Indian seafood company Captain Fresh, which claims to have neared the completion of its acquisition of Spanish tuna firm Frime, has withdrawn its Initial Public Offering (IPO) papers. The...
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IOTC Announces Tropical Tuna Catch Limits For 2026
The IOTC announced yellowfin, skipjack, and bigeye catch limits for its members in its convention area for 2026. China, Sri Lanka, and Yemen were allocated increased yellowfin quotas compared...
Madeira And Satlink Start Pilot On Digitalization Of The Fishing Fleet
Madeira will be the first Portuguese region to anticipate the 2028 electronic monitoring requirements under EU fisheries regulations. Its Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Fisheries...
Mayor Wants Stranded Tuna Vessel At Lanzarote Coast Gone
The mayor of a Spanish town recently expressed dismay over the remains of a tuna boat that has been left stranded near the coast, irking locals. Alfredo Villalba, the Mayor of Haria, a town...
Dongwon Group Reshuffles Top Execs, Including At StarKist
South Korean Dongwon Group has carried out its executive appointments for domestic and global business for 2026. This includes the promotion of experts in its US tuna subsidiary, StarKist. The...
BlueNalu Secures USD 11 Million In Funding
Cell-based seafood company, BlueNalu, has secured around USD 11 million to scale up production and boost cultivated fatty belly meat of bluefin (toro). On December 29, the company announced...
Will US Tuna Imports Shrink?
US brands, retailers, and importers increased their volumes of canned tuna and pouches in 2025 due to concerns of high tariffs imposed by the US government on many nations, including major...
Spanish Demand For Frozen Tuna Loins Sees Sharp Growth
EU importers bought 23 percent more frozen yellowfin and albacore loins between January and September 2025. These products are for direct human consumption and headed for restaurants,...
Spanish Longliner Crew Member Disappears At Sea
The chief engineer of the Spanish-flagged longliner ‘Viking Bay’ went missing on the high seas near New Zealand in the late afternoon of December 27, during a tuna fishing trip. Upon noticing...
Vietnamese Tuna Fishers Queue To Unload Their Cargo
Vietnamese vessels landed over 265 tons of tuna in the port of Quy Nhon in Bin Dinh province in the first two days of the year. After trips varying from a couple of days to two months, fishers...
EU Buyers Import A Quarter More Frozen Loins, Ahead of Stricter Rules
EU markets' demand for frozen raw tuna loins increased in Q3 of 2025, a trend seen throughout the year. Ecuadorian processors managed to almost double their trade with EU retailers and...
Liberia Making Slow Yet Steady Progress In Its Tuna Industry
Liberia reconfirmed that it has stepped up efforts to strengthen its tuna and other seafood industries. The head of the country’s fisheries regulator visited key fishing hubs in the West...
Chinese Tuna Boat Hijacked By Somali Pirates
A Chinese-flagged fishing vessel catching yellowfin in the Indian Ocean was hijacked by Somali pirates off the Puntland Coast last week. The boat was reportedly seized by pirates for the...
Uncertainty Looms Over Venezuelan Tuna Fleet After US Captures Maduro
The US carried out large-scale military attacks in Venezuela over the weekend and captured its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, drawing criticism from several world leaders, while many...
Toyosu’s New Year Bluefin Auction Sets New Million Yen Record
The annual bluefin auction took place at Japan’s Toyosu market in the early hours of this morning, setting a new record for the price at which it was sold. The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura,...
Readers: US Reciprocal Tariffs Will Be Rolled Back This Year
The past year proved turbulent for the United States’ key tuna trading partners after President Donald Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs on tuna products, threatening established supply chains...
Work Begins On Redeveloping Korea’s Busan Seafood Auction Market
South Korean officials recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the modernization of Busan Joint Fisheries Market, one of the country’s largest tuna and seafood auction markets. The...
Marfrío Takes 100 Percent Ownership Of CLP Factory
After nearly a year of being at odds with one another, Spanish company Comercial Pernas (Coper) and seafood processor Marfrío have come to a deal over the Central Lomera Portuguesa (CLP), the...
Dongwon Industries Recognized For AI Drive In Tuna Operations
South Korean tuna company Dongwon Industries has won the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Grand Prize at the 2025 Korea Management Awards, a category introduced this year as companies...
WCPO Pole-And-Line Catches Plunge To 52-Year Low
The WCPO pole-and-line fleet’s catches were at a historical low in 2024, despite higher skipjack captures. Japanese and Indonesian vessels mainly used this gear for operations last year. The...