Several Kenyan crew members have alleged abusive working conditions on board Chinese-owned fishing vessels operating in the Indian Ocean. This was revealed during the Senate’s Labor and Social...
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Dongwon Group Diversifying From Fish To Livestock
The Dongwon Group is diversifying its business from fishery to meat. It recently carried out an organizational restructuring by establishing a livestock division under its subsidiary Dongwon...
EU & Japan Say No To Special Session On DFADs Reduction Proposal
The issue over a major drifting FADs (dFADs) proposal submitted by Kenya that was laid out during the IOTC annual meeting in June has not been resolved. The recommendation pushed for an...
Japan’s Skipjack Imports Crash, Indonesia Suffers Most
Sales of frozen whole round tuna to Japan have taken a big hit in the first half of the year (H1). Imports reached the lowest level in at least the last five years, pushed by the lack of...
Conxemar Starts In Spain, Brings Industry Face-To-Face
Today, one of the biggest seafood trade shows kicks off in Spain. The first in-person event since the pandemic took the world by storm. Conxemar opened its doors to wholesalers, importers,...
John West’s 2020 Turnover Sees Slight Hike Despite Pandemic Sales
Despite 2020 being a year when pandemic-induced hoarding of shelf-stable products took place, canned tuna and seafood company, John West Foods, experienced only a slight increase in its...
Little Investor Confidence In Sapmer’s Reorganization
After a dramatic loss of EUR 24.5 (USD 28.4) million, a financial debt of EUR 130.9 (USD 151.9) million, and a 32 percent reduction in revenue in 2020, French fishing company, Sapmer, had to...
Women Crew To Be Added To Fiji Longliners?
Fiji is making efforts to include women in more areas of the tuna sector and this includes fishing jobs on longliners. However, there is “gender blindness” in the longline fishing industry,...
PEW: RFMO Negotiations Dominated By “A Small But Powerful Few”
The traditional management approach used in RFMOs of lengthy negotiation has contributed to overfishing and depletion of species. This is according to Pew, who says that often during RFMO...
Spanish FAD Fleet Increasing Use Of Smart Buoys
The long-distance Spanish purse seine tuna fleet has been increasingly replacing traditional buoys with smart ones. This is according to a study carried out by technology company Satlink,...
FAD Ban Transshipment Volumes Hit Peak
Transshipments during the FAD ban period rose in August this year to the highest level of the past two years in the same period. Data from the PNA region shows that transshipment volumes in...
Tuna Loses Crown In British Market After Temporary Reign
Retail sales of tuna in the UK dropped slightly during the first half of the year. In 2020, panic buying of canned products pushed tuna temporarily to the top as the most popular seafood....
StarKist Demands Info On Judge’s Family Stock Holdings In Price Fixing Case
The multi-district litigation (MDL) for price-fixing against StarKist and its parent company Dongwon Industries has taken an interesting turn. The tuna firms have asked the Southern...
Major Global Tuna Highlights September
September was a volatile month for the global tuna industry. The price of skipjack in trading hubs fell while the latest report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)...
Skipjack Catches Reach Year’s Lowest Point In WCPO
Out of the ordinary yellowfin catches in the WCPO guided the total catches in August to a month-on-month increase, despite the skipjack catch rate reaching its lowest level in over a year....
How Much Will Peak Fuel Costs Affect Skipjack Rates?
Global crude oil prices are at an all-time high given the demand from oil guzzling nations outstripping supply. This has pushed marine fuel prices even further up with tuna purse seiner owners...
Sapmer Downsizes, Two Seiners Sold & Another On The Market
The French tuna fishing company, Sapmer, announced today that it has sold two of its purse seiners operating in the Indian Ocean (IO). A third vessel is currently on the market although there...
Accidental Massive Tuna Donated To US Soup Kitchen
A soup kitchen in Belfast, Maine, (USA) was very happy after it received a donation of hundreds of kilograms of tuna meat from a local fishing crew after they caught a massive 600 pound...
Thai Union Announces New Joint Venture Co. For Product Packaging
Thai Union's (TU) printing and packing subsidiary, Thai Union Graphic Co. Ltd (TUG), has entered into a joint investment with Starflex Public Company Limited (SFLEX), an industry leader in...
More Companies Follow Vegan Trend With Tuna Substitutes
Several companies have jumped onto the bandwagon of offering tuna and other seafood based on plant ingredients. There is an increasing number of ‘ocean-friendly’ food options and tuna seems to...
