Orthongel, the group representing the French tuna seiner fleet, in collaboration with the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), has published a new responsible fishing standard....
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600-Pound Tuna Can Reeled In From Ocean & Other Social Media Stories
A US news site took a hilarious dig at the annual Toyosu bluefin auction market. An Italian chef's tuna recipe has a lot of fans on Instagram. US content creator urged fans to think big this...
Malaysia’s Slow Growing Tuna Sector Mainly Boasts Of Neritic Tuna Landings
Malaysian-flagged vessels mainly catch neritic tuna than oceanic tuna in the Indian Ocean. This fleet is small compared to its Southeast Asian counterparts. Small purse seiners and trawlers...
Mystery Over Missing Fishers From Colombian Seiner ‘Patricia Lynn’ Continues
The lack of information around the Colombian-flagged seiner 'Patricia Lynn' which sunk on December 21 is putting government officials on a tough spot. The Ecuadorian Navy has not been able to...
British Navy Arrests Illegal Indian Tuna Fishers
The British Navy detained 10 Indian tuna fishermen near Diego Garcia Island, the largest archipelago of Chagos, in the Indian Ocean during the wee hours of Monday. The fishers, who hail from...
Are Basque Tuna Pole-And-Liners Victims Of EU-Senegal Dispute?
The termination of the EU-Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) has led to the fate of four Basque-based pole-and-liners, owned by Dakartuna, hanging in the balance. The...
Investigation Reveals Shocking Spanish Illegal Bluefin Activities
The Spanish Civil Guard nabbed a group that was long engaged in illegal bluefin fishing. Eight people who operated in the port city of Malaga are now being questioned after officials carried...
Majuro Port Transshipments Plunged In 2024
Majuro, the transshipment port of the Marshall Islands, oversaw around 46 percent fewer transshipment operations in 2024. This data was revealed by the Marshall Islands Marine Resources...
South African Pole-And-Line Atlantic Albacore Catches Is MSC Certified
The Southern African Sustainable Tuna Association (SASTUNA) pole-and-line fishery received the blue tick for its albacore catches in the South African EEZ in the Atlantic Ocean. The CAB, LRQA,...
Chinese Longline Fleet Shrinking In The Indian Ocean
The Chinese fleet operating in the Indian Ocean is only comprised of longliners and their numbers have declined drastically over the years. These vessels were at a five-year low in 2023. They...
Indian Ocean Bigeye Overfished, Fleets Must Stick To TAC
Indian Ocean bigeye is overfished according to the latest scientific data. The 2023 catches were above the recommended total allowable catch (TAC). IOTC scientists said that achieving the...
Indian State To Use Drones To Combat IUU Fishing
The Western Indian state of Maharashtra will be the first in the country to use drones to monitor illegal fishing operations in its seas. Beginning on January 9, drones will be deployed along...
EU Canners’ Demand For Whole Rounds Climbed In 2024
European canneries increased their buying of frozen whole rounds from January to September last year with most of the main suppliers increasing their business. The raw materials were much...
New Law To Speed Disaster Relief For US Tuna Fishers
US President Joe Biden recently signed the FISHES Act into law thus making it easier for tuna and other seafood fishers to obtain financial aid amidst disaster without hassle. This is good...
Stable IO Skipjack Catches Hardly Impacted Price
Low catch volumes and small-sized skipjack marked the start of the new year for the purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean, no change from the situation last year. After activities slowed down...
Biden Axes US Offshore Drilling Plans To Protect Tuna & Other Marine Life
US President Joe Biden is taking action to protect over 625 million acres of the nation’s waters from offshore drilling. The White House announced earlier this week that future oil and natural...
Women Entrepreneurs Come Together To Promote Gender Parity In Seafood Sector
An event that kick-started in Mexico earlier this week has brought together women entrepreneurs, who run various tuna and seafood businesses to discuss how to grow the sector together. The...
Indonesian IO Tuna Catches Reached Peak In 2023
The volume of tuna caught by Indonesian-flagged vessels in the Indian Ocean (IO) in 2023 hit record in over 70 years. Skipjack was the main catch followed by yellowfin, bigeye, and albacore....
Tuna Or Deep-Sea Mining? Choose tuna
-VIEWPOINT- The nascent deep-sea mining industry shares notable similarities with the tuna industry: both rely on extracting natural resources (copper, nickel, cobalt, and other metals needed...
IOTC Raises 2025 Yellowfin Quotas By Small Margin
The IOTC has slightly increased the volumes of yellowfin that fishing fleets can catch in the Indian Ocean for 2025. This news comes on the heels that the scientists declared that IO yellowfin...