The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) has agreed to allow commercial tuna and other fishing within the four marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean. The...
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Bumble Bee Film Festival Offers Attractive Cash Prize To Winners
Bumble Bee is back with yet another innovative technique to attract consumers to buy its tuna products. This time, it is eyeing not only the young generation, but people of all ages. Earlier...
Surprisingly US Ambient Tuna Prices Remain Stable
American consumers did not pay higher for ambient tuna and other seafood in August compared to the previous month. However, the value of frozen and fresh segment for fish and seafood rose from...
Venezuela Reaches Out To FAO & International Community Over US “Illegal Action”
The Venezuelan government has filed a complaint against the US with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the “illegal and hostile” interception of Venezuelan tuna longliner...
FAO Meeting Highlighted Topic On Reforming Ecolabelling Practices
Small-scale fishers (SSF) face numerous challenges when it comes to adhering to the current ecolabeling certifications, which eventually prevent them from competing in the global tuna and...
Thailand Making Notable Growth In Pre-Cooked Loins Trade With EU
EU canners’ demand for pre-cooked loins from smaller suppliers increased by 36 percent in H1 2025. Buying from non-EU suppliers rose, whereas trade within the bloc fell. Thai suppliers...
Mexican Bluefin Farm Expands With Acquisition Of Seafood Company
Earlier this week, Mexican bluefin aquaculture company Baja Aqua Farms confirmed buying Ensenada-based fishing and processing firm, Baja Marine Foods. The amount for which the deal was sealed...
Seatech Tuna Supplying Seiner Catches Fire
Earlier this week, part of a Colombian-flagged purse seiner caught fire when it was moored at the docks of Mamonal-based tuna company Seatech International. The vessel supplied frozen whole...
Vietnam Tuna Industry Faces Challenges In US Market
Vietnam’s global tuna exports have stalled this year, said Le Hang, Deputy Secretary General of Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). After 2024’s excellent business...
NOAA Fisheries Could Soon Experience Major Budget Cut
The US House of Representatives wants a deep slash in funding for NOAA Fisheries – at least 40 percent. On September 10, the US House Committee on Appropriations approved its fiscal 2026...
Rare Opportunity To Catch Albacore In Gulf Of Alaska
Warming waters are drawing albacore up north into the Gulf of Alaska near Sitka. Fishers are taking advantage of the occasion to catch the tuna normally not seen in this region. The abundance...
EU Trade Chief Acknowledges Impact Of Thai FTA On Spanish Canners
The Spanish tuna canning sector, one of the largest worldwide, has been fighting tooth and nail against the implementation of an EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Recently, European...
Panamanian Firm Wants MSC For Its Seiners’ EPO Catches
Panama-based tuna fishing company, Messinia Holding Group, is eyeing the blue sustainable logo for its skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye catches in the EPO. Apart from an Announcement Comment...
Spanish Demand For Pre-Cooked Loins Hits All-Time High
Spanish processors’ buying of pre-cooked loins from January to June hit a record high. The total business amounted to EUR 370.79 million, a 22 percent increase from EUR 303.13 million in H1...
More Stability In Bangkok Skipjack Market
There is a slight uptick in skipjack trading in the Bangkok processing hub, and the price has inched up. The clarity in US tariffs for Thailand brought more stability in the market, and buyers...
Much-Anticipated WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement Enters Into Force
Three years after the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Fisheries Subsidies Agreement was adopted, it officially entered into force on September 15 after 111 members (two-thirds) submitted...
Illegal Moroccan Migrants In Custody After Tuna Boat Catches Fire
Five illegal Moroccan migrants, including a minor, have come under the scrutiny of the Lanzarote police (in Spain’s Canary Islands), after a tuna boat they travelled on caught fire near the...
Spanish Tuna Fishers Highlight Importance Of EU Funds To Thrive
The Spanish fishing sector wants Luis Planas, Spain’s Fisheries Minister, to push for a “specific fund” for tuna and other seafood in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034 to the...
Liquidator Ignores Pernas Family’s Acquisition Offer For Atunlo
Spanish workers' union CCOO is accusing the Atunlo bankruptcy administrator of prioritizing economic gain over job preservation. The offer made on July 31 by the Pernas family to regain Atunlo...
Skipjack Shortage Drives Manta Price To 2 Year High
Fish shortage in the Manta processing hub is becoming more acute due to the veda, fishing closure. Last year when EPO purse seiners caught extraordinary volumes of skipjack, canneries...