The Cook Islands’ government has agreed to establish a 50 nautical mile exclusion zone, which will guard against foreign commercial fishing and seabed mining in part of the nation’s EEZ. It...
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Taiwan Prosecutes To Prove Battle Against IUU
Taiwan is illustrating its serious stance against IUU fishing, and with the help of a newly installed monitoring system, is slapping a hefty fine on a domestic-flagged tuna longliner, caught...
TU Lets Consumers Decide Where To Spend Its Cash
Thai Union-owned Mareblu has launched a new campaign that allows its customers to “donate a click” and vote towards an environmental cause, which the brand will then give money to. Titled...
FAD & Free-School Mixture Disputed In Echebastar MSC
Initial stakeholder comments published on the pilot MSC assessment of Spanish firm Echesbastar, reveal some very differing opinions on the pursuit for sustainable certification for both...
Balfegó Opens Gastronomic Bluefin Experience
Balfegó Group, one of Spain’s main fresh tuna exporters, is offering consumers a brand new experience through the opening of a world first bluefin space in Barcelona next week. The showroom...
WTPO: US Fleet Ocean Switching Fully Legit
The switching of US-flagged seiners between the Eastern and Western Pacific is a legitimate way for fleets to ensure their economic survival, and is not an issue in terms of conservation, says...
StarKist Targets Millennials With New Hot Pouches
US tuna firm StarKist is further expanding its line of tuna pouches, a segment which has been growing in the country in recent years. The new products are set to attract the changing taste...
Chinese Firm Attempts Tuna Brand Counterfeit
Chinese manufacturers have allegedly counterfeited the packaging of over 2,000 cases of canned tuna. Officials in Guyana have seized the import which they say had attempted to replicate the...
Australia Celebrates Sustainable Seafood Day
Australians are set to celebrate the annual festivity of Sustainable Seafood Day on March 31st, in a country which has shown forward thinking on ocean conservation, and boasts the most...
Global Firms Urge RFMOs To Act On HCRs & FAD Advice
A list of 83 global companies and organizations have signed a call-to-action letter addressed to tuna RFMOs, urging the adoption of a number of key sustainability policies, including HCRs and...
Trader Joe’s Wants Tuna Underfilling Case Scrapped
Trader Joe’s has urged a California court judge to dismiss a proposed consumer class action that accuses the US retailer of substantially underfilling cans of tuna, and cheating shoppers in...
Bolton Scores Biggest Italian Growth, Tuna Sales Pivotal
The Bolton Group was the largest corporation in Italy to record a sales increase in packaged consumer products for 2016, with its tuna sales making up almost half of the total and contributing...
Sharp Slump In Korean Supply To Bangkok
After nearly doubling its whole round tuna deliveries to Bangkok in 2015, the South Korean fleet hasn’t managed to keep up the full extent of the strength, seeing tonnages slip considerably...
Spanish Fleet Demands Punishment For Law Breakers
The Spanish tuna purse seine fleet is urging RFMOs to take more direct control in order to eradicate IUU fishing. Its representatives argue that many offences go without sanctions, leading to...
Supply Boost Widens Price Gap In Japan
After narrowing earlier this year, the usual price gap between high valued tuna species in Japan is revealing itself once again, following the return of more vessels to the country’s ports,...
Thai Human Traffickers Hit With Long Jail Sentence
Six individuals in Thailand have been sentenced to 14 years in jail for the trafficking of migrant workers, showing that the efforts to eradicate labor abuse and slavery in the Thai fishing...
Strong Free-School Demand Reduces Supply To BKK
A notable slump was seen in deliveries of whole round tuna from several major fleets to Thai packers last year, with US-flagged vessels being a big part of this. One US boatowner states that...
Heavy Fines Deter Pacific IUU Offenders
Major fines and consistent monitoring and surveillance has caused a decline in IUU vessels fishing in the Pacific, states the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). This is positive news for a region...
Greenpeace Softening Its Thai Union Attacks?
A Greenpeace led campaign against Thai Union showed its face outside this year’s Seafood Expo North America in Boston, and following on from many TU-targeted moves from the NGO, this method...
Reshaped NAFTA Poses Threat To Mexico’s Tuna Industry
Mexico’s last grasp on zero duty access to the US market is hanging by a string, as parties gear up for talks for a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). With United States...