After being lauded by Greenpeace International yesterday on its FAD-free commitment, Bolton released a 3 page letter with an ambitious statement asserting that the company, with its leading...
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Indonesia’s First MSC Pole And Line Fishery To Be Certified
An Indonesian yellowfin and skipjack fishery just off the coast of Sorong is expected to be granted MSC certification within the coming weeks, following a promising...
Chilean Navy Operation Against Asian Fleet Targeting Albacore
The Chilean armada has commissioned a navy patrol ship, the OPV-82 “Comandante Toro”, in its heightened efforts to supervise the fishing of tuna and...
Balfego Wants “Any Temptation” To Trade Illegally Removed
Establishing "effective and exemplary" control measures that eradicate "any temptation" to illegally trade tuna is what the Balfegó group is advocating. The Catalan tuna firm...
10 Ways To Fight Slave Labor And Illegal Fishing
“Out of the Shadows” spotlights several glaring shortfalls on regulation in the global fishing industry, published by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) last Tuesday. In the...
Spanish Police Stops Van With Illegal Tuna
Spain’s Guardia Civil intercepted a non-isothermal vehicle along the Port of Tarifa, which contained 17 specimens of bluefin tuna without legal documentation. From a vantage point along a...
Spain Compensates Seiner Owners For Losses
Owners of seiners, pole and line vessels and artisanal fishers affected by the temporary cessation of the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement (SFPA) between the European Union and the...
Bolton Receives Praise From Greenpeace On FAD-Free Commitment
Following years of pressure by Greenpeace activists and their supporters across the globe, the organization now reports that Bolton Alimentari has announced a new far reaching policy designed...
WWF “Most Concerned” Over Echebastar MSC Certification
In a press release, WWF expresses that it is "most concerned" about the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Echebastar Indian Ocean skipjack tuna purse seine fishery, which...
ISSF Rates Indian Ocean FAD Management As Ineffective
In the recently updated RFMO Best Practices Snapshot – 2018, the tuna industry sustainability foundation ISSF rates the existing FAD management actions of all major RFMO’s. The press release...
Echebastar IO Skipjack Fishery Gains MSC Certification
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has just announced its certification of the Echebastar purse seine skipjack tuna fishery in the Indian Ocean, after a long and disputed process, which had...
Tri Marine Sells Its Californian Terminal Island Processing Plant
Tri Marine Group has closed a deal on the sale of its San Pedro coastal processing plant in Los Angeles, California to Alaskan processor Silver Bay Seafoods LLC. The harbor front unloading...
Former Bumble Bee COO Now Focuses On Plant-Based Tuna Alternative
Doug Hines, has taken an alternative approach to bringing tuna to the masses- in his latest venture introducing plant-based "tuna". Until recently he had been an investor in South Pacific Tuna...
Trump Appoints Former Monsanto Exec To Head Fisheries Service
President Donald Trump has nominated a former executive of pesticide and agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto, Aurelia Skipwith, as head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Skipwith will...
Large Pacific Bluefin Return To California Coast After 80-Year Hiatus
San Diego reports have identified an upturn in the population of large Pacific bluefin in Californian waters, attributing the comeback of one of the ocean’s priciest and most sought-after fish...
US South Pacific Albacore Fishery Recertified By MSC
The US South Pacific fishery for albacore tuna has been recertified to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards, with certifications valid until 2023, announced the MSC last Tuesday, October...
Activists Call Out High Stakes For Albatross In Bluefin Longlining
Animal rights organization The Humane Society International spoke out yesterday against measures taken up at last week’s meeting of Australia-based Commission for the Conservation of Southern...
IN BRIEF: Turkish Bluefin For Japanese Sushi
Turkey reached a turnover of USD 56.6 million with its exports of farmed bluefin tuna raised in the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts during the first nine months of this year, according to...
IN BRIEF: NZ Patrol Finds No IUU In Tokelau EEZ
No IUU offenses were detected by the New Zealand Defense Force during recent maritime patrols and inspection of 10 vessels in the EEZ of Tokelau and Samoa. The patrols are assisting the...
Strikes Hit Spanish Seafood Sector
Spanish unions in the seafood sector went on strike this week, accounting for 75 percent of unemployment in the country. In Galicia, where most of the seafood companies are...
