The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Ocean Cookbook 2025 was released last week. This free digital cookbook is a collection of recipes featuring MSC-certified seafood curated by chef and...
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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...
New Entity JBT Marel Corporation Begins Business
US-based JBT Corporation has completed its settlement of the voluntary takeover of Icelandic Marel. Going forward, the organizations will be trading as JBT Marel Corporation. Both companies...
World Wise Foods Net Profit Rose With Massive Climb In UK Sales
UK World Wise Foods Limited, the solely pole-and-line tuna products trading company, experienced a high turnover and net profit for the financial year March 2023 to March 2024. The group...
French Buyers Paid The Highest Value For Yellowfin First Sales
The first sales value of yellowfin in Spain and Portugal increased, but France dropped from January to September 2024 compared to the year before. However, French buyers paid the most for...
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...
StarKist Cannery Resumes Production With High Employee Turnout
StarKist American Samoa started production on Monday, the first day of operations for this year. According to a cannery official, there was a high turnout for work with 90 percent of employees...
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...
Will EU-Thailand FTA Talks Suffer From Reformed Thai Fisheries Act?
Thailand’s 2015 Fisheries Act is close to being amended which European tuna organizations say will lower the standards on labor rights in processing companies and weaken combating IUU fishing....
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...
Anfaco Warns Why Reformed Thai Fisheries Act Could Allow IUU Tuna To Enter EU Market
Thailand’s House of Representatives approved a major package of amendments to the country’s 2015 Fisheries Act on December 25. The country’s Senate has yet to ratify the reforms. Spanish...