The world’s largest canned tuna producing company, Thai Union, has introduced a new code of conduct aiming to achieve higher levels of accountability and transparency throughout its supply...
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First Australian Tuna For Chinese Market
The first batch of southern bluefin tuna from Port Lincoln, Australia has arrived in China after a contract was signed earlier in the year by Australian fishing company Stehr Group. Close to...
WWF “Unlikely” To Block Maldives P&L Recertification
With the Echebastar fishery in Spain set to fail its MSC certification assessment following formal objections from WWF and the IPNLF regarding poor management and overfishing, questions have...
Report: Thai Brands Fail Basic Sustainability Standards
Fourteen brands of canned tuna on the Thai market evaluated in a recent report have failed to meet basic sustainability, traceability and equity standards, according to Greenpeace. The NGO...
WCPFC Ignores Calls For Transshipment Ban
A week-long meeting of the WCPFC ended on Tuesday no further forward in addressing the issues of illegal tuna transshipment by longliners occurring in the region. It is reported that a...
Lawyer: US Tuna Market Is “An Oligopoly”
It’s common knowledge within the industry that the US canned tuna market is dominated by three big players, and with allegations of price fixing between them increasing, one US lawyer involved...
Spanish Seiner Sinks Off Abidjan
A Belizean-flagged tuna purse seiner under the name ‘Txori Urdin’ sank earlier this week in the Gulf of Guinea, after water started leaking into the boat. After the leak was discovered, the...
British Kids Rarely Missing Oppor-Tuna-Ties
Tuna remains one of the top fish consumed by children in the UK, with 80 percent of youngsters aged between 7 and 11 either having tasted it at least once or eating it on a regular basis,...
FRINSA Winner In Spain’s Tuna Sustainability Rating
Frinsa has come out on top this week as Greenpeace released the updated version of their Spanish Tuna Guide, naming the Galician tuna canner as the most sustainable and eco-friendly brand on...
Indian Ocean Tuna Nations Going The PNA Way?
Over a year after signing the original Maputo Declaration in Mozambique, Tanzania has made increasingly big strides in adopting more than 50 percent of the conditions agreed on, which aim to...
Latin America’s Largest Tuna Fleet
Recent numbers revealed by Mexico-based fishing company Pesca Azteca, show that its annual tuna catches can reach upwards of 80,000 M/T, making it the largest individual tuna fleet in the...
New Marine Reserve Another Punch For Albacore Operators?
The creation of the world’s third-largest protected marine area, which was newly announced on Monday, has been criticized as “short sighted” by one of the region’s major albacore tuna industry...
American Samoan Production Cost Expected To Rise
A deal has been made that will likely see the American Samoan minimum hourly wage increase this week, but the rise will be less than the initial 50 cents set. Tuna cannery workers in the...
Is StarKist The Price-Fixing Whistleblower?
Now mounting up to a large pile of lawsuits, speculation strengthens that a whistleblower is involved in the recent flurry of price-fixing complaints filed against the US Big 3 tuna brands....
The EU’s Cheapest Can Of Tuna, And It’s P+L
Pole and line caught canned tuna, a sustainably marketed product that has commonly been sold with a premium price tag, has now become a mainstream product in the UK and is being sold in this...
Thai Union Scores High On Sustainability Assessment
For the second consecutive year, Thai Union (TU) has been selected for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), after upping its score by 67 percent in assessment. Improved...
Favorite Feeding Spots Of Tuna Discovered
Scientists in America have now devised a way in which the internal temperature of wild tuna can be measured, allowing researchers to identify the Pacific bluefin’s favored feeding spots along...
Buehs Hit By Falling Tuna Exports
Falling tuna prices have hit export revenues for Ecuadorian processor, Grupo Buehs, driving the company to expand in its local market through franchises. The firm, which catches around 18,000...
Bigeye Quota Shift To Go To US Court
The decision on whether or not the Hawaiian longline fleet will be allowed to attribute some of its bigeye tuna catch to US territories will soon be made in US court, and environmentalists...
Echebastar Seiner Suffers Explosion And Sinking
More bad luck has hit the Echebastar fishing fleet recently as one of their tuna purse seiners suffered an explosion, and subsequently sank over the weekend, around 300 miles north of the...