The Japanese Fisheries Agency plans to cut next season’s juvenile bluefin quota to zero for some prefectures in the country. The decision comes after Japan grows increasingly close to...
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Are Retailers Hiding Behind Consumers On Sustainability Decisions?
Recently, some industry sources have suggested retailers have a major role to play in ensuring consumers are offered MSC tuna products. Yet some retailers still do not push suppliers to...
Vast Majority Believe US Regulation Enabling IUU Bonito Imports
This year, the Seafood Importing Monitoring Program (SIMP) was implemented by the US to prevent IUU caught seafood from entering the market. As the program excludes bonito-type species, Atuna...
Taiwan And Japan Alter Tuna Agreement In Disputed Seas
Taiwan and Japan have agreed on changing the rules for their respective tuna longliners to fish for bluefin in waters close to Japan’s Senkaku Islands. The archipelago in the East China Sea...
US Fleet: 2018 FAD Ban Flexible But Discriminatory
While the high seas FAD ban this year allows for some flexibility in its adoption, it remains discriminatory to certain fleets, according to a source representing US seiners. He also believes...
Reformed TPP To Cost Australia’s Tuna Sector Millions
Australia’s seafood capital, Port Lincoln, is expected to be hit by the reformed TPP deal after losing its competitive advantage under a previous agreement with Japan. It is believed this will...
More Stringent Control Over Panama’s Tuna Fleet
More stringent fleet monitoring and work to combat illegal fishing are some of the priorities going forward for the Panamanian tuna industry to make its operations more sustainable, a...
Spain’s Unchanged Quota Distribution Frustrates Canaries
The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture has published its national distribution of the eastern bluefin quota and as expected, more than 90 percent of quota has been reserved for the core part of...
Chinese Pingtan Bounces Back Following Financial Turmoil
The Chinese tuna fishing firm, Pingtan, ended 2017 with impressive financial gains after a difficult previous year. The company has credited its strong recovery to an increase in vessels...
Europêche: Unreliable Global Fishing Watch Study Misleads Public Opinion
The body that represents the EU fleet, Europêche, has criticized a recent study conducted by researchers from several organizations including Global Fishing Watch. The study, which revealed...
Will 2018 P&L Catch Match Last Year’s Supply Boom?
Last year a sudden and substantial boost in skipjack catches by Maldivian pole and line vessels drove a sharp increase in raw material sent from the IO country to Bangkok. Taking the past five...
Big Bids On Massive Bluefin Caught In Japan
The second biggest bluefin ever caught in Japan has been sold in port and taken to one of the world’s most famous fish markets, where it has attracted high bids. Measuring in at 2.74 meters,...
One Year On: Is TU & Princes IO FIP Progressing?
One year has passed since the Indian Ocean tuna FIP, initiated by Thai Union, Princes and multiple other stakeholders, was officially activated. How has the Fishery Improvement Project (FIP)...
What Is Stopping More MSC Tuna Hitting The German Market?
Despite being one of the largest EU canned tuna markets, the German market still has low volumes of MSC certified canned tuna on its supermarket shelves. One German importer has put this down...
Thai PM Threatens To Arrest All Illegal Migrant Workers
Thailand’s prime minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha has threatened to arrest all migrant workers who are not registered by the end of June. This will also mean employers, many of which are in the...
Buyers Pressure Thailand, More Transparency Over Migrant Pay
The Thai government has introduced a new policy requiring all migrants working in the seafood industry to have a bank account. As pressure from foreign buyers grows, Thai officials expect the...
P&P-Owned Seiners To Change IO Fishing Strategy
Europe’s largest seiner fleet, Compagnie Française du Thon Océanique (CFTO), will change its fishing strategy this year due to yellowfin quota restrictions. The CEO of the firm tells Atuna...
Global Tuna Catch Climbs Back Up
A compilation of all tuna RFMO data reveals that global tuna catch climbed up slightly to around 4.9 million tons in 2016 – one of the highest tonnages on record. While more of this catch has...
Global Tuna Catch Climbs Back Up (2)
A compilation of all tuna RFMO data reveals that global tuna catch climbed up slightly to around 4.9 million tons in 2016 – one of the highest tonnages on record. While more of this catch has...
Bangkok’s Biggest Supplier Faces EU Inspection
EU officials will be in Taiwan this week to assess the nation’s efforts to curb IUU fishing, and could potentially decide on the next step regarding the country’s current yellow card status....