Bumble Bee Seafoods has restyled its Protein on the Run healthy snack kit and added MSC tuna in three new flavors plus the sweetness of caramel. It has added the line to Bumble Bee Prime. With...
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Crack Down On Criminal Group For Stealing Bluefin
This week, the Civil Guard of Murcia, Spain, arrested three people for stealing 120 kg of bluefin from farms in the region and three more are under suspicion for the same crime. They all...
Not Overfished: Good News For Recovery Of Southern Bluefin
The management of the Southern bluefin stock is paying off as it has been classified as not overfished in the recent ABARES Fishery status report 2021. The research division of the Department...
Chef & Restaurant Owners Ask US Congress To Crack Down On IUU
More than 200 chefs and restaurant owners in the US have sent a letter to Congress asking for authorities to crack down on IUU fishing and forced labor abuses. They argue that they serve...
RD Switches To Eco-friendly Packaging For Dolly Tuna
RD Tuna Canners from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has committed to fighting plastic pollution. It will be replacing the plastic wrap around its Dolly Tuna brand's six-pack of canned tuna with a...
PNG-FIA Fishery MSC Cert Extended To Include Bigeye
SCS Global Services, the conformity assessment body of the PNG Fishing Industry Association (FIA) for MSC assessment has determined that the fishery’s scope extension to include bigeye should...
IUU Fishing Bill Removes AIS Requirement For Small US Boats
The Illegal Fishing and Forced Labor Prevention Act was amended by a US congressional committee on October 13. Interestingly, the group approved that the prerequisite for boats longer than 50...
Japan’s Pole-and-Line MSC Certification Recognized With Award
The Japan Sustainable Seafood Awards were given out during this year’s Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Symposium which took place from October 10 to 13. The Collaboration Award went to the Japan...
China & Pacific Islands Holding Tuna Trade Talks In Dec
Pacific Island nations and China will be holding trade talks over fisheries this coming December. The China Pacific Island Nations Fisheries Cooperation Development summit will take place in...
Oman Is On Track To Increase Tuna Landings
Oman reported an increase of 44.8 percent in fish landings, reaching 840,378 M/T in 2020. Artisanal fishing accounted for 793,419 M/T of which tuna catches amounted to 68,578 tons. At 8.6...
More Division In IOTC Over DFADs Proposal Vote
Pressure is growing for a special IOTC session to vote on a drifting FADs (dFADs) management proposal submitted by Kenya during the RFMO’s annual meeting in June. The document recommends a cut...
EU To Hold Online Meeting With Vietnam Over Yellow Card
Inspectors from the European Commission (EC) and Vietnam’s General Department of Fisheries will hold an online meeting on October 27 regarding the Asian country’s progress in mitigating IUU...
Maldives Ministry Gives Struggling Tuna Sector Workers Income Aid
The Maldives Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture is giving financial aid to workers in the fishery industry who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry...
Canned Tuna Prices Up In Mexico In September
In Mexico, the canned tuna price suffered a 2.93 percent increase in September. The overall inflation in the country rose 0.62 percent month on month to reach an annual rate of six percent,...
Spanish Pole-And-Liners Won’t Be Able To Fish In Morocco
The fisheries and trade agreements between the EU and Morocco have been recently annulled by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) taking away the right to fish for several Spanish-flagged...
Dongwon Group Diversifying From Fish To Livestock
The Dongwon Group is diversifying its business from fishery to meat. It recently carried out an organizational restructuring by establishing a livestock division under its subsidiary Dongwon...
Accidental Massive Tuna Donated To US Soup Kitchen
A soup kitchen in Belfast, Maine, (USA) was very happy after it received a donation of hundreds of kilograms of tuna meat from a local fishing crew after they caught a massive 600 pound...
Thai Union Announces New Joint Venture Co. For Product Packaging
Thai Union's (TU) printing and packing subsidiary, Thai Union Graphic Co. Ltd (TUG), has entered into a joint investment with Starflex Public Company Limited (SFLEX), an industry leader in...
New Almadraba In Spanish City After 50 Years?
The Spanish NGO, Savia Foundation, wants to set up a new Almadraba at the port city of Isla Cristina and has asked for the support of the local government to achieve this. The non-profit,...
IUCN Wants More Control & Protection In The World’s High Seas
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially passed a motion urging the UN to finalize a treaty on the issue of the sustainable use and protection of marine...