Rio Grande Do Norte in Brazil has one of the largest tuna fishing sectors in the country. But several gaps need to be addressed so that it can thrive and generate more revenue for the national...
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Spanish Tuna Vessels Seeking Foreign Crew Want Relaxation Of Rules
Spanish tuna and other fishing companies are seeking foreign crew to work on their vessels due to the current lack of manpower. Shipowner's associations and workers' commissions pointed out...
Europêche Applauds Tighter Fishing Regulations For Non-EU Nations
Europêche, the voice of the European fishing industry, has welcomed the European Commission’s (EC) proposal designed to combat unsustainable tuna and other seafood fishing practices by non-EU...
WCPO Purse Seiners Mainly Netted Medium-Sized Skipjack In 2023
Purse seiners fishing in the WCPO caught larger tuna in the eastern part of the ocean in 2023. In terms of skipjack, vessels mainly netted medium-sized fish while slightly larger fish were...
Sealect And Sesame Street To Promote Tuna Consumption Among Thai Kids
Thai-Union-owned Sealect tuna brand is collaborating with the makers of the American television series Sesame Street to launch three varieties of limited-edition lithographed cans with the...
Thai Canners Massively Increased WR Purchase From Oceanian Seiners In H1
The purchase of frozen whole rounds by Thai canners from Oceanian purse seine fleets witnessed a massive hike in the first half of 2024, a five-year-high. This was driven by the large...
World Leaders Assert Role Of Tuna In Global Nutrition And Livelihoods
Leaders at the recently held G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting in Brazil acknowledged the need to prioritize the role of tuna and other fisheries and aquaculture in global nutrition and...
Solomon Islands Bina Harbor Project Breaking Ground?
The Solomon Islands government approved a business plan for the project that assumes a USD 202 million investment for port infrastructures and utilities such as water and power supply....
French Seafood Group Sells Majority Stake To Investor
Processor Réunimer - Pêcherie de Sud has found a financier in French Hivest Capital Partners to accelerate its external growth and develop the company’s position. The investment gives the...
EU Pushes For Tighter Tuna Fishing Regulations For Third-World Countries
The EU Commission has proposed a revision of the tools designed to address unsustainable fishing practices by non-EU countries on tuna and other fish stocks. It aims to improve the clarity and...
John West UK Rolls Out Its Patented Ecotwist Cans
John West UK’s eco-friendly ‘Ecotwist’ cans launched earlier this year are now available in major UK retail stores. The products, launched in June, were initially only available with retailer...
Hawaiian Longliners Caught More Tuna In 2023 But Revenue Dropped
Hawaii fisheries showed a slight increase in tuna catches compared to 2022, but the ex-vessel revenue declined. The recently released Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council...
Ecuadorian Tuna Fishery Scripts History By Receiving Fair Trade Certification
A group of Ecuadorian pole-and-line fishers, the Asociacion Caneros de Manta, was awarded an international Fair Trade Certification for their tuna catches last month. It is the first...
Rio Grande Do Norte High-Quality Tuna Exports Dropped In H1
Rio Grande do Norte is the third largest tuna exporting state in Brazil. In the first six months of this year, companies in this region shipped 456.65 tons of sashimi quality products at a...
Calls For Regulation Grow As Faux Thon Crisis Deepens
Some Ivory Coast’s fishing organizations sounded the alarm last week because the faux thon sector is in a critical situation. The presidential decree to limit prices was not followed up...
Bangkok Skipjack Price Climbs Slightly
Has the Bangkok skipjack price bottomed out? With high supply and fair demand, tuna value has been continuously falling for the past four months. Now, it appears that Thai processors are...
American Samoa Longliners Experienced Reduced Tuna Landings In 2023
The landings of American Samoa-flagged longliner albacore catches, its main target species, witnessed a drop in 2023 thus affecting the island nation’s fishing revenue. Vessels took fewer...
Determined Mako Shark Sticks To Tuna And Other Social Media Stories
The video of a mako shark biting into a tuna and not letting it go while fishers try to bring it onboard is turning heads on YouTube. The incident that happened off the coast of San Diego was...
Skipjack Price In Manta Rises As Fishing Slows Down
Upward pressure in the market has driven the skipjack price in the Manta processing hub. Tuna supply to plants remains steady. Sources have confirmed that contracts for skipjack raw material...
New Japanese Inshore Tuna Seiner Launched
A newly built inshore purse seiner in Japan, the ‘Daihachi Koyo Maru’ departed from the port of Sakaiminato City last week. It has improved hull stability and speed compared to an older vessel...