Ghana tuna exports to the UK will continue to enjoy a zero percent import tariff after the country's exit from the EU became official last January. This is after a new trade deal was...
News
IBL Seafood: Sustainability Is An Existential Issue For Mauritius
Preserving tuna stocks, particularly yellowfin, is imperative for Mauritius as a great part of its income and employment depend on this sector. However, the industry is at risk as this species...
Readers Split On Seiners Yellowfin Quota Reduction
Atuna readers definitely want the purse seiners in the Indian Ocean to reduce their yellowfin catches but they are currently split down the middle about the amount that it should be. We asked...
Princes Asks For Yellowfin Cut Ahead Of IOTC Meeting
Just ahead of the IOTC Special Session on yellowfin, the Princes Group today reaffirmed its support for a 20 percent reduction in yellowfin catches. Last October, the UK-based international...
Outrage Over Deal To ‘Exchange’ National Debt For Giving Up Galapagos Tuna Fishing
International environmentalists are allegedly behind the controversial proposal to extend the Galapagos reserve, which has been strongly opposed by tuna and other seafood fishers in Ecuador....
Study: Can Skipjack Protein Help Humans With Colon Diseases?
A new study by Chinese scientists has shown that bioactive peptides (BP), which are fragments of protein, derived from skipjack can improve the protective layer in the intestines of laboratory...
Maldives Skipjack Exports Skyrocketed, While Yellowfin Shrank In Q4 2020
Processing companies in the Maldives more than doubled their skipjack purchases during the last quarter of 2020 compared to the same period the previous year. This was reflected in the...
WCPFC Starting On Better Labor Standards For Tuna Crews
Members of the WCPFC are stepping up their efforts in making changes to labor practices for crews aboard tuna fishing vessels. On Monday, the WCPFC sent a circular stating that New Zealand and...
US Seafood Organization Wants Regulators To Enforce ‘Glazing’ Rules
The US needs its authorities to better enforce the regulation for glazing in the tuna and seafood industry, expressed a seafood trading body in the country. Recently, John Connelly, President...
Controversy: IOTC Assigning Yellowfin Quota To IUU Gillnet Fleets?
After concerns about the sustainability and impact of large-scale driftnets were brought to IOTC's attention, the RFMO installed a ban on this fishing equipment for the Indian Ocean (IO) high...
SKJ1.8:BKK Trade Shifts Gears & Accelerates Rapidly
A few days after saying that the Bangkok skipjack market was balancing between global factor demands, it has rapidly with a price surge. Higher global fuel costs and low catches have pushed...
EU Alerts: Italian Authorities Spot High E 300 Levels Once Again
In good news, there were few tuna-related complaints during February, announced the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). Only two issues were brought to the attention of this EU body,...
MSC Extends Derogations For Another Year
Last Friday, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced that it will be continuing with some of its measures that were put in place a year ago due to the global pandemic. It will extend...
Tesco Pledges To Go 100% MSC Tuna By 2025
UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, announced today that it will be going for 100 percent MSC certification for all its tuna segments by 2025. This is a bold statement given that the company has...
Major Global Tuna Highlights February 2021
From US fast-food restaurant chain Subway taking to social media to fight against a “baseless” lawsuit to the Indonesia’s pole-and-line fishery’s MSC certification being called into question,...
UK Retailers Push Strongly For Sustainable Tuna, But Sharply Reduce MSC Share
Despite UK retailers calling for more sustainable tuna for the past 10 years, the volume of MSC tuna being sold in the UK and Ireland has been on the decline over the past two years....
Century Pacific’s Tuna Plant Saves Millions Of Liters Of Water
Philippine’s leading tuna firm, Century Pacific Food, announced that during 2020 it found a way to reduce its tuna facility's freshwater consumption by as much as 30 percent. In a press...
Italians Increased Yellowfin Loins Trade With Indonesians In 2020
Italian importers not only bought the highest volume of pre-cooked loins in 2020 of the past five years but also the most amount of yellowfin product during this period. According to Atuna...
Legality Of FADs For Indo Pole-And-Line Fishery Remains Up In The Air
A story discussing the legality of the use of FADs by the Indonesian pole-and-line fishery was recently published by Atuna. According to the country’s law, this equipment was not listed as...
How Important Is Fishing Within The Galapagos To The Ecuadorian Fleet Really?
Besides the Eastern Pacific Ocean's high seas, the waters of the Galapagos Islands are a crucial fishing ground for the Ecuadorian tuna fleet. In the past couple of months,...