In the EU nation of Malta, a former top fisheries official has been receiving her salary in full for the past two and a half years even after having been suspended. Andreina Fenech Farrugia...
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Vaccinations In Three Major Asian Processing Nations Still Very Limited
As the tuna industry around the world has embedded COVID-19 measures into its protocols, vaccinations have been rolling out for months. Some producing and fishing nations have been making more...
Azores Tuna Fishers Take Part In Ghost Gear Removal Contest
Small-scale tuna fishers in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, are taking part in a ghost gear retrieval competition, the first of its kind in the world. The contest runs from June...
US Troll Albacore Catches Rise Sharply In 2020
The US longline fleet landed fewer catches in 2020 while the country’s trollers targeting albacore managed to increase their captures by nearly 120 percent year-on-year. According to the...
Bumble Bee Appoints New Senior Business Strategy Exec
US tuna company Bumble Bee Seafood has hired consumer and retail brands veteran, Connie Cooper Shepherd, for its senior leadership team. Shepherd joined Bumble Bee this month and holds the...
TU Joins Governmental COVID Aid: Blue Flag Scheme
Thai Union Group has announced it will help inhabitants who suffer from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its SEALECT brand canned tuna chili paste and mackerel in tomato sauce are available at...
StarKist’s Marketing Chief Leaves To Join Chicken Of The Sea
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of StarKist, Andy Mecs, recently left his role to join a competing tuna company, Thai Union’s Tri-Union Seafoods which operates under the Chicken of the Sea...
Is Sajo Group Chair Desperately Trying To Keep Control?
On August 10, Sajo Group’s Chairman, Joo Jin-Woo, lent six percent of his 14.24 percent equity in Sajo Industries equally to two other businesses outside the firm. Simultaneously, he called an...
June WCPO Carrier Volume To Bangkok And GenSan Up
Transshipments of whole round frozen tuna in the WCPO slightly recovered in June, while seiners’ overall catches were down that month. As operations kept moving eastwards, carrier activity in...
US Cold Smoked Tuna Processor Warned Over Health Violations
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently sent a warning letter to a tuna and seafood processor in New York state for the presence of salmonella in some of its cold-smoked tuna. The...
Scientists To Test More Biodegradable DFADs In WCPO
The world’s largest tuna fishery in the world is the WCPO and so it is unsurprising that it has the highest number of drifting FADs (dFADs) deployed or redeployed yearly. Several scientists...
John West Pushes Tuna’s Health Properties In New Brand Strategy
The UK’s canned tuna leader, John West, has announced a new brand position strategy, strapline, and visual identity. Under the idea ‘Strength For Life’, the company is looking to drive brand...
Whole Round Shipments From Micronesia & Nauru Increasing In Bangkok
Whole round tuna suppliers to Bangkok increased their deliveries across the board. Among the largest origins, only one saw its sales in the port go down during the first half of the year....
French Court Rules In Favor Of Fairer Tuna Allocation To Small-Scale Fishers
After four years, an administrative court in Southern France has ruled that the country’s small-scale fishers deserve a fairer allocation for their tuna quotas. The Professional Union of Small...
Jealsa Plant Inferno Caused EUR 48 Million In Damages
Spain’s largest processing firm, Jealsa, suffered a massive fire that destroyed one-third of its main plant in the city of Boiro. The company revealed that the damages...
Japan’s Tuna Sector Fighting Negative Image To Recruit Young Crew
Japan’s fisheries are using social media to attract more young people to tuna fishing companies. Many of them view distant water tuna fishing jobs as hard, dirty, and dangerous. Working on...
Study: Slow Uptake Of MSC And Low Consumer Interest In Japan
There is a slow uptake of MSC certified tuna and other seafood products in Japan because of the country’s co-management institutions, and complex distribution networks, states a study. Also,...
Kiribati & Eastern Zones Best Skipjack Catches In June
Captains in the WCPO continued to favor waters in the Eastern zone within the PNA region during June, particularly Kiribati's EEZ, one of the most tuna-rich areas...
Mexico In NOAA’s List Of IUU Fishing Countries
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has called out seven nations for their engagement in IUU fishing activities and 29 countries for having insufficient regulatory...
Bolton To Break Into US Premium Tuna Segment With Wild Planet Acquisition?
Reports have started to circulate about the Italian high-quality consumer goods firm Bolton Group attempting to break into the US market by purchasing Wild...