The WCPO Tuna MSC Alignment Group has sent a letter to its members and other stakeholders advising them to send a template letter to their MSC-accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) to...
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MSC: UK’s Waitrose A Leading Example On Sustainable Tuna
Waitrose & Partners is celebrating ten years of selling MSC pole-and-line caught skipjack and albacore in its own-label range. In 2009, the company...
Spanish Explanations On Indian Ocean Overfishing “Misleading”
The Chairman of the Seychelles Fishing Authority and CEO of environmental non-profit Nature Seychelles, Nirmal Jivan Shah, has been speaking out about the irregularities and...
How Are V-patterns Formed In Tuna Meat
Have you wondered why tuna meat shows V-patterns? Researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) have investigated how these...
Notorious Military Contractor Wants To Run 24 Ematum Longliners
Hong Kong-registered Frontier Services Group (FSG) interest in doing business in Mozambique is deteriorating. As of now, the only deal standing is the FSG’s owner's attempt to set up a tuna...
Delay In WCPFC Harvest Strategies A Detriment To MSC Fisheries?
The 16th Session of WCPFC ended last week without having drawn clear strategies on Harvest Control Rules (HCRs) or Target Reference Points (TRPs) for the various tuna stocks such as...
PNG Industry Still Unsure About MSC Certification On FADs
During the process of working to obtain an MSC certification, the PNG Fishing Industry Association’s purse seine Skipjack & Yellowfin Tuna Fishery faces an extension...
Tri Marine Earns Multi-Gear MSC Certification In Solomon Islands
Tri Marine has achieved an MSC certification for longline caught albacore and yellowfin from the Solomon Islands. This adds to the company’s existing certifications for...
Bumble Bee Aids Buyers By Extending Bid Period
Bumble Bee's Chapter 11 sales plan has been approved by the US Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware after the seafood company that went belly up in...
Poor Training & Oversight Caused Sinking Of US Seiner
A year after the purse seiner ‘Jeanette’ caught fire and sank in American Samoa’s waters, an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that the...
Hull Coating For Vessels Inspired By Tuna Skin Wins Award
A specially formulated hydrogel for boats that mimics the behavior of the mucous layer of a tuna’s skin has won the 2020 Japanese Government Award for Global Warming Prevention Activity. This...
EU-Gambia Fisheries Agreement Finally Put Into Effect
With a majority of 478 votes, the new six-year Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Gambia was approved by the Europian Parliament on...
High Albacore Price To Affect Bumble Bee’s Future?
The exorbitant value of albacore could spell trouble for the world's major player in this segment -- Bumble Bee. The US is the world’s largest market...
One Single Jar Triggers Heinz Tuna Baby Food Recall
The leading market share retailer in the UK, Tesco, issued a recall of thousands of baby food jars after sharp metal pieces were found in one single jar. The voluntary recall...
Low Year-End Skipjack Trading Activity In Bangkok
With the year nearing an end and the holiday season approaching, business in the Bangkok skipjack market seems to have hit the pause button as currently there is very little trading...
Charlie The Tuna Gets Its Own Pop! Figurine
Charlie the Tuna, StarKist’s brand ambassador, has cemented his place in American pop culture by having his own Funko’s Pop! Vinyl figurine. The limited-edition item will...
IATTC’s President, Alfonso Miranda – Chair Of AMAtuna2020
Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, who was recently elected President of IATTC and is also President of the Peruvian Chamber of Tuna (CPA), will chair the Americas Tuna...
Dongwon Adopts Pengsoo, The YouTube Penguin
The adorable Korean penguin Pengsoo is a hit on YouTube but is also a perfect advertisement model as it is being chased by marketers to promote their food products. At a recent...
US Turning Blind Eye On Human Rights Perpetrators In High Seas
A letter signed by 24 organizations asking to hold accountable distant water fishing nations that use forced labor to catch seafood in high seas was sent to Marcia...
Has The Albacore Price Hit The Roof?
Albacore prices have been steadily rising over the past few years and in 2019, it seems to have gone through the roof. A source for Atuna said that currently, the value of...
