Mozambique’s public finance watchdog, the Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO), has demanded that Credit Suisse give the African nation a full debt relief of USD 2 billion. This is ten times the...
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Adam Brennan New Sustainability Director For Thai Union
Global tuna company Thai Union Group has appointed Adam Brennan as the new Director to head the company’s sustainability initiatives. He will be stepping into the role vacated by Darian...
Chef & Restaurant Owners Ask US Congress To Crack Down On IUU
More than 200 chefs and restaurant owners in the US have sent a letter to Congress asking for authorities to crack down on IUU fishing and forced labor abuses. They argue that they serve...
Ecuador Scored Slam Dunk In UK Market In 2020
The arrivals of canned tuna to the UK reached their lowest point in five years in 2020. This means that most suppliers lost part of their business in the country, but the Ecuadorians managed...
RD Switches To Eco-friendly Packaging For Dolly Tuna
RD Tuna Canners from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has committed to fighting plastic pollution. It will be replacing the plastic wrap around its Dolly Tuna brand's six-pack of canned tuna with a...
Kenyan Fishers Deny Being Abused On Chinese Vessels
A dozen Kenyan fishers have contradicted some of their colleagues’ comments regarding being mistreated aboard Chinese-flagged vessels which had left Mombasa to fish in the Indian Ocean in...
PNG-FIA Fishery MSC Cert Extended To Include Bigeye
SCS Global Services, the conformity assessment body of the PNG Fishing Industry Association (FIA) for MSC assessment has determined that the fishery’s scope extension to include bigeye should...
Can The Jelly-FAD Make FAD Fishing Sustainable?
For years, scientists have been working towards mitigating the environmental impact of drifting FADs (dFADs) given the sheer volume of these devices being used by the tuna purse seine...
Poor EPO Landings Steer Manta Skipjack Price Up
The first closure in the EPO ended at the beginning of October, which means that most seiners are now back at sea. Despite this, poor fishing continues to dominate which is driving the price...
OPAGAC Recommended For MSC Cert In IO & WCPO
It has been slightly over a year since the Spanish fishing group OPAGAC announced its intention to get simultaneous MSC certification in four oceans. And now, the certifier overseeing the...
Century Pacific Takes First Step Into Pet Food Biz
Century Pacific Food Inc (CNPF), the Filipino company well-known for its canned tuna brands such as Century Tuna, has decided to further diversify its portfolio and is venturing into the pet...
China Steps Up Effort In Data Compilation From Seiner Fleets
China is getting more serious about the compliance of its tuna seiners and longliners as well as other fishing vessels with more work being put towards data collection. The Shanghai Ocean...
Credit Suisse Fined Over USD 400 Million By US & UK Agencies Over Tuna Scandal
One Credit Suisse European unit pled guilty to wire fraud in a New York federal court on Tuesday. It will be paying a total of USD 475 million to both US and UK authorities for its role in the...
Will La Niña Soon Improve Catches In The EPO?
In parts of the EPO, the La Niña phenomenon is expected to become active in the last months of 2021. And in the zones where it has been already present, the event will evolve further. Although...
Calvo Aiming For Sustainable Goals While Sourcing Less Than 1% Of MSC Tuna
The Spanish Calvo Group has pledged to source all its tuna from sustainable and responsible origins by 2025. There is still a lot of work to be done as the latest annual Responsible Engagement...
10 Year Journey For Philippines Handline Fishery To Get MSC Cert
After a decade, the Philippines Small Scale Yellowfin Tuna Handline Fishery has become the first tuna fishery in the country to be MSC certified. The Marine Stewardship Council said that this...
IUU Fishing Bill Removes AIS Requirement For Small US Boats
The Illegal Fishing and Forced Labor Prevention Act was amended by a US congressional committee on October 13. Interestingly, the group approved that the prerequisite for boats longer than 50...
Unpacking Power Dynamics In IOTC May Lead To Better Decisions
Tuna RFMOs' decision-making has come under the spotlight especially in the past few years with various Commissions unable to reach consensus on several essential issues ranging from stock...
Iran Holds World’s Largest Number Of Canned Tuna Factories?
Canned tuna production has been ramping up in Iran as the demand from foreign nations is strongly increasing. Reports have noted that the nation hosts over 100 processing plants, which would...
Japan’s Pole-and-Line MSC Certification Recognized With Award
The Japan Sustainable Seafood Awards were given out during this year’s Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Symposium which took place from October 10 to 13. The Collaboration Award went to the Japan...