Thai processors purchased more frozen whole round skipjack in 2022, which comprised 79 percent of their total raw material imports. Tuvalu entered the list of the top suppliers of Katsuwonus...
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Mexican Fishermen Say Low Tuna Catches Are Worrisome
The fishing industry at the Mexican port city of Tuxpan is stumbling in the dark as its lucrative tuna catches have dropped. Tuxpan holds 90 percent of the tuna fishing fleet in the Gulf of...
John Burton Factor An Issue For EU Seiner Fleet?
The IOTC Special Session on FAD management is about to kick off later this week in Kenya and much controversy has been raised by stakeholders from all sides clamoring to have their positions...
Major Global Highlights January 2023
There was a lot of impactful news within the global tuna sector in January. From Mitsibushi being rumored to sell Princes Foods to the EU seiner fleet coming under a lot of pressure from...
PNA Transshipments Remained Stable, Arriving In Low-Demand Bangkok
The WCPO transshipments of tuna in November remained more or less the same as in the previous month despite the lower catch rate per day. Ports in PNG and Micronesia operated the largest...
Dongwon’s LEGO Tuna Commercial And Other Social Media Trends
Korean YouTuber Tomohiro Okazaki – who appears under the pseudonym ‘I Like Home’ – has a passion for cooking and LEGO. Okazaki posted a professional video of him cutting a 1.70-meter-long LEGO...
Research Reveals Tuna’s Omega-3 Helps Reduce Risk Of Chronic Kidney Disease
Omega-3 fatty acids have multiple benefits for the body. A recently published study underlines the importance of 'fatty acids' in reducing the risk of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Current...
Albacora’s Founder Receives Bermeo’s Posthumous Award
The contributions of Iñaki Latxaga – founder of Albacora S.A – Europe’s largest purse seine operator – have been vital for the EU tuna industry. Latxaga, who passed away last month at age 84...
EU Seiner Fleets’ Fishing Activities 100% Observed
Compliance with fishing regulations is essential for tuna fleets across the globe. All Spanish and French purse seiners have onboard observers or an electronic monitoring system in line with...
Thai Processors Bought USD 1.3 Billion Worth Of Frozen Whole Rounds
Despite a major price rise for frozen whole round tuna from global fleets, processors in Thailand slightly increased their raw material inventories in 2022. The total value of imports of all...
New Deal Inked To Escalate Bina Harbor Tuna Project
The much-anticipated Bina Harbor tuna plant in Solomon Islands – the nation’s second processing unit – is progressing despite years of delay. Aotearoa New Zealand and program management...
Will There Be A 3-Mth FAD Ban In The IO?
The upcoming IOTC Special Session in Kenya scheduled between February 3 to 5 will focus primarily on FAD management measures. No consensus was reached during the last annual meeting on...
Port Lincoln’s Annual Tunarama Festival Back After 2 Years
The annual two-day Tunarama festival – held at Port Lincoln in Australia – concluded on Saturday. Tunarama, which began on January 26, was back in full swing after a two-year break due to the...
Nostromo Embracing Digital Marketing Grows Its Business
Italian brand Nostromo – owned by Grupo Calvo – is stepping up its marketing techniques. It has partnered with tech company ShopFully to use Hyperlocal Intelligence (HI) – a form of artificial...
Seychelles Gears Up For Second Coastline FAD Retrieval Mission
Seychelles is accelerating its course of action to clear FADs washing up on its reefs, lagoons, and coastlines. After a successful ten-day clean-up event last October, the Seychelles...
Higher WCPO Fishing Effort Not Translated Into Higher Catches
The increase in total purse seine fishing effort in the WCPO continued in November, reaching the highest level of 2022. However, the result of their activities fell slightly by three percent...
Readers Believe SIMP Changes To Likely Affect US Chunk Light Trade
Earlier this month, US fisheries officials announced the expansion of the number of species that will fall under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP). Imports of tuna-like...
Irish Displeasure With Foreigners Fishing Tuna In Its Waters Grows
Irish fishermen cannot catch Atlantic bluefin in the country's EEZ because no quota has been allocated under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Meanwhile, fleets from its...
Updated Maruha Nichiro Blue Bond Does Not Exclude Tuna Fishing
Seafood giant and trader, Maruha Nichiro Co. has updated its Blue Finance Framework first launched in September 2022 for the first Japanese Blue Bond. The adjusted framework includes natural...
Majuro Expects A Rebound In Skipjack Transshipments
Fisheries data shows that tuna transshipments in Majuro port in the Marshall Islands have been rebounding since transfer operations plummeted in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Officials are...
