The European Commission issued a yellow card to Senegal on Monday because it has found the African nation's work to combat IUU fishing is insufficient. European regulators pointed out...
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Chinese Top Fisheries Official Accused Of Corruption
The Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tang Renjian, is being investigated for making illegal deals. Renjian, who has been overlooking China’s tuna and other seafood sector...
Study Looks At Tuna Movement In Indian And Pacific Oceans
A group of researchers from Indonesia and Japan conducted a study to analyze the movement of skipjack, yellowfin, albacore, and bigeye, in the waters around Indonesia. The result of the paper...
Lucrative Thai Pet Food Exports Rose Sharply In Q1
Thai pet food sales picked up by three-fourths in the first three months of 2024. After a collapse last year, it returned to 2022 levels at an average price higher than what was invoiced for...
Ecuador And Cook Islands Enter Into New Tuna Fisheries Agreement
Ecuador signed a new deal to establish diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, including inking a new fisheries agreement. This is expected to improve Ecuador’s tuna fishing activities in the...
Princes Group Inching Closer To Acquisition By Italian Company
Princes Group announced today that Italian-based food manufacturer Newlat Food S.p.A “intends” to acquire the entire Group from Mitsubishi Corporation for a whopping GBP 700 million (USD 892...
EU Welcomes IOTC Measures To Improve Sustainability
The European Commission stated that the 11 conservation and management measures agreed upon in the latest IOTC meeting will make tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean more sustainable. The...
Employees At Grupomar’s Cannery Go On Strike
Workers at Nanomar protested on Friday against a massive pay cut and demanded fair distribution of the company’s profits among them. The processing facility is a subsidiary of the Mexican tuna...
Pacific Fisheries Surveillance Brings Illegal Activities Of Ten Vessels To Light
The FFA-led monitoring and surveillance mission ‘Tui Moana’ identified ten vessels that commited potential infringements, including non-compliance with national controls and WCPFC conservation...
Astonishing EPO Skipjack Catch Reported In Q1
Tuna fishing vessels had a good start in the first three months of this year as nearly a quarter more fish was landed in EPO ports, compared to last year's Q1. This can be credited to the...
Sustainability Needs Accountability – Why It Is Time For The Equal Access Principles
- Sponsored Content - Seafood marketers, processors, and suppliers face ever-increasing pressure to provide sustainable seafood to their consumers. However, global fisheries management systems...
PNG Ports Record Massive Transshipments In April
The transshipments in PNA ports rose by 22 percent despite a a slight drop in total catches in the WCPO last month. Papua New Guinea (PNG) ports doubled their transshipments last month...
Mauritius Formally Agrees To Cut Harmful Subsidies
Mauritius has decided not to provide subsidies to harmful fisheries by joining the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. It deposited its “instrument of...
OPAGAC Implements Improved Vessel Activities’ Transparency
The Spanish purse seiners, grouped under OPAGAC, has adopted blockchain technology to enhance the transparency of their tuna catches. It will help the vessels' owners to trace the catches,...
CFTO Workers Put Their Foot Down On Pay Cut Proposal
The sailors working on CFTO's seiners asserted that a 30 percent cut in their salaries is not negotiable. This was revealed at the general meeting held on May 17 between the workers and the...
Bumble Bee Ropes In Popular English Boy Band For Promotion
In the 30-second video released on Bumble Bee’s YouTube channel last week, three-member band BBMak reimagines their popular 1999 hit song “Back Here, baby” as "Snack meal, baby.” In the ad,...
Dramatic Low WCPO Yellowfin Catch Killing For Industry?
The daily catch rate of large yellowfin in April has dropped to nearly zero in the WCPO. Supply to the canning industry is at a worrisome point because the catch of small species has also been...
WCPO Large Yellowfin Catch Sank To Rock Bottom In April
WCPO tuna catch slightly declined in April with skipjack remaining at the same level but the decrease in large and small yellowfin volumes is dramatic. The fishing moved northwards in the...
Myth Buster: Canned Tuna Contains Added Chemicals And Preservatives
Despite its popularity, there are many questions associated with the credibility of canned tuna, one of the main being “canned tuna contains added preservatives and chemicals.” Atuna did a...
Start-Up Unveils Its First Premium Cell-Based Bluefin
Israeli company Wanda Fish produced its first cultivated 'toro sashimi' made from the underbelly of the bluefin. The product is created from the cellular mass of muscle and fat from bluefin...