As most European countries are currently being hit by a surge in COVID-19 cases, Diversified Communications has announced that the 2022 edition of Seafood Expo Global is moving forward in...
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Slight Improvement After Collapse In PNA Zone Catches
Despite being able to set on FADs again, WCPO purse seiners’ October catches remained low, although this was a slight improvement compared to September's tonnage. Higher amounts of baby...
World’s Largest MSC Certification Delayed Over HCRs & FAD Objections
The process to get the FAD catches of the world’s largest MSC tuna fishery certified has been delayed at its last stage as it was just slapped with an official objection. The latest MSC update...
StarKist Samoa Increases Workers, Building Towards Full Capacity
StarKist Samoa finally has sufficient employees to start a second shift, after months of labor shortages. The cannery has been running only on one shift since June but this week it started a...
Critics Say Kiribati’s Move To Open PIPA Will Not Generate Income
Kiribati’s government’s move to open the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) for commercial fishing has not gone down well with several parties, with critics arguing that it will not...
Bumble Bee Gets New Vice President Of Sales
The American canned tuna firm, Bumble Bee, has appointed a new Vice President of Sales. Laura Chamberlain, who has more than 25 years of experience across premier consumer packaged goods sales...
Tuna Outperforms Salmon As Europeans’ Favourite Seafood
Europeans seemed to have feasted on canned tuna in 2019 with the highest level of per capita consumption ever recorded, according to the latest findings by an EU data agency. This means that...
EU Planning Import Ban On Non-Sustainable Land Products, Is Seafood Next?
The EU has recently announced its plans to ban all imports of land-based agriculture products that are linked to deforestation. The sustainable forward move shows a strong commitment by the...
ICCAT Meeting Concludes With Relaxed Bigeye Measures
The ICCAT annual meeting ended on Tuesday after over a week of discussions. The RFMO seems to have taken a step backward when it comes to conservation of the Atlantic bigeye stock but made...
Philippine’s Pouched Tuna Thriving In The US
The demand for pouched tuna in America has been stabilizing after a fall in imports last year when the foodservice sector was temporarily shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Imports of...
Alliance Select Foods Sells Investment To Cover Losses
Philippine-based tuna processor, Alliance Select Foods International Inc (ASFII), has sold its 80 percent investment in the farmed salmon company, Akaroa Salmon New Zealand. The company stated...
Malaysia Wants More Boat Owners To Apply For Tuna Permits
The Malaysian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (MAFI) wants the country to take the opportunity as a member of the IOTC to send more vessels to catch tuna in the Indian Ocean (IO)....
Taiwan To Fight Forced Labor With CCTV, Is It Enough?
A new program has been initiated in Taiwan to fight and put a stop to labor abuses on board tuna fishing vessels. It is a trial that will bring electronic monitoring to the boats developed by...
Engineer Testifies That Mozambique Tuna Vessels Had Serious Defects
An experienced naval engineering inspector, Abilio Tomé, said in court that the longline vessels belonging to the Mozambique Tuna Company (EMATUM) were found to have defects and many of them...
Forced Early Christmas Break Drives Seychelles Skipjack Pricing
Tuna catching activity in the Indian Ocean (IO) has almost ceased for 2021. Only a few seiners flagged to France, Spain, and Seychelles are still operating and they are expected to stop...
US & China Fighting Over Forced Labor Issues In WTO
US and China are once again at each other’s throats regarding forced labor issues as interim talks are taking place in the World Trade Organization (WTO) over harmful fishing subsidies. Given...
American Canned Tuna Producers Buying Less Pre-Cooked Loins
American tuna production has slowed down compared to last year and it has gone back to approximately the same level as in 2019, before the start of the pandemic. This is visible in the US...
StarKist Guilty Plea Not Enough To Show Damages In Civil Case
A Californian federal judge has ruled that StarKist’s guilty plea in criminal proceedings against the company for fixing canned tuna prices show that it did participate in the conspiracy but...
Time Magazine Selects Plant-Based Tuna Among 2021 Best Inventions
Time Magazine US has put the plant-based tuna alternative created by Kuleana in its 'Best Inventions of 2021’ list. According to the magazine, the product deserves the mention because of its...
All The Things We Did Not Know About The Spanish Tuna Powerhouse
Unlike what has been assumed by many that Spain has had a buoyant tuna sector throughout most of the 20th century, recent in-depth research into its evolution has shown that this was far from...
