Despite a recent report calling for Atlantic bluefin stocks to be reassessed in light of a new spawning site, Pew has said that it’s much too premature to be calling it “a game changer” for...
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Thai Union’s Amazing Stock Recovery
Thai Union is back in the game, and following several months of coasting at a far lower level, share value has now rocketed to a one-year high. Investors are trading fast, and on several days...
Why MSC Doesn’t Have EU Accreditation
Friend of the Sea (FOS) recently announced that it is the first and only fisheries and aquaculture certification scheme to achieve official endorsement by an EU National Accreditation Body,...
Japan Urges South Korea To End Excessive Fishing
The Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) has called upon South Korea to halt excessive fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna, which is in breach of international rules. Being a major consumer of bluefin,...
FIMS: The Eyes And Ears Of The PNA
Despite perpetual talk of rampant IUU fishing globally and ways in which it can be curbed, little attention is often given to the systems designed to battle such illegal activities, such as...
The Only Major Player To See Strong US Growth
In a year in which US buyers showed a declining appetite for imported canned tuna, there was only one major supplier that managed significant growth in this large market in 2015. Not only did...
Registration Underway For Tuna 2016 Bangkok
It’s now only two months until the tuna industry’s biggest event, the INFOFISH World Tuna Trade Conference & Exhibition (Tuna 2016) comes back to Bangkok this year, taking the central...
The Ins And Outs Of The EU IUU Carding Process
Recent headlines have been strewn with reports of the progress being made by third nations currently carded by the EU, including important tuna suppliers like Thailand and Sri Lanka, but...
Unique Deal From Yellow Card Nations To Stop Tuna IUU
With respective yellow cards of both five and eleven months under their belts already, Taiwan and Thailand are stepping up efforts to shake off the EU warnings surrounding illegal fishing in...
Court Urged To Get US Vessels Out Of Protected Zone
A ruling by NOAA made earlier this year to allow US tuna longliners to fish closer to the American Samoan coasthas riled the US territory’s government, which is now calling for the decision to...
Will The Innovative ZUNFLOAT Replace The Traditional FAD?
The satellite buoy manufacturer ZUNIBAL, in collaboration with the Spanish purse seiner company PEVASA, has developed the marine platform ZUNFLOAT for tuna fishing, looking to reduce the...
Mysterious Dongwon Seiner Crash In Seychelles
A Dongwon-owned tuna purse seiner which ran aground and became stranded earlier this week in the Seychelles has now been successfully rescued, according to local authorities, after several...
Manta SKJ Price Following Bangkok
Scarce whole round skipjack supply in Ecuador, which is said to have heavily impacted the national seiner fleet, is sending the Manta market price following in the tracks of Bangkok, which...
Wicked Tuna: Top TV Show Now Tuna Brand
Wicked Tuna, the hit TV show from National Geographic which averages 1.1 million viewers an episode, is now the title name of a range of frozen tuna products hitting the US market, launched in...
Staggered Shutdown Of StarKist Samoa?
While the resolution on the disrupted 2016 South Pacific Tuna Treaty has eased some worries in American Samoa, StarKist has reportedly cut workers’ hours, stating that a shortage of tuna raw...
Do You Think Tuna RFMOs Are Dominated By “White People”?
In a controversial statement earlier this week, tuna RFMOs have been accused of providing a platform for racial prejudice by the President of Taiwan’s Tuna Association of longliners, who...
The Premium Price Thai Packers Pay For MSC Skipjack
Despite a large amount of pole and line canned tuna still being sold without the MSC logo in the global marketplace, there is increasing emergence of retailers making commitments to bring more...
Banks Hired To Reshuffle Multi-Million Tuna Debt
After months of indecision, Mozambique’s government has finally decided to take a big step forward in addressing the nation’s controversial tuna bond debt, officially hiring the services of...
How Do They Do It? MSC’s Rigorous Methods Explained
Fast becoming an internationally recognized ecolabel, it’s a fairly safe bet to say that virtually anyone in the global seafood industry could likely describe the basic principle of an MSC...
Vietnam Reliant On Imports To Feed Local Demand
An official of the Vietnam Tuna Association has disclosed that 5,000 M/T of whole round tuna is imported by Vietnam just to meet local consumption demand every year. Chairman of the...