Most of the infringements by tuna fishing vessels in PNG have to do with underreporting rather than being illegal, according to National Fisheries Authority’s (NFA) Deputy Managing Director,...
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Vegetable Oil Price Explosion Hits Tuna Processors
Food prices around the world are soaring and hit their peak in October, with vegetable oils and grains pushing this bullish trend. The tuna sector is very susceptible to this situation since...
Thai Packers Recovering In Africa
Thai packers have been losing a big chunk of business this year. Shipments of canned tuna to most regions across the world dropped compared to last year, except for those to Africa. The trade...
Netherlands Drops Ambitious Plan On Traceability
On April 30, the Dutch government asked the Social and Economic Council (SER) for advice on the traceability of goods sold in the country, including tuna products, because it felt the current...
Conxemar Backs Down And Postpones Brussels Trade Show
The first edition of the Conxemar Brussel show was scheduled to take place next April in the same venue that for years hosted its main competitor, the Seafood Expo Global. However, the Spanish...
EU To Check On Vietnam’s Progress On Yellow Card Warnings
In the first quarter of 2022, the yellow card that the EU handed to Vietnam due to its poor efforts to fight IUU fishing could be removed. The country’s Deputy General Director of the...
Tuna Trade Used As Cover-Up For Money Laundering
Expensive tuna imports have been used to launder dirty money by crooks dealing with paper companies. Authorities in Colombia have just arrested four executives from family-owned companies that...
OPAGAC FAD Fleet Close To Getting EPO Juvenile YF Catch MSC Certified
The ambitions of a part of the Spanish-owned purse seiner fleet grouped under OPAGAC of getting MSC certifications simultaneously for its tuna catches in four oceans is close to becoming a...
EU Alerts: 11 Incidents Of Spanish Tuna With High E 300 Levels
October was a busy month for the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) given that there were 13 alerts put out pertaining to tuna products. Except for one warning from German...
Hawaii News Media Accuses Wespac of Favoritism
The Honolulu Civil Beat is once again after the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (Wespac - also formerly known as WPRFMC) saying that the organization “is using questionable...
EU Catch Distribution In IO and AO Shows New Decreasing Trend In Bigeye
The catch spatial distribution of the EU seiner fleet over the past 30 years in the Indian and Atlantic oceans shows relative stability. This is part of the conclusions of a paper presented at...
Ecuador’s Seiner Owners Want WCPO Fleets To Follow Same Rules As Them
A group of boat owners in Ecuador is advocating for the harmonization of the international fishing standards in the entire Pacific. Their association, Protuna, claims that many of the strict...
MSC Losing Ground In A Very Organic & Sustainably Oriented Austrian Market
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has released the latest report about Austria, a European nation with a strong focus on sustainability and the highest percentage of organically farmed...
Galapagos Reserve To Increase By 50% Under Debt For Conservation Swap
The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, announced that the country will increase the protected area of the Galapagos Marine Reserve by almost 50 percent. The initiative is a debt for...
Abidjan Port Expands Loading Capacity Of Reefer Containers
New fish loading equipment in the Abidjan port in Ivory Coast will help improve the process of placing whole round frozen tuna into containers. The global company, CEVA Logistics, which has...
Mozambican President Sued For Accepting Donations In Tuna Scandal
The ongoing Mozambican tuna scandal has a new twist. Privinvest, an Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder, has sued the current President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, in the High Court in London. The...
New Association To Improve Tuna Trade In Ghana
A new association that will help improve tuna trade in Ghana has been inaugurated and a Fisheries official has appealed to the new organization to help support the government’s fight to combat...
New Research Will Help Reduce Uncertainties In Bluefin Stock Assessment
New research will help the management of Atlantic bluefin and especially determine the mixing rate of the eastern and western species so that stock assessments can be improved. The National...
Logistic Challenges Make US Single Duty Quota Unattractive
Less than a year after container carrier congestions were reported, this situation is once again building up, creating a perfect storm in the tuna supply chain. Furthermore, the still...
Spanish Bankrupt Tuna Firm Finally Sold, Most Jobs Gone
A new ray of hope has settled on the future of the Spanish processing tuna company, Thenaisie Provoté. After declaring bankruptcy, the firm has been for sale for several months but deals had...