The production activities at processing plant Nanomar, a subsidiary of Grupomar, resumed the next day after a meeting with company's officials. A group of workers went on a one-day strike on...
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How Effective Are RFMO Measures When Technology Creep Threatens Stocks?
-Viewpoint- Is technology creep impacting tuna stocks across various oceans? Technological advances should have made vessels more efficient and increased their daily catch, but there is little...
Bluefin Farmers Begin Fishing Season In Atlantic Ocean
Spanish bluefin companies Ricardo Fuentes and Grupo Balfegó have started catching bluefins in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Ricardo Fuentes and Balfegó will catch 4,700 tons and...
Persistently Poor Catch Worries IO Seiner Owners And Drives Skipjack Price
The continuous too-low catch levels for months now and the voluntary fishing closure in Mauritius’s EEZ boosted the skipjack and yellowfin price in the Indian Ocean. The high surface water...
Actemsa Staring Down The Barrel Of Bankruptcy
Spanish tuna loins producer Actemsa will most probably be forced to go bankrupt. Creditors submitted a request to the Galician Commercial Court for “necessary bankruptcy” of Actemsa. The loins...
Spanish Researchers & Tuna Fleets Testing New Bio-Based FAD Platforms
Spanish marine technology company Zunibal has led the design of a new industrialized floating platform, which is part of a drifting FAD, using a compostable bio-based material. The firm is...
Demand For MSC Tuna In US Is Growing Dramatically
Americans’ preference for MSC tuna hit a five-year peak in 2024/25 with over 250 products, with the blue tick, being sold in US retail stores. The most MSC tuna (98 percent) consumed in the US...
Senegal Slapped With EU Yellow Card
The European Commission issued a yellow card to Senegal on Monday because it has found the African nation's work to combat IUU fishing is insufficient. European regulators pointed out...
Chinese Top Fisheries Official Accused Of Corruption
The Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tang Renjian, is being investigated for making illegal deals. Renjian, who has been overlooking China’s tuna and other seafood sector...
Study Looks At Tuna Movement In Indian And Pacific Oceans
A group of researchers from Indonesia and Japan conducted a study to analyze the movement of skipjack, yellowfin, albacore, and bigeye, in the waters around Indonesia. The result of the paper...
Lucrative Thai Pet Food Exports Rose Sharply In Q1
Thai pet food sales picked up by three-fourths in the first three months of 2024. After a collapse last year, it returned to 2022 levels at an average price higher than what was invoiced for...
Ecuador And Cook Islands Enter Into New Tuna Fisheries Agreement
Ecuador signed a new deal to establish diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, including inking a new fisheries agreement. This is expected to improve Ecuador’s tuna fishing activities in the...
Princes Group Inching Closer To Acquisition By Italian Company
Princes Group announced today that Italian-based food manufacturer Newlat Food S.p.A “intends” to acquire the entire Group from Mitsubishi Corporation for a whopping GBP 700 million (USD 892...
EU Welcomes IOTC Measures To Improve Sustainability
The European Commission stated that the 11 conservation and management measures agreed upon in the latest IOTC meeting will make tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean more sustainable. The...
Employees At Grupomar’s Cannery Go On Strike
Workers at Nanomar protested on Friday against a massive pay cut and demanded fair distribution of the company’s profits among them. The processing facility is a subsidiary of the Mexican tuna...
Pacific Fisheries Surveillance Brings Illegal Activities Of Ten Vessels To Light
The FFA-led monitoring and surveillance mission ‘Tui Moana’ identified ten vessels that commited potential infringements, including non-compliance with national controls and WCPFC conservation...
Astonishing EPO Skipjack Catch Reported In Q1
Tuna fishing vessels had a good start in the first three months of this year as nearly a quarter more fish was landed in EPO ports, compared to last year's Q1. This can be credited to the...
Sustainability Needs Accountability – Why It Is Time For The Equal Access Principles
- Sponsored Content - Seafood marketers, processors, and suppliers face ever-increasing pressure to provide sustainable seafood to their consumers. However, global fisheries management systems...
PNG Ports Record Massive Transshipments In April
The transshipments in PNA ports rose by 22 percent despite a a slight drop in total catches in the WCPO last month. Papua New Guinea (PNG) ports doubled their transshipments last month...
Mauritius Formally Agrees To Cut Harmful Subsidies
Mauritius has decided not to provide subsidies to harmful fisheries by joining the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. It deposited its “instrument of...