The quest to extend Fiji Fishing Industry Association MSC Group’s sustainable certification has been greenlighted by Lloyd’s Register, the third-party assessment body overseeing the case. The...
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H1 Imports: Spanish Canners Still Hooked On Cheap Chinese Loins
Tuna pre-cooked loins buyers in Spain have been steadily increasing their intake and this past half-year they purchased record-level volumes. One Asian origin, marked as controversial by...
High Court Rejects Calvo’s Appeal For €6.5 Million Penalty
The Spanish tuna corporation, Grupo Calvo, was trying to discard a Supreme Court’s decision against it in a dispute involving default interests on VAT tuna imports from El Salvador during...
Retailers’ Determination Crucial For MSC Tuna To Grow
Tuna may be the world’s most consumed wild-caught species, but it is still lagging behind in retail sales when it comes to MSC certified sustainable products. However, some experts in the...
John West UK Does Not Source IO Yellowfin
The John West brand has told Atuna that it does not source yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) for its products. Yesterday, another major UK brand, Princes, declared that it will reduce its...
US Captain Arrested In British Territory Cleared Of All Charges
The US Captain of the tuna longliner ‘Rebel Lady’ accused of illegally entering the British Virgin Islands (BVI) during the COVID-19 border closure period has been cleared of all charges. The...
Maldives P&L Fishery Reduced IO Yellowfin Catches
Maldives’ major seafood exports association has said that the country’s pole-and-line and handline fishery reduced its yellowfin catches by five times the IOTC requirement last year, just as...
Chinese Fishing Companies’ Investors Losing Money In Stock Market
In August, Chinese tuna vessel operator CNFC Overseas Fisheries reached its highest stock value since early 2018. However, the elevated level did not last long and had already started to...
Thai Packers Reconquer Swedish Business From Princes Mauritius
While neighboring Northern countries passively cut down their imports, Sweden displayed a significantly higher level of trading activity on canned tuna in the first half of 2020 (H1) compared...
Good Skipjack Catches Press Seychelles’ Price Down Fast
In the past month, the Indian Ocean seiners strongly increased their skipjack catches. After some earlier setbacks due to bad weather conditions and fishing stopping because of COVID-19...
New Initiative Wants Seafood Workers To Go And Vote
A new initiative looking to ensure that seafood workers have the time, information, and resources they need to vote has been launched by Future of Fish. The program, called Seafood Voting...
Balfegó Changes Business Plan Due To COVID-19
Many companies trading with fresh tuna have had to think on their feet and modify their business strategies because of the COVID-19 pandemic that almost completely killed the sector for a...
Princes Takes A Stand – Cuts 50% IO Yellowfin
UK-based international food and drinks group Princes is the latest to take a stand regarding the controversial overfished yellowfin issue in the Indian Ocean (IO). Today, the company announced...
New Law Cuts Indonesia’s Small Fishers’ Exclusive Subsidies
In Indonesia, small-scale pole-and-line and handline fisheries could have their subsidies snatched out of their hands by larger vessels after the country passed a new law. Since the bill was...
Bumble Bee Innovates Tuna Recipes With Foodbeast
Bumble Bee Seafoods is on a roll to win more consumers by giving Americans their favorite thing – innovative and delicious food. It has teamed up with leading US food news and media website,...
Maldivian Handline Vessel Busted With 130 Kilos Of Drugs
In the Maldives, a handline vessel normally used to target yellowfin was found with 130 kg of drugs. The boat was intercepted at sea by the country’s Police Service during an operation that...
Weather & COVID-19 Bash US Albacore Fishing Season
This year's albacore fishing season in the US has been one of the worst ever. Several local industry players are blaming the COVID-19 pandemic and dreadful weather conditions for this problem....
INFOFISH Webinar: Clock Is Ticking For Tuna Stocks
Today, the Tuna 2021 Virtual Prelude organized by INFOFISH took place with moderator Dr. Audun Lem, Deputy Director of FAO Italy. The interesting line-up of nine speakers, all experts in their...
Guatemala Introduces Tuna Safety Standards
The Central American country of Guatemala has put into place health and sanitary standards similar to those in the EU in order to monitor that tuna products do not present a threat to...
Canary Islands Fishers Worried Over Moroccan Waters Catches
Tuna fishermen in Lanzarote in Canary Islands are puzzled over their daily catches being recorded electronically as being fished from the waters of Morocco when it is not the case. This week,...
