Ensuring the sustainability of tuna fisheries in the Eastern Pacific is one of the crucial issues that will be deliberated at the Americas Tuna Conference in Panama later this month. Guillermo...
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Director Of TU’s Petit Navire Talks Heavy Price & Supply Pressures
The Director General of Thai Union’s French branch, Petit Navire, says the company witnessed significant price and supply challenges last year, and is anxious going into 2018, considering...
Persisting Weak BKK Demand Drives Price Softening
Buying activity from packers in the Thai capital is fairly slow following the first New Year’s sales, and this has caused some further softening in the Bangkok skipjack price. After reaching a...
Just 15% Of Fresh & Frozen Tuna “Sustainable” Or “Improving”
A modest 15 percent of the fresh and frozen global tuna supply comes from a “sustainable” or “improving” fishery, according to a new report by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). To...
US Tuna Fund To Boost Fiji’s Domestic Industry
The Fijian government will spend FJD 1 million (USD 501,650) to develop its fisheries, including expanding its fish storage around the island and purchasing solar powered refrigeration. The...
Can EPO Tuna Fisheries Become Fully Sustainable?
Ensuring the sustainability of tuna fisheries in the Eastern Pacific is one of the crucial issues that will be deliberated at the Americas Tuna Conference in Panama later this month. Guillermo...
Iron Lady Backtracks On Trawling Ban After Protests
While Indonesia’s Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti initially planned an outright ban on trawling in Indonesia’s tuna-rich waters from the beginning of this year, she has now eased the...
TU’s Global Sustainability Director Takes Home “Leader” Award
Thai Union’s Global Sustainability Director, Dr. Darian McBain, has been named the ‘Sustainability Leader of the Year’ at the 2018 edie Sustainability Leaders Awards. This follows a series of...
A Turning Point For Thai Canners In US Market
A rise in US-sent canned tuna shipments was a turning point for Thai packers last year, who saw their business increase in a market that has shown dramatically fading demand for canned tuna...
MSC Defends Standard After Claims Of “Unacceptable Impacts”
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has defended its certification standards after 66 groups signed a letter urging the organization to address the “unacceptable impacts” of some MSC...
Tribunal To Hold Mozambique Tuna Debt Offenders Accountable
Mozambique’s Attorney General Office (PGR) has initiated legal proceedings to hold public officials and firms that are responsible for the country’s substantial debt, financially accountable....
India Develops More “Sustainable” Tuna Fleet With 16 New Vessels
The Indian government plans to build 16 tuna longliners and gillnetting vessels in order to stop fishermen from the “damaging practice of trawling”. This will be the first time Cochin...
Princes “On Track” For 100% Responsibly Sourced Next Year
One of the UK’s leading tuna brands, Mitsubishi owned Princes, has announced that as of December 2017, 90 percent of its tuna was sourced from either MSC fisheries, from FIPs, or it was fully...
La Niña Strengthens: Good Or Bad News For EPO Catch?
La Niña conditions continued throughout the past month and are now strengthening, expected to stick around until spring. In the past the cooling of the ocean surface across the equatorial...
OVERVIEW: 2018’s Expected Tuna Bans & Closures
In an era of increasing implementation of conservation measures across the world’s tuna catching grounds, every regulation will have an impact on supply, as they work to reduce catches and...
Cofaco Claims New Plant Will Go Ahead Despite Doubts
The recent shutdown of the Cofaco tuna plant based in the Portuguese archipelago, Azores, has continued to cause controversy with the latest rumors suggesting the owners never planned to build...
Russia Inspects Phil Tuna Plants Amid Talks To Boost Trade
Russia and the Philippines are working to strengthen trade ties, and to boost exports and imports of agricultural products between the two countries, with tuna being a core focus. A...
EU Needs Evidence To Investigate Illegal Bluefin Trade
The Spanish Member of Parliament (MEP) that alerted the European Commission on alleged illegal bluefin trade in Malta, has expressed her discontent with the EC’s decision not to investigate...
Dutch Tuna Newcomers Profit Big From Fleet Purchase
The purchase of CFTO’s extensive tuna purse seine fleet has paid off well for Dutch tuna industry newcomers, Parlevliet & Van der Plas (P&P), with the company reporting a 10 percent...
Panofi Seiner Released, Innocent Passage Proven
A Panofi owned Ghanaian purse seiner that was detained by the Liberian Coastguard on January 14th was released 4 days later, when it was proven that the vessel was on “innocent passage”...