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55 Seiners Leave Manta After First 72 Day IATTC Ban
Ecuador’s first annual 72-day ban on tuna purse seine fishing, which began on July 29 of this year, ended earlier this week on Monday, October 8. The ban was established on the basis of...
Pinsa Group’s Dolores Canned Tuna Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Dolores Tuna, under Pinsa Group, is considered a mainstay of Mexico’s canned tuna industry. With records dating back to early decades of the 20th century, the brand will be celebrating its...
China No. 1 Skipjack Tuna Loin Exporter To EU
Ecuador has lost a significant chunk of frozen pre-cooked skipjack tuna loin exports to the European Union to Chinese processors in the first half of 2018, according to Eurostat data....
Atunlo To Expand Loining Factory Workforce
Spanish tuna firm Atunes y Lomos LLC (Atunlo) is expanding its workforce at its O Grove loining processing plant in Galicia, Spain, through a series of developments it describes as “various...
Thai Union Collects Second Distinction For Ethical Responsibility
For a second time this month, Thai Union Group PCL (TU) has collected a distinction for ethical responsibility. Amidst a turbulent period in...
Spain Wants To Replace TAC
After Spanish fishermen exhausted their quota at faster-than-usual rates this season, the Spanish government discusses the possibility of replacing the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the...
Toyosu Market Opens With Inaugural Pre-Dawn Tuna Auction
Just five days after Tokyo’s time-honored Tsukiji seafood market concluded its final sale, wholesalers, buyers, and patrons flocked to its new site at Toyosu for its...
Maltese Opposition Wants To Rectify Bluefin Industry
The Maltese Democratic Party (center-left political party in Malta) is calling for the establishment of a task force to “rectify” and develop a relevant strategy for the bluefin tuna industry....
OPAGAC’s APR Certification To Hit Shelves Next Spring
The Spanish tuna fleet, represented by the Organization of Associated Producers of Large Tuna Freezers (OPAGAC), will begin implementing its self-issued APR certifications on its canned tuna...
Samoa Gov’t Denies Tuna Poaching Claims
Foreign-owned fishing vessels are not poaching in Samoa’s waters, according to Samoa’s Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Afioga Lopaoo Natanielu Mua. Local commercial fishermen complained...
Increased Local Tuna Processing In PNG Leads To Water Shortage
After a rebate scheme was introduced to encourage local processing in Papua New Guinea (PNG), tuna companies ramped up their production significantly. In January 2018 alone, 5,330 tons of tuna...
Brexit Prompts Lower Returns For John West Foods
John West Foods (JWF), a UK-based subsidiary of Thai Union Group PCL, disclosed a decrease in sales margins and turnover in its 2017 fiscal report and a reduction in turnover by 0.7 percent to...
3 Chinese Longline Fisheries Gets MSC Stamp
Three Chinese tuna companies successfully obtained the Marine Stewardship Council Certification (MSC) ecolabel for longline yellowfin and bigeye tuna in the waters of the Federated States of...
John West Salmon Paté Made With Skipjack Tuna
The UK’s canned fish brand, John West, is no stranger to diversification. The brand is well known in the UK and the Netherlands for its range of fish spreads, instant meals, pastes, and patés....
COS Joins Biggest Sustainable Seafood Expo in California
Chicken of the Sea reinforces its partnership with its new neighbor in Los Angeles, California during the celebration of the National Seafood Month. Teaming up with Cabrillo Marine Aquarium,...
Tuna Imports From Seychelles Rejected For EU Entry
On October 3 last week, two shipments of tuna product were rejected in Spain at Cape Verde for poor temperature control, rupture of the cold chain, according to reports by the EU’s regulatory...
Geofencing: An Impediment To Future FAD Management Efforts?
The technology has been around since 2016, found in smartphones, drones, and even thermostats- but what are implications of geofencing on FAD monitoring strategies? Geofencing, the unregulated...
Sea To Table Scandal Exposes Pitfalls Of Traceability
As sustainability becomes an increasingly crucial point of interest for consumers around the world, North America-based local fishing communities and groups are reexamining the overall...
“Battlefish”: Pole-Caught Albacore Spotlighted In New Netflix Series
Netflix’s newest docuseries is its first to feature the fisheries of the Pacific Northwest- a reality program trailing the lives of men and women on five tuna pole and line vessels fishing for...