Last week, EU workers and employers in the tuna and other seafood fisheries sector launched a new website, 'Social Dialogue Sea Fisheries', to share resources and drive forward joint action on...
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The Exponential Growth Of The French Tuna Market
Pierre Commère, Executive Director for the Fish Industry at Federation of Preserved Food Industries (FIAC) underlined that canned tuna consumption has grown exponentially over the years in...
Jealsa & Salica To Improve Sustainable Tuna Business With PERTE Funds
Jealsa,Salica and 17 other EU processing and aquaculture companies will benefit from the EUR 40 million financial aid from the Projects for Recovery and Economic Transformation (PERTE) as the...
EU Processors’ Frozen WR Albacore Buying Hit 5-Year-High
The imports of whole round frozen albacore into the EU market grew remarkably in the first three months of 2025, with South Africa continuing to be the largest seller of the product, followed...
Trump Slaps 30 Percent Tariff On Mexican Canned Tuna
Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump sent letters to Mexico and the EU stating that goods imported from these regions would be levied an extra 30 percent from August 1. This will be a...
WCPO Purse Seiners’ Daily Catch Rate Improved In May
The overall catch rate in the WCPO increased in May, propelled by successful skipjack fishing, compared to the previous month. Most of the tunas were netted in the EEZs of Nauru and Papua New...
Is IOTC Approaching A New Allocation System?
The IOTC will be discussing a fair catch allocation system for all commercial tuna and swordfish in its convention area at the 15th meeting of its Technical Committee on Allocation Criteria...
Consorcio Group’s 2024 Sales Propelled By Overseas Markets
The Spanish Consorcio Group closed 2024 with a higher turnover and net profit compared to the year before, propelled by great sales in overseas markets, particularly Italy. Its products range...
Sharp Growth In Ecuador’s 2025 Tuna Exports Worldwide
Ecuador’s tuna business is booming. The country’s exports worldwide experienced a sharp jump, both in value and volume, from January to April. The value in the first four months reached USD...
Bolton Sold Via Oceán Seiners To Pacific Ocean Companies
The Bolton Group has sold two of the three purse seiners of its subsidiary Via Oceán. Both vessels left Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for Panama and are owned by two Latin American companies. The last...
Fish Tales Addresses Tuna Welfare In Pole-And-Line Fishing
Dutch sustainable tuna brand Fish Tales announced the start of a project on improving tuna welfare in pole-and-line fisheries. A sensitive subject that is not widely publicized by brands and...
Nirsa’s Ocean Run Garners Attention And Other Social Media Stories
Ecuadorian Nirsa, which owns the Real tuna brand, conducted an ‘Ocean Run' last month to promote ocean sustainability, an initiative that received appreciation by social media users. The...
Three Pacific Islands Want To Extend Their EEZs
Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu have taken a major step to secure 453,400 square kilometres of shared ocean heritage. They submitted Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) documents to the UN...
Modest Drop In Yellowfin WR Imports In Q1
Tuna processors in Europe slightly reduced their intake of frozen whole round yellowfin in the first quarter of this year. The volume of raw materials from non-EU fleets dropped while those...
ISSF Report Shows Members Still Need To Work On Conservation Measures
The ISSF recently published its Annual Conservation Measures report, and it revealed a 99.62 percent conformance of its participating companies, with a 0.38 percent non-conformance. The 'ISSF...
WCPO Seiner Owners Rejoice As Skipjack Catches Showed Sharp Uptick
The overall fishing effort and catches of purse seiners fishing in the WCPO increased in May, compared to the previous month. Consequently, vessels netted 41 percent more skipjack catches....
Environmental Groups Warn Of Allocating Increased Pacific Bluefin Catches
The Pacific bluefin stock has improved greatly through years of efforts of flag states under the management of WCPFC and IATTC. WCPFC recently posted on social media that the species has...
Card Game Helps To Improve Financial Literacy Of Indonesian Fishers
Fluctuations in tuna supply and demand make financial management difficult for Indonesian small-scale fishers and their families. IPNLF Indonesia, supporting the livelihood of these fisheries,...
Korean County Orders To Dump Bluefin For Exceeding Limits
This week, Korean fishers on the eastern coast of South Korea in Yeongdeok County had to discard their haul of bluefin catches, because they had fished over the quota. Officials said the tuna...
The Impact Of WCPFC FAD Ban On Skipjack Catches
The WCPFC FAD ban came into force on July 1 and the supply of skipjack to processing hubs, such as Bangkok, will be impacted in the coming weeks. The ban runs for one and a half months until...