Kenya's tuna fleet posted its strongest catch in five years in 2024, driven by a sharp increase in yellowfin, bigeye, and skipjack landings. Kenya submitted its National Report to the IOTC...
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US Bill Allows FDA To Destroy Unsafe Imported Tuna
The US House recently passed a bill that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to destroy imported tuna, seafood, and other food products that pose significant health risks. The...
US Food Prices Remained Stable In June, Canned Tuna Stayed Cheap
Food inflation remained stable in June compared to May according to the US Consumer Price Index (CPI). The prices of shelf stable tuna and seafood increased slightly in the same period. The...
Canned Tuna Producers Face Renewed Uncertainty With New US Duties
The US government has imposed additional 10 to 12.5 percent tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners for failure to enforce measures to prohibit goods produced with forced labor. Canned...
EU Risks Losing Key Tuna Foothold In Mauritanian Waters
Spanish tuna fishers are increasingly concerned that the EU-Mauritania Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) will not be renewed before it expires in November, potentially forcing...
Taiwan Leads Longline Fleet Count, China Tops Fish Hold Volume
The world’s biggest longline fleet by vessel count sails under Taiwan’s flag, but China dominates in Fish Hold Volume (FHV), according to a recent ISSF report. The Foundation outlined a set of...
New Zealand’s Fisheries Role Emerges In Tokelau’s VDS Dispute
The termination of Tokelau’s participation in the PNA Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) has rattled the island nation’s tuna-fishing-based economy. A PNA spokesperson attributed the move to New...
Europeans Eating Less Seafood But Tuna Gains Ground
Overall European consumption of fishery and aquaculture products has fallen over the last decade, and in 2023, per capita consumption dropped to its lowest level at 22.9 kg per capita....
Ricardo Fuentes Group Restructures Board Following Bluefin Controversy
The Ricardo Fuentes Group, the Cartagena-based bluefin company, has restructured its leadership, removing top executives José and Juan Pedro Fuentes following their convictions for illicit...
Thai Demand For Asian Whole Round Tuna Slumps
Thai processors’ frozen whole round tuna purchases from their largest Asian suppliers fell from January to March this year, primarily due to a supply shortage of fish in the WCPO, with prices...
Warming Seas Threaten Livelihoods Of Solomon Islands Tuna Fishers
Small-scale fishers in the Solomon Islands say ocean warming is disrupting tuna catches and impacting their livelihoods, with skipjack and yellowfin, their main catches, increasingly shifting...
ISSF Report Finds Fishhold Capacity Heavily Concentrated In Large Longliners
Large-scale longline vessels (above 24 meters) represent only 31 percent of the registered global longline fleet with tuna RFMOs, but concentrate over 86 percent of estimated fishhold...
Nearly Half Of Ecuadorian Fleet Opts For Veda
Nearly 38 percent of the EPO tuna fleet has opted to pause operations during the first phase of purse seine fishery closure from August 6 to October 8. Nearly half of the Ecuadorian fleet has...
Argentina Combats IUU Landings By Ratifying Port State Measures
Argentina's approval of a law to accede to the FAO’s Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) on July 17 marks a significant step in IUU fishing in the southwest Atlantic, a region with...
Shanghai Kaichuang Predicts Net Loss Due To Poor Tuna Operations
Chinese tuna fishing company Shanghai Kaichuang Marine International has forecasted a net loss for the first half of this year due to lower tuna catches and high operating costs. On July 14,...
Global Shark Fin Trade: Markets, Suppliers & Role in Tuna Longline Economics
The global shark fin trade remains one of the most valuable seafood by-product markets, despite tighter regulations and declining demand in some traditional consuming countries. This has...
European Groups Push EU For Tighter Fishing Crew Safety And Training Standards
A group of European fishing industry employers and workers’ representatives urged the EU to make international fishing crew training standards legally binding across all of its member states....
Trump Defies Pacific Opposition With First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale
The US government recently announced a proposed deep-sea mining lease sale in waters near American Samoa, marking the world’s first attempt to mine the deep sea commercially. If approved, the...
Spanish Seafood Processors Gear Up For Updated Labeling Rules
Canned tuna and seafood producers in Spain will have to comply with new labeling rules from this year, as processors must provide better information about species, sizes, and presentation....
Human Rights Groups Call For US Investigation Into Missing Ecuadorian Fishers
Six months after the Ecuadorian-flagged tuna longliner ‘Fiorella’ and most of its crew went missing, major human rights groups have called upon the US Congress to investigate the incident. Two...