PNA members and Tokelau have agreed on the registration and tracking of electronic buoys attached to drifting fish aggregating devices (DFADs), effective from January 1 next year. The parties...
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Albacora’s President Latxaga Wins Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
On April 26, Iñaki Latxaga, President and Founder of Albacora, was given the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2021 for the northern area of Spain. Luisa Latxaga received the plaque on behalf of...
Global MSC Tuna Sales Doubled In Five Years
On World Tuna Day, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has forecasted a sharp growth in the volume of sustainable tuna sold to consumers. Today, the Council announced that it foresees sales...
The World Celebrates Tuna Day
Today is World Tuna Day, the time to celebrate the most commercial fish, which is a source of food for millions across the globe. One of the biggest topics that companies, NGOs, and...
Major Global Tuna Highlights April 2022
April continued to be a busy month for the tuna industry with raw material prices across the world’s ports increasing as well as other key commodities. The cost of fuel slightly decreased for...
Albacore Whole Rounds Demand From EU Canners Hit 5-Year Low
EU processors imported the lowest volume of albacore whole rounds in five years, which was influenced by a massive drop in purchases of raw material from EU-flagged vessels. The US fleet’s...
NGOs Call For Downgrading Taiwan To Tier 2
US non-profits have called on the American authorities to bump down Taiwan in the rankings of the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for forced labor issues in its distant water...
Beta Testing Of New GDST Tool For Traceability Data Sharing Completed
Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) has announced that it has successfully completed the first round of beta testing an IT tool that enables automatic computer-to-computer sharing...
Ecuador Joins Latin American Tuna Groups To Recycle Fishing Nets
Several tuna groups in Latin America are working together for a net recycling project (Net Positiva) aiming to mitigate the impact of ghost gear in the oceans. Ecuador will soon be joining the...
Annual Report Shows 26 Percent Of FIA’s MSC Catch Processed Locally
The Fishing Industry Association (FIA) of PNG has revealed that its members captured 123,266 M/T of MSC certified tropical tuna in 2021, according to its annual report published last week. The...
Pacifical Partners Urge Adoption Of Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard In WCPO
Partners of Pacifical have called for the Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS), centering around crew rights and their safety, to be adopted in their MSC tuna supply chain. They...
Marshall Islands Moves For Greater Transparency, Seiner Activity Now Public
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has stepped up its efforts towards more transparency for its tuna fishing fleet. It has committed to sharing its vessel monitoring system (VMS) data on the...
Seafood Expo Global Barcelona Ends Successfully
Attendees at the three-day Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona welcomed the overall good atmosphere of the well-organized event. After two years of missing face-to-face meetings due to the global...
Tri Marine Celebrates 50 Years In Tuna Business
Global tuna company Tri Marine will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It was established in 1972 as an Italian government-owned tuna supplier based in Singapore to source...
Spanish Seiners Invest In Reduction Of Bycatch
Spanish fishing group OPAGAC-AGAC began this year with four new projects that contribute to the sustainability of the tuna fleets fishing in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. In the...
FCF Cert Scope Extension Includes All Taiwan-Flagged Seiners
The conformity assessment body, SCS Global, recently announced a scope extension for the Western Pacific Sustainable Tuna Alliance (WPSTA). The fishery holds a certification for skipjack and...
Itochu Corporation Inches Closer To MSC Certification
The Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) has released the Public Comment Draft Report for Japanese trader Itochu Corporation for its MSC assessment in WCPO. The SI WCPO Skipjack and Yellowfin Tuna...
Thai Union Tops Index On Social Responsibility
Thai Union Group has topped a global index of the top 30 most influential seafood companies that were ranked for their efforts on social responsibility, environmental sustainability,...
OPAGAC’s IO Objection Mostly Refused, Atlantic Cert Goes To Adjudication
The outcome of the objection hearing concerning the MSC certification of the Spanish fishery OPAGAC in the Indian Ocean (IO) has been published. The independent adjudicator found that most of...
Seafood Expo Global 2022 Begins In Barcelona
After a delay of two years, the Seafood Expo Global started today for its first edition in Barcelona. For three days until April 28, around 1,560 exhibitors from 76 countries are present...