The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting an extensive survey to understand the mercury levels in seafood available to American consumers. It is seeking a contractor to test...
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Indonesian Tuna Fishermen Rescued After Eight Days At Sea
Two artisanal fishermen from a village near Bima city were rescued off the coast of South Sulawesi Islands after being declared missing for eight days. The 62-year-old Mahmudi and 56-year-old...
African Crew Strike Cripples French And Spanish Seiners Operations
The operations of French and Spanish seiners fishing in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were hit by a strike of Senegal and Ivory Coast crew members on June 5. Two Unions had called for the...
WCPO MSC Assessment Hints Close Ties Between Sajo Fisheries And Kiribati
The second MSC certification for Itochu Corporation is inching closer to achievement. The TTKV (Chinese Taipei, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu) WCPO skipjack and yellowfin purse seine fishery's...
Conservas Garavilla Raises MSC Share To 24% Of Tuna Sales
Around one-quarter of the tuna raw material used by Spanish processor Conservas Garavilla in 2022 came from an MSC-certified fishery. More than half of the annual raw material supply was...
52-Day Tuna Gillnet Ban Effect In Southern India Disputed
The annual 52-day fishing ban has begun in the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala. Commercial vessels like gillnetters and trollers, used for catching tuna, are not allowed to fish during...
EPO Ocean Surface Heating Up, End Of A Long La Niña?
Waters in the EPO have been registering higher temperatures in the last few weeks, paving the way to the El Niño phenomenon, and marking the end of a long running La Niña event. The conditions...
Atunlo Sets Up New Tuna Oil Production Line
Spanish processing firm Atunlo is gearing up to produce oil for human consumption from tuna heads. The product will be exported to Japan through the multinational company Nissui. The new...
Thousands Of Undetermined Species At Risk From Deep-Sea Mining
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean is home to thousands of still undetermined species, the lowest in the food supply chain of tuna and other fish, says a recent study. They...
Filipino MSC Fishers Fear VMS Suspensions Affect EU Exports
Tuna fishers in the Philippines are at loggerheads with one another and officials over the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 266, which implements vessel monitoring measures (VMM). In...
Bangkok Skipjack Trading In Doldrums, Slight Rise In Price
The price for skipjack in benchmark processing hub Bangkok has increased slightly and trading continues to be sluggish. Just over a week after Atuna reported that frozen whole rounds were sold...
Purse Seiner ‘Atlántico’ Finds Its Graveyard
Tuna seiner ‘Atlántico’ has been towed to its final destination to be scrapped at the port of El Mussel in Gijón, Spain, after being moored for eight years in Vigo. The decision was...
Tuna Alliance Albacore Longline Fishery In Its Final Stage Of MSC Certification
Tuna Alliance albacore longline fishery in the Atlantic meets the minimum requirements for being MSC certified, says the CAB, SCS Global Services. The Final Draft Report was published on the...
Thai Canners Q1 WR Trade Stable, Business With IO Seiners Nosedived
Thailand’s canneries bought nearly the same volume of frozen whole round tuna in the first three months of the year compared to 2022. The Maldives, Taiwan, Korea, and Nauru fleets made up for...
The World Celebrates Oceans Day
Today, World Oceans Day is celebrated across the globe. In 2008, the United Nations officially designated June 8 to raise awareness of the importance of oceans and the day has been observed...
Will American Canned Tuna Consumption Recover From 2021 Drop?
The recently published National Fisheries Institute (NFI) report indicated that US canned tuna consumption fell drastically by 27 percent despite the product being the third most-eaten seafood...
US Canned Tuna Consumption Suffered A 27 Percent Blow In 2021
Americans ate a lot more seafood in 2021, but their interest in canned tuna nose dived by 27 percent. The National Institute of Fisheries (NFI) revealed these dramatic statistics in its...
New Pew Fisheries Director Wants Market Involvement In Tuna Management
“The timing was brilliant for me,” said Tom Pickerell, the new Director of International Fisheries at the Pew Charitable Trusts about his move into the role in mid-April. He had previously...
FiTI Demands Pacific Islands Tuna Fisheries Improve Transparency
A recent report published by the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) indicates the need for more fisheries transparency in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), especially tuna-trade...
Kiribati Silent On Sun Flower 7 Activities In Its EEZ
On June 5, South Korea sent a letter to the WCPFC regarding the port denial of the ‘Sun Flower 7’ by Thailand in March. Not long after they penalized this carrier, the vessel was once again...