Thai Union recently appointed Aloys Meinema as the new Managing Director Ambient Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for its business in Thailand. Meinema, who has served as the General...
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Readers: New Thai Fisheries Act Will Disrupt EU-Thailand FTA Deal
Spanish canners association Anfaco has been reiterating why the EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) must not include canned tuna. Recently, it got a reason to hold tight to its request....
Peruvian Politician Accused In Tuna Fishing Scam
Peruvian Congressperson Darwin Espinoza has been accused of taking bribes to modify tuna fishing regulations in the country three years back. Espinoza allegedly received over PEN 1 million...
WCPO December Catches Showed Striking Drop
Catches in the WCPO declined by a quarter in December compared to the previous month. Seiners netted substantially less skipjack and more large bigeye and large yellowfins. The operations were...
Taiwan And Japan Enter Into New Bluefin Trade Deal
The Taiwanese Fisheries Agency announced that tuna fishermen associations from three districts – Suao, Donggang, and Xingang – signed an agreement with Japanese company Dinghong Co., Ltd last...
Alliance Select Comes To Agreement With Minority Shareholders
Philippines tuna and seafood company, Alliance Select Foods International, announced that it reached a deal with minority shareholders and former board directors after a decade of legal...
Aldi South First Retailer To Adopt MSC Improvement Program
Aldi South recently adopted the MSC’s new Improvement Program in its sourcing policy thus becoming the first global retailer to do so. It means Aldi will source tuna from fisheries under this...
Bolton Is Expanding Its Cermenate Plant Operations
Italian tuna company Bolton recently presented its 2025-2027 industrial plan stating that its staffing and canned tuna operations will increase in the main Cermenate plant where canned tuna...
Canary Islands Bluefin Fishing Season Begins Today
The 2025 Canary Islands bluefin fishing season will begin today, nine days earlier than what was allowed last year. In total, 250 vessels can catch 537.69 tons of fish. The decision was made...
Anfaco And Galicia Kick-Start Mission To Promote Tuna Consumption
Spanish canners association Anfaco has partnered with the Galician administration to promote the consumption of canned tuna and other seafood, especially among young Spaniards. Anfaco and the...
SPC Asks Tuna Fleets For Help With New DFAD Monitoring Project
The Pacific Community (SPC) scientists are involved in a new project that will monitor dFADs drifting outside fishing grounds in the WCPO and EPO. They have called on fishing companies for a...
CFTO Sold Three IO Seiners To Omani Firm
Compagnie Française du Thon Océanique (CFTO) sold three modern purse seiners ‘Drennec’, ‘Glenan’, and ‘Trevignon’ to Omani company Rawanq Al Salam International. CFTO reduced its IO fleet to...
Seiner Skipjack Catches In Kiribati Waters Hit Five-Year-Peak In 2023
Kiribati's strong purse seine and longliner fleets have been showing stable growth over the years. The volumes of tuna captured by seiners reached a five-year peak in 2023. Fishing agreements...
Indonesia First Country To Adopt GDST Traceability Standard
Indonesia is taking a step forward to improve the ocean to plate traceability of its multi-million worth tuna sector. The Asian nation has upgraded its national seafood traceability system,...
Portuguese Autonomous Regions’ Tuna Boats Get Quota For 2025
The Portuguese autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores entered into a new agreement recently which allows their vessels to catch 110 tons of bigeye (per boat) annually. This was published in...
Orthongel Announces New French AFNOR Responsible Fishing Standard
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....
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...
Thai Canners Cut Back On Yellowfin Whole Round Imports In Q1-Q3
Thai processors reduced their overall yellowfin whole rounds buying from January to September 2024 despite some major producers increasing their business. The average value of the raw material...
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...
Chris Lischewski To Head US Golding Farm Foods
Chris Lischewski, former CEO of Bumble Bee Seafoods, has been appointed as President of Golding Farm Foods. Established in 1972 in North Carolina, the company offers a variety of consumer and...