This year's first Veda for EPO tuna purse seiners with a fish-holding capacity of 182 M/T or more started on July 29. Of the 254 seiners, 123 have chosen to stop fishing during this closure...
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EU & Mauritania See Eye To Eye On A New Fisheries Partnership
The negotiations between the EU and Mauritania regarding a new sustainable fisheries agreement came to a successful end on July 28. Officials from both parties were able to agree on a new...
RFMOs’ Pacific Bluefin Group Raises Quota Despite Scientific Advice
The international joint working group of IATTC and WCPFC for Pacific bluefin (PBF) raised the quota for catches against scientific advice. As expected, environmental NGOs are extremely unhappy...
Moving Tuna Due To Climate Change Could Cost Pacific SIDS $140 Million Yearly
Pacific Island nations, especially 10 tuna-dependent ones, might be facing a drop of up to USD 140 million per year in revenue from tuna fishing access fees, as the fish might move eastwards...
Asdomar Products Are Proudly 100% Friend Of The Sea
The Italian preserved tuna brand Asdomar has revealed its 2020 sustainability report. The document states that the sustainability of the raw material (used in the label owned by Generale...
Tri Marine Closer To Yet Another DFAD MSC Certification
In the wave of WCPO MSC certified free school tuna fisheries extending the scope of their assessments to include purse seine drifting FADs (dFADs) catches, Tri Marine is closer to add yet...
Dongwon Innovates Further With Tuna Protein Bar
Korean tuna brand Dongwon has been a market leader for four decades and in order to keep current consumers happy and especially attract younger people, it has been stepping up its game by...
Three Canadian Retailers Making No Efforts On Tuna Sustainability
A Canadian NGO’s seafood sustainability progress report about the country's eight major retailers shows that they need to improve many of their commitments including choosing sustainably...
US Flagged Pacific Seiner Fleet Shrinking Rapidly
The US purse seine fleet has been shrinking and in 2020 fell to the lowest level in the past five years, states the latest data from NOAA. However, this decline appears to be continuing...
Callipo Showing Strong Revenue Growth In H1 2021
In the first half of the year, the Italian preserved tuna brand Callipo recorded an important turnover growth compared to the same period in 2020. This echoes last year's trend when the...
Cook Islands Keeps Waters Open For Spanish Seiners
The government of Cook Islands and the EU have agreed to extend their sustainable fisheries partnership agreement (SFPA) for another three years as the current one will expire soon. Under this...
Mozambique Fears “Litigation Chaos” Over USD 800 Mil Tuna Bonds Scandal
In the legal battle over the controversial debt scandal that involved USD 2 billion in loans (including over USD 800 million in tuna bonds) in Mozambique, the country's government is...
Maldives Wants UK To Grant 0% Duty For Its Tuna Products
Maldives hopes to export its tuna products duty-free to the UK as negotiations are ongoing between the two countries. On Tuesday, the country’s Minister of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and...
Biggest Publicly Traded Korean Tuna Firms’ Shares Surging During 2021
Korean tuna fishing companies have been strongly recovering from the massive blow that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt their stock values. The first signs of improvement appeared around March and...
OPAGAC Pushing Brussels Again On An EU Social Standard For Tuna Imports
The Organization of Associated Producers of Large Freezer Tuna vessels (OPAGAC) is pushing the Spanish social responsibility APR AENOR logo to be used as a social benchmark for the EU tuna...
Tri Marine’s Growing Production Becoming More Dependent On External Fleets
During 2020, the tuna production in processing facilities owned by Tri Marine International (TMI) showed healthy growth. Although catches by the company’s own vessels went down, this gap was...
Chinese Province Wants To Expand Its Already Large Seiner Fleet
The Fujian provincial government in China wants to expand its tuna fishing fleet and will be handing out subsidies to fishing companies. Under its “Eight Measures for the High-Quality...
Century Pacific’s CEO Among Asia’s Best
The CEO of the Philippines' tuna processing company Century Pacific, Ted Po, has been recognized by the Institutional Investor’s (II) Research 2021 All-Asia Executive Team buy-side survey. Po...
MSC’s Warning Of Suspension Of WCPO Tuna Fisheries Certifications Ironic
The lack of harvest control rules (HCRs) in the biggest tuna fishing ground in the world, the WCPO, is jeopardizing the MSC certification for 22 tuna fisheries in the region. This is despite...
Echebastar Wants To Expand Its Ultra-Frozen Tuna Supply
The Spanish fishing company, Echebastar, has been betting on ultra-freeze technology to keep its tuna catches as fresh as possible from sea to plate. The firm's seiners operating in the...