Says Competitive Equilibrium In EU Tuna Sector Needs Rethinking
The declining canned tuna consumption in Spain and Europe’s talks with Thailand are worrying Roberto Alonso, and he wants a “level playing field” for the tuna canning sector. A man who wears...
Bigeye Longline Catch Limits Set For US Pacific Territories
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has allocated bigeye catch limits to longliners in US Pacific territories. The council recommended setting the 2023 catch limits at 2,000 M/T in...
Indian Ocean Bigeye Associate Longest With DFADs
Using acoustic telemetry, scientists have calculated the associative behavior of tagged skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye with drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) in two regions of the...
Italian Police Search In The Dark As Bluefins Are Dumped On Roadsides
The rising number of discarded bluefins on Italian roadsides is putting officials in a tight spot. The tuna, likely from illegal catches and thrown away by perpetrators while trying to escape...
Decline In WCPO Yellowfin Bycatch Plunges Q1 Thai Imports
Thai canners imported one-third less unsorted yellowfin raw material in the first quarter of the year and the total business amounted to USD 43.29 million. The large drop was caused by lower...
Green Light For Mauritius’ Multi-Million Dollar Tuna Deal With EU
The European Parliament (EP) is set to approve a new fisheries agreement with Mauritius that allows its fleet to fish in Mauritian waters. A majority of members of the EP voted in favor of the...
Bumble Bee Bets On New MSC Line Of Yellowfin And Albacore Products
Bumble Bee is expanding its premium range of yellowfin cans and pouches with new flavors under the Prime line and is also introducing MSC tuna to several items. It has launched 12 new...
NIRSA Equips Old Seiner With State-Of-The-Art Bearings
The 1973-built purse seiner ‘El Marquez’ fishing for the vertically-integrated Ecuadorian company, NIRSA, was recently upgraded. It was equipped with polymer propeller shaft seals and...
