US-based Fresh and Ready Foods voluntarily recalled 86 ready-to-eat products, including tuna sandwiches and pastas, due to “possible Listeria monocytogenes Contamination.” The US Food and Drug...
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Other RFMOs Will Not Adopt Skipjack TAC In Near Future
IOTC adopted a historic skipjack quota for fleets at its Annual Meeting that concluded in April. No other tuna RFMO has such limits. Though skipjack in the Indian Ocean is not overfished, the...
Study Claims New Microbe Can Reduce Mercury Absorption In Tuna And Seafood
US researchers claim to have created a specialized gut bacterium/microbe that can “neutralize methylmercury before it spreads to the body.” Experts said that mice were fed bluefin with high...
IUU Fishing Coalition Analyzed Import Control Rules Of Major Tuna Buying Nations
The EU IUU Fishing Coalition recently released a report outlining the importance of major tuna and other seafood buying nations to strengthen their harmonized import controls. The study...
Sluggish EU Canned Tuna Exports In Q4 Affected 2024 Result
Canned tuna export by EU processors and traders was promising at the beginning of 2024, but sales in the last three months underperformed compared to last quarters of previous years. In 2024,...
Gulf Of Guinea Monitoring Strengthened For Tuna Fleet’s Safety
The Gulf of Guinea is a strategic region for EU fishing vessels’ tuna operations. In the wake of increasing “maritime crimes”, monitoring will be tightened in this region. A contract to secure...
Ecuadorian Seiner Rescues Five Fishers Adrift In Pacific Ocean For 55 Days
Three Peruvian and two Colombian fishermen were rescued by Ecuador-flagged purse seiner 'Aldo' off the Galapagos Islands last week. The Ecuadorian Navy (Armada del Ecuador) posted this on its...
Dakartuna Baffled By EU Officials’ Apathy Over Tuna Vessels Moored In Senegal
Dakartuna continues to seek answers from the EU on the fate of four pole-and-liners moored in Dakar after the discontinuation of the EU-Senegal tuna fishing agreement last November. Miguel...
Pacific Islands Laud Decade Of Cooperating In Monitoring Tuna Fisheries
The Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) stated that at the 7th Meeting of the Parties in Niue last week, fisheries officials from the 17 tuna-rich Pacific Island nations celebrated a decade of...
EU Alerts Reported High Listeria And Cadmiun In Tuna In March
Five tuna-related incidents were reported in the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) last month, two of them from Italy. On April 14, Spanish officials alerted the EU about poor...
Thai Union’s Canned Tuna Sales Slumped In Q1
Thai Union Group did not have a good start to the year. It reported that the company's revenue decreased in the first quarter of this year due to sluggish sales across all categories, except...
Italians Preference For MSC Tuna Dropped In 2024
The demand for MSC tuna witnessed a dramatic drop in the Italian market during the 2024/25 period. For the first time, skipjack in cans became the most sold item, overtaking yellowfin, which...
Cape Verde Fisheries Official Calls EU Deal “Mature Agreement”
Cape Verde has granted licenses to 21 EU fishing boats to catch tuna in its EEZ, which would add millions of euros to the African nation’s coffers. Carlos Monteiro, National Director of...
Tri Marine’s NFD Adds New Seiner To Fleet
The Solomon Islands National Fisheries Development (NFD), a key affiliate of Tri Marine, has added a new purse seiner, ‘Solomon Amber,’ to its tuna fleet. The length of the vessel was...
Somalia Miffed At IOTC Over New Skipjack And Bigeye Quotas
Somalia officially submitted its objection to IOTC’s new skipjack quota and allocation of a 15 percent increase in bigeye for all fleets. The African nation stated that the move “severely...
Australia’s Walker’s Tuna Latest To Sign Transparency Pledge
Australian company Walker’s Tuna announced on May 2, World Tuna Day, that it had signed the Tuna Transparency Pledge, to combat IUU fishing in the tuna industry. The global initiative by the...
Century Pacific’s Q1 Results Confirm Full-Year Outlook
Century Pacific Food reported a double-digit sales increase and net income growth in the first quarter of this year. The expected higher import tariffs by its main export market, the US,...
Frozen Yellowfin Falls On Thai Truck Driver
In a freak accident, a truck driver was injured after a 40 kg frozen yellowfin fell on his head at a port in Samut Prakan in south central Thailand. The incident happened on Wednesday...
Seafood Expo Global Ends On A High Note
The Seafood Expo Global, the world’s largest seafood trade event, is ending today in Barcelona. From May 6 to 8, thousands of attendees visiting the halls, which featured products and services...
Is A South Korea & Solomon Islands Tuna Partnership In The Pipeline?
Fisheries officials of South Korea and Solomon Islands met in Seoul last week to discuss ways to strengthen fisheries ties between both nations. The Bina Harbor Tuna Processing Plant project...