US brands, retailers, and importers raised their purchases of canned tuna by one-sixth in 2025, the highest in five years. Thailand still accounted for the largest share of supplies, but...
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Vietnam Canned Tuna Export Value Takes Backseat
Vietnam’s canned tuna export value fell in 2025, compared to the previous year. Trade with the US, historically its top market, rose, but business with the EU dropped. Vietnam pointed out that...
OPAGAC Brings Virtual Tuna Fishing Experience To Spanish Cities
Spanish purse seiner organization OPAGAC converted a bus into a tuna boat to host an experience combining education and entertainment for people of all ages. The virtual tuna fishing vessel...
Major Global Highlights February 2026
The prices of skipjack raw material in major tuna processing hubs declined, except in Bangkok. The US Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s reciprocal tariffs were unlawful, to which the President...
Nirsa Seiner Catches Fire At Its Wharf
Ecuadorian-flagged purse seiner, ‘Maria Eulogia’, caught fire on Friday while it was moored at Nirsa’s dock in Guayaquil. Videos and photos of the vessel, engulfed in black smoke, were doing...
Indian Ocean Skipjack Price Keeps Falling Due To Lukewarm Demand
Tuna fishing in the Indian Ocean is not improving for purse seiners. Skipjack is caught at better sizes, though volumes are still below average, and yellowfin catches have significantly...
Japanese Buyers Scale Back On Canned Tuna Purchases
Japan’s demand for canned tuna declined, driven by reduced trade with several Asian suppliers. The total imports amounted to USD 343.37 million, down nearly 11 percent year on year. Buyers...
Venezuela’s Sucre State Begins Work To Revamp Its Tuna Industry
Venezuela has started work to strengthen its industrial tuna fishing sector, focusing on Cumaná, the capital of Sucre. A tuna seiner that recently docked at the port is preparing to supply...
Big Tunas: How They Help Store Carbon In The Ocean
-VIEWPOINT- When climate change and tuna enter the same conversation, the story is almost always about warming oceans, acidification, shifting prey, and moving stocks. Those risks are real,...
European Commission Opens ‘Call for Evidence’ To Shape Fisheries Future
The European Commission is seeking public consultation from fisheries stakeholders and citizens on the Vision 2040 for fisheries and aquaculture. A ‘Call for Evidence’ was published this week...
PNG Determined To Expand Number Of Domestic Tuna Plants
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that operations in its tuna canneries are expanded, beyond exporting them for processing. Richard Maru, the...
US Govt Gained Millions From Extra Tariffs On Canned Tuna Imports
The US Trump administration suffered a political blow when the Supreme Court ruled last week that reciprocal tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) were...
CLS Group Enters Talks To Acquire Ocean Measurement Firm
French CLS Group, an international provider of Earth and ocean observation and monitoring solutions, has entered into negotiations with Valemos and Geps Innov, shareholders of Akrocean, a...
EU Fisheries Committee Moves To Align RFMO Rules With EU Law
The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has agreed on a plan to bring RFMO-initiated tuna fishing rules into the EU law. The EU clarified that the move would improve legal clarity and...
FAIRR Flags Gaps Between Seafood Giants’ Traceability Promises And Action
Global investor network FAIRR-led investigation has revealed that there are notable gaps between tuna and seafood companies’ traceability commitments and their implementation strategies....
PNA Open Entries For World Tuna Day 2026
The Parties of Nauru Agreement (PNA) have called for entries to its World Tuna Day 2026 Competition, under the theme 'Sustaining Tuna, Sustaining Nations' for this year. “This year’s theme...
Azores Tuna Fishermen Cry Foul Over New Marine Protection Rules
Tuna fishermen in the Azores have voiced their concerns after the regional government reduced the area available for traditional pole-and-line fishing, following the creation of the Azores...
Argentina Accedes To Cape Town Agreement, Boosting Global Fisher Safety
After years of work, the Cape Town Agreement will come into force in February 2027, closing a longstanding gap in the global fishers’ safety framework. Argentina acceded to the Agreement on...
Pacific Tuna Fisheries Officials Discuss 2050 Strategy For Region
Key officials in the Pacific tuna fisheries management met this week at the FFA Development Partner Symposium in Suva, Fiji. Besides improving collective effort in sustainably managing tuna...
EU’s Huge Demand For Canned Tuna Fueled By Ecuador
Ecuador delivered nearly 2,609 more 20 ft containers of canned tuna in 2025 to EU markets compared to the year before. The EU imports hit a five-year high, driven not only by Ecuador’s trade...