Maldives’ major seafood exports association has said that the country’s pole-and-line and handline fishery reduced its yellowfin catches by five times the IOTC requirement last year, just as...
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Chinese Fishing Companies’ Investors Losing Money In Stock Market
In August, Chinese tuna vessel operator CNFC Overseas Fisheries reached its highest stock value since early 2018. However, the elevated level did not last long and had already started to...
Thai Packers Reconquer Swedish Business From Princes Mauritius
While neighboring Northern countries passively cut down their imports, Sweden displayed a significantly higher level of trading activity on canned tuna in the first half of 2020 (H1) compared...
Good Skipjack Catches Press Seychelles’ Price Down Fast
In the past month, the Indian Ocean seiners strongly increased their skipjack catches. After some earlier setbacks due to bad weather conditions and fishing stopping because of COVID-19...
New Initiative Wants Seafood Workers To Go And Vote
A new initiative looking to ensure that seafood workers have the time, information, and resources they need to vote has been launched by Future of Fish. The program, called Seafood Voting...
Balfegó Changes Business Plan Due To COVID-19
Many companies trading with fresh tuna have had to think on their feet and modify their business strategies because of the COVID-19 pandemic that almost completely killed the sector for a...
Princes Takes A Stand – Cuts 50% IO Yellowfin
UK-based international food and drinks group Princes is the latest to take a stand regarding the controversial overfished yellowfin issue in the Indian Ocean (IO). Today, the company announced...
New Law Cuts Indonesia’s Small Fishers’ Exclusive Subsidies
In Indonesia, small-scale pole-and-line and handline fisheries could have their subsidies snatched out of their hands by larger vessels after the country passed a new law. Since the bill was...
Bumble Bee Innovates Tuna Recipes With Foodbeast
Bumble Bee Seafoods is on a roll to win more consumers by giving Americans their favorite thing – innovative and delicious food. It has teamed up with leading US food news and media website,...
Maldivian Handline Vessel Busted With 130 Kilos Of Drugs
In the Maldives, a handline vessel normally used to target yellowfin was found with 130 kg of drugs. The boat was intercepted at sea by the country’s Police Service during an operation that...
Weather & COVID-19 Bash US Albacore Fishing Season
This year's albacore fishing season in the US has been one of the worst ever. Several local industry players are blaming the COVID-19 pandemic and dreadful weather conditions for this problem....
INFOFISH Webinar: Clock Is Ticking For Tuna Stocks
Today, the Tuna 2021 Virtual Prelude organized by INFOFISH took place with moderator Dr. Audun Lem, Deputy Director of FAO Italy. The interesting line-up of nine speakers, all experts in their...
Guatemala Introduces Tuna Safety Standards
The Central American country of Guatemala has put into place health and sanitary standards similar to those in the EU in order to monitor that tuna products do not present a threat to...
Canary Islands Fishers Worried Over Moroccan Waters Catches
Tuna fishermen in Lanzarote in Canary Islands are puzzled over their daily catches being recorded electronically as being fished from the waters of Morocco when it is not the case. This week,...
Seafood Expo Global Organizer Guarantees Financial Solidity
After the COVID-19 pandemic knocked down Diversified Communications’ trade shows in 2020, speculation has been running rife about its financial state. The company’s President, Mary Larkin,...
Push For FisheryProgress To Scale Down FIPs Social Criteria
FisheryProgress is considering some significant changes to its social responsibility policy draft after stakeholders raised concerns on several issues such as the mandatory vessel list and the...
US Teens Reel In 450kg Monster Bluefin
Three American teenagers off the coast of Provincetown in Massachusetts have made the news for reeling in a massive bluefin – one weighing over 1,000 pounds (over 450 kg). At first, Daniel...
Seiner Fishing Illegally Caught In The Act In Mexican MPA
A tuna purse seiner was caught on camera while illegally fishing in a marine protected area in the Cortez Sea in Mexico. The vessel was filmed by people enjoying the landscape of the bays of...
Tanzania Expanding Tuna Longline Fleet
The Tanzanian government has been taking more steps to promote deep-sea tuna fishing and exploit fish resources in its EEZ and high seas. The Tanzania Fisheries Corporation (Tafico) recently...
WWF Asks IOTC To Enforce Skipjack HCR With A Penalty
Major global NGOs have issued statements ahead of the IOTC annual gathering in early November to ask the Commission to adopt measures in order to effectively manage stocks in the Indian Ocean...