March was a very active month for the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) as a total of 11 tuna-related complaints were brought to it by EU officials. The issues ranged from improper...
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IOTC Members Owe Millions Of Dollars To The RFMO
Many nation members of IOTC have yet to pay their financial contributions which could potentially result in the RFMO being forced to cut its operations. Approximately 42 percent of the 2021...
Will Netflix Ocean Documentary Put People Off Tuna?
The tuna industry has been abuzz with the news of Netflix’s Seaspiracy documentary, a film about how the fishing sectors have allegedly severely affected the health of oceans and that there is...
Readers Prefer Human Observers Over E-Monitoring
Conversations about e-monitoring on board tuna vessels have been brought to the forefront, especially over the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing many human observers from...
Pesca Azteca Assessing Losses After Seiner’s Fire
The reason why the purse seine ‘Clipperton’ caught fire last Monday at a Mexican port is still being investigated. But its owner, Pesca Azteca, is confident that the vessel will be able to...
Seaspiracy One-Sided And Filled With Misinformation, Fake News?
The tuna and fishing industry is not the only one that has been reacting to the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, which basically tells people to stop eating seafood altogether if they want to...
Seiners Head To PNG Waters For Excellent Skipjack Catches
Overall tuna tonnages taken from the WCPO fell for the second month in a row since the year began because less fishing effort was made in PNA waters. With this decline in catches,...
Solomon Tuna Traders Complain Of Unfair Fees In Gizo To Sell Fish
Solomon Islands tuna traders are complaining about the high fees that the government has them paying for selling their fish in the Gizo Fish Market. They say that authorities need to consider...
Pesca Azteca’s Vessel Catches Fire Before Fishing Trip
A purse seiner caught fire while docked at a port in Mexico on Monday. The incident happened as the vessel, owned by Pesca Azteca, was being prepared for its next tuna fishing trip. The...
China’s Whole Round Exports Thrived During The COVID-19 Pandemic
China’s exports of whole round frozen tuna were extremely strong at the beginning of 2020, but by the second half of the year had receded substantially and positioned at a year-on-year...
Tuna Production In China Jumps By 150% In 8 Years
China’s tuna and other offshore fisheries have been steadily growing over the years and in 2019 managed to hit the peak in terms of production. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and...
Dip In WCPO Skipjack Catches, Mature Yellowfin Supply Crashes
Thai processing plants can expect fewer volumes of skipjack in the coming weeks as data from the PNA region shows that WCPO purse seiners made less effort and reduced their tuna catches in...
Seaspiracy’s Dolphin Safe Interviewee Claims Documentary Took His Words Out Of Context
The Netflix documentary Seaspiracy had Mark Palmer from the Earth Island Institute (EII) admitting on camera that the Dolphin Safe program which is run by the NGO has no way to guarantee the...
US Gets Rid Of High-Risk Fishing Equipment For Sharks
The use of wire leaders in tuna longlining represents high-risk to sharks which are unable to bite through it when they become hooked. The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (WPFMC)...
Kenyan Officials In Conflict Over Building Tuna Port
A spat has broken out between the Kenyan Port Authority (KPA) and a private organization that will be building a multi-billion dollar fishing port, which would include tuna landings in the...
Are There Microplastics In Canned Tuna?
How much microplastic is in our food, especially in the fish we consume? The problem of these contaminants is an emerging field of study and there is not yet a lot of data available and their...
New Zealand Keeps Holding Fishers Accountable For Not Using Proper Equipment
New Zealand continues to be an example of holding fishermen accountable for their bycatch. A new court ruling has penalized the captain of a tuna longliner for not using the mandatory...
Flag States Protecting IUU Activities By Their Own Fleets?
The issue of IUU fishing is one that is widely discussed in the tuna and seafood industry. It is a problem that could lead to the exhaustion of the very resource the sector profits from as...
New 2025 Sustainability Tuna Pledge A Good Move?
Companies and other stakeholders involved in the tuna sector’s supply chain have yet another sustainability commitment to look into. Three groups behind the Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration...
Dongwon Tuna Stew Brand Winning Korean Market
The Korean company Dongwon F&B launched a new brand a year ago, Yangban, which offers soups and stews containing tuna and other seafoods. During this short time span, the label has managed...