Ecuadorian Real tuna brand, owned by Nirsa, has come up with an interesting marketing strategy that is turning heads on social media. Four different stylized campaigns can be seen in...
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ICCAT Bigeye TAC May Be Raised
Today, the ICCAT 23rd Special Commission Meeting in Portugal enters its last day after eight days of presentations, discussions, and negotiations. The official document with the conclusions of...
Bangkok Skipjack Market Waits For What Is To Come
A crisis in the Philippine tuna business and the expectation of larger skipjack quantities to arrive in Bangkok have perpetuated reluctance in the tuna trade among buyers and purse seine...
Spanish Processor Stopped Operations After Complaint Over Tuna
Spanish processor Coinba is set to resume operations after it had to stop production due to a health alert issued in Italy last week. This followed a complaint registered against a...
Pacific Islands Continue Increasing Thai Canned Tuna Imports
Pacific Island nations continued to increase their buying of canned tuna from Thai processors this year. In the first nine months, they raised their imports by over 40 percent compared to last...
Europêche And Orthongel Denounce “Militant NGOs” Disinformation Campaign
Europêche and Orthongel have hit back at activist NGOs, Bloom and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), for their "slanderous remarks" over Anne-France Mattlet. Since March, she is the Director...
Seiners Switch Off AIS To Hide From Pirates
A new study examined the intentional disabling of Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) in commercial fisheries. This often happened in four hot spots near the EEZs of West African nations,...
Sunflower & Soy Oil Prices Continue Sliding
Canned tuna processors can rejoice that edible oil prices, especially soy and sunflower, have dropped by a large percentage over the past couple of months. The latest data for vegetable oils...
EU To Review Ecuador’s Yellow Card In Two Weeks’ Time
Ecuador has been working relentlessly to improve its fisheries management and have its EU yellow card lifted (assigned in October 2019). The EU is set to carry out a new review within two...
Frinsa Eyeing Tuna Canning Operations In Florida
Spanish fish and meat canning company Frinsa will begin operations at Lakeland, Florida. The exact dates have not yet been confirmed and the firm is currently in talks with the Lakeland...
Bloom Accuses EU Fishing Organizations Of Influencing Fisheries Negotiation
French environmental NGO, BLOOM, and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) have formally complained to EU authorities over the appointment of Anne-France Mattlet in European...
EU Continues Waiving Origin Rule For 8,000 M/T Of Canned Tuna From Africa
Authorities in Brussels have given the green light to continue to waive the rules of origin for canned tuna and tuna loins from the Eastern and Southern Africa States (ESA) into the EU. This...
OPAGAC Pushes ICCAT To Strictly Monitor Asian Fleets
OPAGAC has called out Asian fleets for fishing extensively in Atlantic waters. They raised this issue at the RFMO annual Commission meeting taking place in Portugal. The group representing...
Brazilian Canners To Rely More On Baitboats
Brazil's artisanal vessels were highly successful when it came to catching tuna but there was much less purse seine activity last year. Baitboats caught the most skipjack compared to any other...
Malta’s 2021 Tuna Farming Operating Profit Shows Improvement
Malta's National Statistics Office (NSO) released a study highlighting the country's total turnover for aquaculture and tuna farming industries amounting to EUR 224.9 million in 2021. Nearly...
World’s Largest Purse Seiner Sails Under Seychelles Flag
Purse seiners are extensively used for commercial fishing around the world. However, over the past couple of years, their numbers have decreased due to vessel de-listings by RFMOs. In a 2021...
ICCAT Meeting Starts With SCRS Stock Status Report
The ICCAT 23rd Special Commission Meeting in Portugal kicked off on November 14 with a playful protest calling on support for the EU’s proposal to save mako sharks. The Standing Committee on...
French IO Seiners Drastically Reduced Yellowfin Free School Catches
The French purse seiner fleet was known for its free school yellowfin catch in the Indian Ocean. However, an overview of the fleet’s catches from 1981 to 2021 shows that since 2009, the...
WCPFC Members Ignore Voice Of The Market On Harvest Control Rules
The WCPFC19 is all set to begin in over a week and over 25 delegate countries are expected to participate. But at the roundtable meeting organized by the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) in Danang,...
Thai Union Optimistic But Alternative Proteins Segment No “Golden Goose”
Thai Union is optimistic about the plant-based sector but its Head of Global Business Development of Seafood Alternatives, Gerben Kamps, warned that caution is necessary as the segment is not...