The EU and Mediterranean nations last week adopted the new MedFish4Ever Declaration 2027, setting out a 10-year strategy for fisheries and aquaculture management across the Mediterranean, a...
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IOTC’s 30th Session Begins In Maldives With Major Tuna Issues In Focus
The five-day 30th Session of the IOTC started in the Maldives today. Management procedure for tuna, crew standards and monitoring, and the implementation of dFAD register, are some of the...
Europêche Says EU Tuna Companies Contribute To Coastal State Economies
EU tuna catches in the Indian Ocean have risen over the past decade because many European companies have reflagged their vessels to coastal states, according to a report published by the Blue...
Sapmer Suffers Major Financial Blow As Tuna Fleet Falters
French fishing company Sapmer saw its results turn sour in the second half of 2025. It closed 2025 with a drop in revenue and an enormous net loss due to a write-down of the firm's tuna...
Nirsa Navigates Global Uncertainty And Challenging Market Conditions
The current global situation with higher marine fuel prices, extra freight surcharges, and volatility of catches is impacting tuna fishing fleets, and vertically-integrated company Nirsa is no...
Tuna Overtakes Cod In MSC-Certified UK And Ireland Sales
In the UK, a new milestone was reached as MSC-certified tuna sales overtook those of cod, becoming the most sold species with a blue tick last year. The volume of MSC tuna purchased in this...
Setback For Trump: US Trade Court Strikes Down February Tariffs
Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Thursday after the US Court of International Trade ruled that the 10 percent tariff, imposed in February on imported tuna and a broad range of other...
Anova Food Appoints New Retail Sales Director
Jessie Graef has been appointed as the new Director of Retail Sales of Anova Food, the leading North American supplier of sashimi-grade ready-to-eat tuna products. The company is a subsidiary...
Report Shows EU Majority Beneficial Ownership In IO Tuna Seiner Fleet
A latest report from environmental NGO Blue Marine Foundation released today gives a comprehensive look into EU beneficially-owned purse seiners flagged to coastal nations fishing in the...
Thai Canners See Massive Reduction In Pacific Skipjack WR
Thai processors purchased lower volumes of skipjack between January and March 2026 compared to the same period last year. They had to switch sourcing tuna because major fleets in the WCPO...
Genova Debuts Ready-To-Eat Mediterranean Tuna Bowls
Genova Premium Tuna has launched two new high-protein ‘Mediterranean Tuna Bowls’ in the US, amid rising consumer interest in Mediterranean diets. Thai Union, through its US subsidiary...
Mohamed Anas Appointed To Lead State-Owned Mifco
Maldivian state-run Mifco has named Mohamed Anas as its CEO and Managing Director, succeeding Farhath Shaheer, who stepped down in April after more than a year in the role. Before taking the...
AZTI Develops Technology To Monitor Purse Seine Nets In Real-Time
Spanish research firm AZTI has developed an innovative real-time monitoring system that can reconstruct, with high accuracy, the geometry of purse seine nets when they are deployed in water....
Global Appetite For MSC Tuna Surge Led By Germany & US
Global sales of MSC tuna continued to grow from April 2025 to March 2026, led by strong demand for skipjack. Germany remained the largest market for sustainably sourced tuna followed by the...
Softening Skipjack Price In Bangkok, El Niño Grip On WCPO Supply
The price of frozen whole round skipjack in the Bangkok hub is softening amid reluctance by canneries to buy raw materials at high rates. The supply from WCPO fisheries remains poor. Atuna has...
EU Freezing Rule Responded To Fraud Prevention Rather Than A Health Crisis
Salvador Ramon Mateo, President of Frime, emphasized the challenges of compliance with the -18 degree Celsius rule for purse seiners at the Atuna European Tuna Conference held in April in...
Maldives, Sri Lanka Tighten Trade Relations With New Tuna Deal
Maldivian state-run Mifco will soon begin exporting its premium canned tuna, Fasmeeru Felivaru, to Sri Lanka through Colombo-based Development Interplan Ceylon Ltd. (DICL). The deal was signed...
Hawaiian Longline Fishery Attempts Again For MSC Scope Extension
The Hawaii longline swordfish, bigeye, and yellowfin fishery has initiated an MSC scope extension to include longline-caught EPO bigeye in the IATTC convention area. The CAB, Control Union,...
Albacore Stands Out Amid Thai WR Purchases Decline
Thai processors reduced the purchases of all frozen whole round tuna species, except albacore, between January and March this year. In the first quarter of 2025, Thailand imported 193,367 M/T...
Chinese Longliners Draw Fresh Scrutiny Over Labor Abuse Claims
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is calling on countries to endorse a Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, after reports found that tuna and other seafood from Chinese vessels,...