Spanish bluefin fattening farmer Ricardo Fuentes recently signed an agreement to purchase land in the 'Fadricas II' industrial park in San Fernando, Spain, to build a processing and logistics...
Fishing
Greenpeace Flags Forced Labor In Indonesian Tuna Sold To Australian Brands
Several Indonesian-flagged tuna vessels are alleged to have engaged in onboard forced labor, and they supply fish to domestic companies that export to Australian firms. A report released today...
Vietnam Canned Tuna Export Value Takes Backseat
Vietnam’s canned tuna export value fell in 2025, compared to the previous year. Trade with the US, historically its top market, rose, but business with the EU dropped. Vietnam pointed out that...
OPAGAC Brings Virtual Tuna Fishing Experience To Spanish Cities
Spanish purse seiner organization OPAGAC converted a bus into a tuna boat to host an experience combining education and entertainment for people of all ages. The virtual tuna fishing vessel...
Major Global Highlights February 2026
The prices of skipjack raw material in major tuna processing hubs declined, except in Bangkok. The US Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s reciprocal tariffs were unlawful, to which the President...
Nirsa Seiner Catches Fire At Its Wharf
Ecuadorian-flagged purse seiner, ‘Maria Eulogia’, caught fire on Friday while it was moored at Nirsa’s dock in Guayaquil. Videos and photos of the vessel, engulfed in black smoke, were doing...
Indian Ocean Skipjack Price Keeps Falling Due To Lukewarm Demand
Tuna fishing in the Indian Ocean is not improving for purse seiners. Skipjack is caught at better sizes, though volumes are still below average, and yellowfin catches have significantly...
Venezuela’s Sucre State Begins Work To Revamp Its Tuna Industry
Venezuela has started work to strengthen its industrial tuna fishing sector, focusing on Cumaná, the capital of Sucre. A tuna seiner that recently docked at the port is preparing to supply...
Big Tunas: How They Help Store Carbon In The Ocean
-VIEWPOINT- When climate change and tuna enter the same conversation, the story is almost always about warming oceans, acidification, shifting prey, and moving stocks. Those risks are real,...
European Commission Opens ‘Call for Evidence’ To Shape Fisheries Future
The European Commission is seeking public consultation from fisheries stakeholders and citizens on the Vision 2040 for fisheries and aquaculture. A ‘Call for Evidence’ was published this week...
CLS Group Enters Talks To Acquire Ocean Measurement Firm
French CLS Group, an international provider of Earth and ocean observation and monitoring solutions, has entered into negotiations with Valemos and Geps Innov, shareholders of Akrocean, a...
EU Fisheries Committee Moves To Align RFMO Rules With EU Law
The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has agreed on a plan to bring RFMO-initiated tuna fishing rules into the EU law. The EU clarified that the move would improve legal clarity and...
FAIRR Flags Gaps Between Seafood Giants’ Traceability Promises And Action
Global investor network FAIRR-led investigation has revealed that there are notable gaps between tuna and seafood companies’ traceability commitments and their implementation strategies....
PNA Open Entries For World Tuna Day 2026
The Parties of Nauru Agreement (PNA) have called for entries to its World Tuna Day 2026 Competition, under the theme 'Sustaining Tuna, Sustaining Nations' for this year. “This year’s theme...
Azores Tuna Fishermen Cry Foul Over New Marine Protection Rules
Tuna fishermen in the Azores have voiced their concerns after the regional government reduced the area available for traditional pole-and-line fishing, following the creation of the Azores...
Argentina Accedes To Cape Town Agreement, Boosting Global Fisher Safety
After years of work, the Cape Town Agreement will come into force in February 2027, closing a longstanding gap in the global fishers’ safety framework. Argentina acceded to the Agreement on...
Pacific Tuna Fisheries Officials Discuss 2050 Strategy For Region
Key officials in the Pacific tuna fisheries management met this week at the FFA Development Partner Symposium in Suva, Fiji. Besides improving collective effort in sustainably managing tuna...
Final 5 Days For Early Bird Discount – Register Now For ETC2026
In one trip to Barcelona, you can combine two influential events: the European Tuna Conference on April 20, and the Seafood Expo Global from April 21 to 23. There are just five days left to...
Spain’s Fishery Inspectors Signal Fresh Protests Amid Stalled Talks
Spain’s fishery inspectors have expressed concern that the government has yet to fulfill the demands they presented last year. The Professional Association of Fisheries Inspectors (APIPES),...
Ecuador’s Fisheries Vice Minister Confident That Brussels Will Remove Yellow Card
Ivanova Cereceda, Ecuador's Vice Minister of Aquaculture and Fisheries, said in a recent interview that despite the yellow card imposed by European authorities, tuna exports to the bloc have...