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Bolton Receives Praise From Greenpeace On FAD-Free Commitment
Following years of pressure by Greenpeace activists and their supporters across the globe, the organization now reports that Bolton Alimentari has announced a new far reaching policy designed...
WWF “Most Concerned” Over Echebastar MSC Certification
In a press release, WWF expresses that it is "most concerned" about the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Echebastar Indian Ocean skipjack tuna purse seine fishery, which...
ISSF Rates Indian Ocean FAD Management As Ineffective
In the recently updated RFMO Best Practices Snapshot – 2018, the tuna industry sustainability foundation ISSF rates the existing FAD management actions of all major RFMO’s. The press release...
Echebastar IO Skipjack Fishery Gains MSC Certification
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has just announced its certification of the Echebastar purse seine skipjack tuna fishery in the Indian Ocean, after a long and disputed process, which had...
Tri Marine Sells Its Californian Terminal Island Processing Plant
Tri Marine Group has closed a deal on the sale of its San Pedro coastal processing plant in Los Angeles, California to Alaskan processor Silver Bay Seafoods LLC. The harbor front unloading...
Former Bumble Bee COO Now Focuses On Plant-Based Tuna Alternative
Doug Hines, has taken an alternative approach to bringing tuna to the masses- in his latest venture introducing plant-based "tuna". Until recently he had been an investor in South Pacific Tuna...
Trump Appoints Former Monsanto Exec To Head Fisheries Service
President Donald Trump has nominated a former executive of pesticide and agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto, Aurelia Skipwith, as head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Skipwith will...
Large Pacific Bluefin Return To California Coast After 80-Year Hiatus
San Diego reports have identified an upturn in the population of large Pacific bluefin in Californian waters, attributing the comeback of one of the ocean’s priciest and most sought-after fish...
US South Pacific Albacore Fishery Recertified By MSC
The US South Pacific fishery for albacore tuna has been recertified to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards, with certifications valid until 2023, announced the MSC last Tuesday, October...
Activists Call Out High Stakes For Albatross In Bluefin Longlining
Animal rights organization The Humane Society International spoke out yesterday against measures taken up at last week’s meeting of Australia-based Commission for the Conservation of Southern...
IN BRIEF: Turkish Bluefin For Japanese Sushi
Turkey reached a turnover of USD 56.6 million with its exports of farmed bluefin tuna raised in the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts during the first nine months of this year, according to...
IN BRIEF: NZ Patrol Finds No IUU In Tokelau EEZ
No IUU offenses were detected by the New Zealand Defense Force during recent maritime patrols and inspection of 10 vessels in the EEZ of Tokelau and Samoa. The patrols are assisting the...
Strikes Hit Spanish Seafood Sector
Spanish unions in the seafood sector went on strike this week, accounting for 75 percent of unemployment in the country. In Galicia, where most of the seafood companies are...
EU Renews Tuna Protocol After 22 Years
On October 17, last Friday, the EU and The Republic of The Gambia signed a new Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) protocol, 22 years after the previous protocol expired. The...
Seychelles Looking To Ramp-Up Local Processing Industry
After a year of observed growth in exports across most segments of its seafood sector, Seychelles is looking to further boost its economy by setting up local processing facilities to increase...
Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Wants Dismissal In Kansas Antitrust Suit
Christopher Lischewski, former chief of Bumble Bee Foods LLC and target of a federal criminal prosecution over the hotly scrutinized price fixing plot, has urged a California federal judge to...
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StarKist Underfilling Scam: Payout Of $12 Million In Vouchers
A USD 12 million class settlement issued in a suit over alleged underfilling of StarKist’s tuna cans will be paid out in tuna vouchers- not “coupons”- by the company. As...
Companies Accused Of Bluefin Smuggling Refute Allegations
Two Spanish companies named in the proceedings of EUROPOL’s Operation Tarantelo, Pesconil and Petaca Group, have defended their noninvolvement in the...