Brazil's artisanal vessels were highly successful when it came to catching tuna but there was much less purse seine activity last year. Baitboats caught the most skipjack compared to any other...
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Malta’s 2021 Tuna Farming Operating Profit Shows Improvement
Malta's National Statistics Office (NSO) released a study highlighting the country's total turnover for aquaculture and tuna farming industries amounting to EUR 224.9 million in 2021. Nearly...
World’s Largest Purse Seiner Sails Under Seychelles Flag
Purse seiners are extensively used for commercial fishing around the world. However, over the past couple of years, their numbers have decreased due to vessel de-listings by RFMOs. In a 2021...
ICCAT Meeting Starts With SCRS Stock Status Report
The ICCAT 23rd Special Commission Meeting in Portugal kicked off on November 14 with a playful protest calling on support for the EU’s proposal to save mako sharks. The Standing Committee on...
French IO Seiners Drastically Reduced Yellowfin Free School Catches
The French purse seiner fleet was known for its free school yellowfin catch in the Indian Ocean. However, an overview of the fleet’s catches from 1981 to 2021 shows that since 2009, the...
WCPFC Members Ignore Voice Of The Market On Harvest Control Rules
The WCPFC19 is all set to begin in over a week and over 25 delegate countries are expected to participate. But at the roundtable meeting organized by the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) in Danang,...
Thai Union Optimistic But Alternative Proteins Segment No “Golden Goose”
Thai Union is optimistic about the plant-based sector but its Head of Global Business Development of Seafood Alternatives, Gerben Kamps, warned that caution is necessary as the segment is not...
Vietnam’s Tuna Exports To Japan Reach USD 31 Million
Vietnam’s tuna exports to Japan experienced a massive increase in sales in the third quarter, eventually pulling up the overall cumulative trade value for the first nine months of the year....
Supreme Court’s Ruling Means No Way Out For StarKist In Price-Fixing
On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected StarKist’s appeal to toss out the class certification of tuna buyer groups in a price-fixing scandal that shocked the country in 2015. The...
Dongwon F&B Partners With ET Movie For Limited Tuna Edition
Dongwon Tuna has partnered with Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi movie ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ to make limited edition unique tuna cans named ‘Dongwon Tuna ET40 Memorial Edition’ to celebrate...
Isabel Wants To Revolutionize Spanish Market With Tuna Pouches
Spanish tuna brand Isabel has introduced a pouched tuna product for the local market. This is revolutionary as consumers in this country are known for buying tuna in traditional small cans,...
Thai Canned Tuna Trade With Americas Shows Meager Recovery In Q3
Thai canned tuna processors slightly recovered their business with markets in the Americas in the first nine months of this year. North American buyers especially increased their trade with...
Recall Of John West Tuna Salad In The UK
UK leading tuna brand John West has recalled its ‘On The Go Indian Tuna Rice Salad’. The product contained soya and wheat (gluten), but the ingredients were not mentioned on the label that...
Chinese Zheijang Ocean Family’s Fishery Aims For MSC In Three Oceans
Chinese Zhejiang Ocean Family is opting for MSC certification of its Pacific and Indian Ocean Longline Tuna and Swordfish fishery. The CAB, SCS Global Services, released three assessment...
Egyptian Tuna Brands Hike Product Prices Owing To New Pound Value Against USD
The strengthening of the dollar against the Egyptian pound has affected the country’s tuna sector. Most brands announced a hike in their products that came into effect in November. Egypt is...
How A Decade Of Management Measures Has Improved Global Tuna Stock Health
For the first time, a study has managed to show how measures implemented by resource-owning nations and RFMOs have improved global tuna stocks globally. Spanish research center AZTI in...
Tri Marine Longline Fishery Attains MSC For Bigeye In WCPO
While the biggest purse seine tuna MSC fishery in the WCPO, that of the PNA, recently failed its scope extension for bigeye, Tri Marine-owned Solomon Islands Longline albacore and yellowfin...
Grupomar’s Purse Seiner Catches Fire, No Casualties Reported
Purse seiner ‘Gijon’ owned by the Mexican tuna fishing company Grupomar caught fire at sea when returning to Manzanillo port. The reason was presumably a short circuit in the engine room area....
Euro Strengthening Against USD Improves Buying Position For EU Tuna Sector
The euro has strengthened against the dollar and is above parity. Currently, EUR 1 is USD 1.03. The dollar slid on Tuesday as rising German bond yields strengthened the euro. This is good news...
Dongwon F&B Announces Further Price Hike For Tuna
Dongwon Food & Beverage is again increasing the prices of all Dongwon tuna products sold in South Korea. The new rates are set to start on December 1. On average, the price per item will...