MSC has announced that it will continue to allow remote assessments and audits in the areas where COVID-19 measures prevent on-site visits. As a result of this decision, the measure will be in...
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Atunlo Denies Soft Measures Led To COVID-19 Plant Outbreak
In mid-August, positive COVID-19 cases started to appear among the personnel of the Atunlo cannery in Santoña, Spain. Consequently, the plant was shut down for 15 days -- the measure to last...
Marshall Islands’ Fisheries Earnings Hit By Pandemic
Revenue from the tuna fishery sector in the Marshall Islands is expected to fall by millions in US dollars due to the coronavirus impact on vessels' activity and transshipments in the...
PNA Transshipment Port Activity Reflects Shift In Fishing Areas
The largest global tuna supply from the WCPO is mainly transshipped in the PNA region but raw material operations between seiners and carriers plunged across all major ports in July. The...
Little Sustainable Progress Among Canada’s Top Retailers
In the 12 months between August 2019 and July 2020, Canadian retailers had little improvement in their sustainable seafood commitments. This is according to SeaChoice’s Seafood Progress, an...
Family Of Jailed US Captain Urges Govt To Intervene
The family of Michael Foy wants the US State Department to intervene on his behalf. Foy is the captain of the US longliner ‘Rebel Lady’ and has been imprisoned in the British Virgin Islands...
Ecuador Loses Big Share In US Pouches Biz
Deliveries of tuna pouches to the US fell considerably in the first half of 2020 (H1), compared to the year before, with a leading supplier losing more than a third of its business in this...
Thai Union Increases Stake In Red Lobster
Publicly traded seafood business, Thai Union Group, announced that it will be acquiring more shares in Red Lobster Master Holding, owner of the Red Lobster restaurant chain. Through the...
COVID-19 Slashes World’s Largest Seafood Firm’s Profits
The COVID-19 crisis has deeply affected the world’s largest seafood firm, Maruha Nichiro. Results for the quarter from April 1 to June 30 show a consistent decrease in net sales, income, and...
Greenpeace Report On Asian Tuna Rankings Misleading
A new report ranking a handful of tuna companies and canneries in Southeast Asia (SEA) has been published by Greenpeace, based on various issues ranging from sustainability to labor rights....
Dongwon F&B Did Not Benefit From Growing Tuna Sales
Dongwon Food & Beverage, manufacturer of processed food products mainly for the Korean market, experienced a boost in its canned tuna sales from March to June of 18.2 percent year-on-year....
New Albo Plant Will Help Chinese Owner Expand In The EU
The Chinese processing and trading group Shanghai Kaichuang is taking firm steps to expand in the European market. The company’s Board of Directors recently approved the construction of a new...
IATTC Scientists Push For Firm FAD Limits In EPO
The IATTC staff have recommended a cut in the number of floating-object sets for all purse seine vessels as a precautionary measure to prevent the EPO skipjack stock from becoming overfished....
General Santos Port Temporarily Shuts Down Due To COVID-19
A rise in COVID-19 cases among workers and fish traders operating in the General Santos City Fishport Complex has sparked a four-day shutdown of several portions of the harbor. This will mark...
Experts Rank WWF As Leading NGO On Sustainability
The latest GlobeScan-SustainAbility Survey showed that professionals consider WWF the leading NGO advancing global sustainable development. The poll was conducted online amid the COVID-19...
Pirates Kidnap Another South Korean Seiner Crew
On August 28, a group of armed pirates attacked the Ghanaian-flagged pole-and-line vessel ‘AP 703’ located 200 km south of Port Lomé, Togo. They kidnapped the only two South Korean fishers in...
Seiner Helicopter Used In Evacuation After Storm
Due to tropical storm ‘Hernán’, 30 passengers of AeroMexico were stranded at the Playa de Oro airport in Manzanillo, Mexico. A helicopter from one of the purse seiners of the fishing and...
Australia’s First Tuna Seiner ‘MFV Tacoma’ In Virtual Show
Australia’s first tuna purse seiner boat, ‘MFV Tacoma’, which changed the course of commercial pelagic fishing in the country, will be displayed in virtual form via the 2020 Port Townsend...
Grupomar Donates Over A Million Cans Of Tuna
In Mexico, a canned tuna company is putting its money where its mouth is by combating malnutrition and food shortages as well as by helping people most affected by the COVID-19 crisis in the...
Philippines Canners’ US Shipments Take A Dive
Canned tuna imports into the US market surged in the first half of 2020 (H1) with a record-high volume of product being delivered, which can mainly be attributed to retail demand due to...