Landings of yellowfin and skipjack in the Indian Ocean (IO) recorded a lower year-on-year level in 2020. And while the yellowfin catches by all gears still represented the third-highest volume...
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Not Overfished: Good News For Recovery Of Southern Bluefin
The management of the Southern bluefin stock is paying off as it has been classified as not overfished in the recent ABARES Fishery status report 2021. The research division of the Department...
Tu-Nah Sandwiches Rollout Across Aldi Stores In Germany
Starting this week, plant-based tuna sandwiches will be available in the more than 4,000 Aldi supermarkets across Germany. The items, sold under the name TU-NAH, were launched by the start-up...
Pressure Makes IATTC Fleets Agree On FAD Cuts & Bigeye Quotas
All eyes were on the latest IATTC annual meeting which ended last Friday. Pressure had been building up for the RFMO members to agree on conservation measures for tropical tuna for the next...
Oman Doubles Its Yellowfin Handline Catch
The Oman Ministry of Agricultural Wealth, Fisheries, and Water Resources has published that the yellowfin catches amounted to 68,000 M/T in 2020. According to recently published IOTC catch...
Dongwon Ready-Made Tuna Cubes Targets Younger Consumers
Korean tuna company Dongwon has launched its new Tuna Cube, a range of ready-made meals aimed at younger consumers. It is also collaborating with Samsung Electronics to promote the items. The...
Coastal States Push For Special Session On DFADs Reduction
Coastal states and distant water seiner fleets are at the moment two different warring camps at the moment concerning the reduction of drifting FADs (dFADs) in the Indian Ocean (IO). More...
Mozambique NGO Demands USD 2 Billion Debt Relief From Credit Suisse
Mozambique’s public finance watchdog, the Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO), has demanded that Credit Suisse give the African nation a full debt relief of USD 2 billion. This is ten times the...
Adam Brennan New Sustainability Director For Thai Union
Global tuna company Thai Union Group has appointed Adam Brennan as the new Director to head the company’s sustainability initiatives. He will be stepping into the role vacated by Darian...
Chef & Restaurant Owners Ask US Congress To Crack Down On IUU
More than 200 chefs and restaurant owners in the US have sent a letter to Congress asking for authorities to crack down on IUU fishing and forced labor abuses. They argue that they serve...
Ecuador Scored Slam Dunk In UK Market In 2020
The arrivals of canned tuna to the UK reached their lowest point in five years in 2020. This means that most suppliers lost part of their business in the country, but the Ecuadorians managed...
RD Switches To Eco-friendly Packaging For Dolly Tuna
RD Tuna Canners from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has committed to fighting plastic pollution. It will be replacing the plastic wrap around its Dolly Tuna brand's six-pack of canned tuna with a...
Kenyan Fishers Deny Being Abused On Chinese Vessels
A dozen Kenyan fishers have contradicted some of their colleagues’ comments regarding being mistreated aboard Chinese-flagged vessels which had left Mombasa to fish in the Indian Ocean in...
PNG-FIA Fishery MSC Cert Extended To Include Bigeye
SCS Global Services, the conformity assessment body of the PNG Fishing Industry Association (FIA) for MSC assessment has determined that the fishery’s scope extension to include bigeye should...
Can The Jelly-FAD Make FAD Fishing Sustainable?
For years, scientists have been working towards mitigating the environmental impact of drifting FADs (dFADs) given the sheer volume of these devices being used by the tuna purse seine...
Poor EPO Landings Steer Manta Skipjack Price Up
The first closure in the EPO ended at the beginning of October, which means that most seiners are now back at sea. Despite this, poor fishing continues to dominate which is driving the price...
OPAGAC Recommended For MSC Cert In IO & WCPO
It has been slightly over a year since the Spanish fishing group OPAGAC announced its intention to get simultaneous MSC certification in four oceans. And now, the certifier overseeing the...
Century Pacific Takes First Step Into Pet Food Biz
Century Pacific Food Inc (CNPF), the Filipino company well-known for its canned tuna brands such as Century Tuna, has decided to further diversify its portfolio and is venturing into the pet...
China Steps Up Effort In Data Compilation From Seiner Fleets
China is getting more serious about the compliance of its tuna seiners and longliners as well as other fishing vessels with more work being put towards data collection. The Shanghai Ocean...
Credit Suisse Fined Over USD 400 Million By US & UK Agencies Over Tuna Scandal
One Credit Suisse European unit pled guilty to wire fraud in a New York federal court on Tuesday. It will be paying a total of USD 475 million to both US and UK authorities for its role in the...