Spain has issued a month-long ban during the month of July for seiners fishing for bigeye in the Eastern Atlantic and West African waters. The General Fisheries...
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Malaysia’s Labuan Boosting Domestic Tuna Market With MoU
The MP of the Malaysian territory of Labuan, Datuk Rozman Isli, attended the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zumbayu Enterprise (Dr. Tuna), Bakti Property (Latuna)...
GrupoMar Aims To Catch 25,000 M/T Of Seafood
Mexican company GrupoMar hopes to close 2019 with a catch of 25,000 M/T of fish products. According to the Director of Operation of the group,...
US NGO Developing ‘Natural Currency Standard’ For Pacific Islands
In collaboration with island countries in the Pacific, Conservation International (CI) is working to develop a ‘Natural Currency Standard’ for the region. This is an...
New Tuna Cannery For Century Pacific In 2019
Business is going well for Philippines-based cannery, Century Pacific Food Inc. The company has set aside PHP 2 billion (USD 39.1 million) as capital expenditures (capex) of which half will be...
Lischewski’s Co-Conspirators Will Testify During Trial
A federal judge has decided to allow co-conspirators in the canned tuna price-fixing case to testify against former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, Chris Lischewski....
EU-Mercosur Agreement Positive For Brazilian Tuna Trade
After 20 years in the making, the EU and several South American countries, which are members of Mercosur, have reached an agreement on trade. The partnership, among other...
Leading Danish Tuna Brand Glyngøre Sold
Orkla Foods have sold the Glyngøre tuna brand to Amanda Seafoods A/S. The move was done in an attempt for Orkla to reduce portfolio complexity and concentrate on...
SPTC Downsizes, Sells Off 8 Of Its US-Flagged Seiners
South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) has announced that it will be reducing its tuna purse seiners by more than half the number of its 14 US-flagged vessels. By the end of the year,...
EU-Vietnam Trade Deal Sets 7-Year Tariff Reduction For Canned Tuna
Canned tuna prices from Vietnam will not be free of duty within the EU immediately as some importers and VN processors might have hoped. On June 30, the EU and Vietnam signed a Free Trade...
A Stop To Trickery Of Chartering Vessels Evading IO Yellowfin Quota
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has decided to put rules in place that should end the practice of chartering of seiners to utilize them as temporary transfer to...
Spanish Canners Expand Share Of Italian Tuna Market
Canned tuna is one of the top five favored food products by Italian consumers. This is clearly shown in the number of imports of this item into the European country -- the...
Flywire Wants To Turn E-Monitoring Into A Profit Boosting Technology
On-board electronic monitoring can be more beneficial for fishermen than they think. The founders of the American company Flywire Cameras, Jacob Isaac-Lowery, and Sarah Alessi,...
IOTC Closes Loopholes On Deployed And Active FADs
Several major loopholes in the IOTC regulations on FADs that were exploited by several fleets have been closed. Following a Seychelles’ proposal to tighten the management of FADs,...
Fisherman Drowns Trying To Catch Tuna
A fisherman in Axim, Ghana drowned after the canoe he was in crashed when trying to catch a big tuna. Four other men were also in the small boat. After it was hooked, the large...
Major Tuna Highlights In June
During June, there were important developments in the global tuna community, which ranged from the conclusion of the IOTC meeting and what it meant for management of yellowfin to skipjack...
What Are The Consequences Of Yellowfin Decline For Indian Ocean FIPs?
Two weeks ago when the 23rd Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Annual Meeting held in Hyderabad, India, failed to produce concrete measures for the overfished yellowfin...
Princes Clearly Distinguishes Responsibly Sourced And Sustainably Caught
Earlier this month, Princes Food Netherlands issued a press release announcing that by the end of 2018, 94 percent of their entire tuna volume was responsibly...
BKK Skipjack Hits Sensitive Psychological Price Point
The latest indication is that whole round skipjack SKJ1.8:BKK price has stopped its decline at USD 1000 CFR Bangkok per M/T reference point. This is the lowest it has reached this...
EU Lifts Taiwan’s Yellow Card On IUU
The reforms Taiwan has taken over the last three and a half years to fight illegal fishing have worked out. Recently, the European commission (EC) decided to lift...