Interest in Thai products increased slightly for canned tuna buyers while the average price of the deliveries suffered a drop in 2019. This is according to Thai Custom’s full-year figures of...
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Full Cotton The Best Biodegradable Rope Material For FADs
The results of a study of biodegradable ropes for FADs concluded that 100 percent cotton ropes should be utilized with fish aggregating devices as an alternative to the submerged nets...
Albatrosses Fitted With Sensors Pick Up On IUU Fishing
A group of scientists have decided to equip hundreds of albatrosses with sensors to detect vessels conducting illegal fishing. Some 169 wandering and Amsterdam albatrosses were fitted with the...
Is The Tuna Industry Prepared For A Long Price Depression?
The present overcapacity of the global purse seiner fleet and the conservation measures in place might lead us to a new longer-lasting depression as the current skipjack prices in Manta and...
MSC: Important To Promote Sustainable Bluefin Fishing
MSC has stated that it cannot confirm if a bluefin fishery consisting of only one vessel might achieve its certification in its response to World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) objection to the issue....
Spanish Vessel Targeting Bluefin Possibly Sank In Atlantic Ocean
Fears that a handliner targeting bluefin in the Atlantic has sunk along with its crew might have been confirmed today after two closed life rafts were found near a coastal town in Cádiz,...
IATTC Current Yellowfin Assessment Not Reliable For Management Advice
The results of the EPO yellowfin stock assessment for 2019 showed this tuna at a red level, which means that the target reference points (TRPs) are estimated to have been exceeded. The...
Credit Suisse Denies Liability In USD 2 Billion Mozambique Scandal
Credit Suisse has denied knowledge of the USD 2 billion-dollar scam (which included USD 850 million in tuna bonds) and bribery tied to loans from the bank to Mozambique. It also rejected the...
Tesco Scraps Plastic From Canned Tuna Multi-Packs
UK retailer Tesco, has announced that it will be fully eliminating plastic from multi-pack canned products including tuna effective March 2. The supermarket stated that the cans will be...
Thai Union SEALECT Tuna Launches 5 New Flavors
Thai Union’s SEALECT Tuna has partnered with Pa Waen, a well-known local brand for Thai mixed chili paste, to launch five new flavors – galangal, turmeric, bird’s eye chili, pepper, and...
Greenpeace Calls On FCF To Guarantee Legal Bumble Bee Products
Right on the heels of the news that FCF was cleared to buy the US tuna giant Bumble Bee, Greenpeace is calling on the Taiwanese company to assure American consumers that its products are 100...
Judge Approves Bumble Bee’s Sale To FCF
A US bankruptcy district judge has given the conditional go-ahead for the sale of tuna company Bumble Bee to Taiwanese trader, FCF, for about USD 930 million, stating that the sales process...
All Atlantic Albacore Stocks Are Doing Well
Atlantic albacore is not overfished according to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). The RFMO's scientific report states that the stocks in the North...
NZ: High Underreporting For Non-Observer Longliner Trips
Fishers on non-observed longliner fishing trips targeting migratory species such as tuna appear to be failing to report non-fish bycatch. This is according to the Annual Review Report for...
Maximizing Tuna Catches In The Short-Term Is Detrimental
The efficiency of modern purse seining becomes a disadvantage when only short-term economic gain is the dominant driver on how much we can take from the ocean. This is the critical and...
MSC Certification Of Dongwon Longline Fishery Divided
The public draft report covering the assessment for the MSC certification of Dongwon’s Pan Pacific longline fishery is now available for stakeholders to comment on. Those who wish to submit...
Tuna Rooms Found In Archaeological Remains In Spain
In Spain, two archaeological excavations carried out in the town of Estepona, in the province of Málaga, have revealed the remains of rooms used to process tuna from about 2,000 years ago. The...
72 Days With Reduced Supply Has Shot Manta Price Up
In Manta, trading activity recommencing after the Christmas/New Year break has shown an increase in the skipjack price. The shortage in tuna caused by the 72-day IATTC fishing ban for purse...
WWF Opposes Japanese Bluefin Fishery MSC Certification
The Usufuku Honten fishery is getting close to becoming the first bluefin fishery to be MSC certified. However, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has formally objected to the certification saying...
Bumble Bee Bonuses To Top 3 Execs Will Be Considered At Sale Hearing
A US bankruptcy judge approved all Bumble Bee’s bonuses and incentives programs for its top performing employees. However, she refused any payments to three high ranking unidentified...