Thai Union Group’s Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Joerg Ayrle, has resigned from his position effective February 1, 2021. He will have been at the company for nearly seven years by the time he...
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EU Counter Tariffs On US Goods Excludes Tuna
The WTO has allowed the EU to impose countermeasures against a range of American exports due to illegal US subsidies given to aircraft maker, Boeing. After EU member states came to an...
200 StarKist Containers Stuck At Port Due COVID-19
The American Samoa government has approved a recommendation by the local Coronavirus Task Force to leave a container ship anchored at port for at least seven days. The vessel, ‘Fesco Askold’,...
Sri Lanka Court Gives Order To Destroy Indian IUU Vessels
A court in Sri Lanka has given the order for authorities to destroy 27 out of 94 vessels that were seized from fishermen in South India who had encroached into Sri Lanka's EEZ in the past...
New Canned Tuna Bolognese Option For Pasta Lovers
The Spanish processing company, Conservas Cermar, has released a new product -- canned tuna bolognese, perfect for all kinds of pasta. The item, sold under the Galica brand, which markets...
Bom Petisco Launched Organic Canned Tuna
The main brand of Portuguese canner and trader Cofaco, Bom Petisco, has launched two new tuna products - in organic olive oil and tomato sauce. The ingredients for these additions were farmed...
IOTC Annual Meeting Kicked Off Today
Today, the IOTC 24th Annual Meeting started in Seychelles. The five-day event is being held online and will end on November 6. Each day there will be two-hour conferences starting at noon in...
Sentencing Postponed For US Tuna Price-Fixing Execs
The final sentencing for three former senior executives of Bumble Bee and StarKist who were involved in the price-fixing shelf-stable tuna case in the US has been postponed. Kenneth Worsham,...
Silky Shark Tagging Project To Lower Echebastar’s Bycatch
Spanish tuna fishing company Echebastar and AZTI, a research institution, are currently collaborating on a Silky Shark Tagging Project to seek ways to reduce bycatch. Biologists tag a...
Bluefin Breaks Into Salmon Farm While Chasing Dinner
A bluefin chasing its dinner broke into a salmon farm’s cage in Scotland. The tuna, which might have weighed around 300 kg, tore the net causing a small amount of damage. The bluefin was...
Explorer Magalhães Honored By Portuguese Tuna Brand
Five hundred years ago, Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães arrived at the South American coast after a year of traveling. Tuna processor Ramirez has joined the official quincentenary...
Controversy Continues Over Seiners Trespassing Mexican MPA
Yesterday, again another three seiners were spotted in the Cortez Sea in Mexico, as reported by Big Fish. The marine area is a protected ecosystem and commercial fishing is prohibited....
ICCAT Event To Reveal Info On Tagged Atlantic Tuna
ICCAT will have its final symposium on the Atlantic Ocean Tropical Tuna tagging Program (AOTTP) online from January 12 to 14. It will bring together students, scientists, managers, NGOs, and...
100% Of Canadian Cannery Products MSC Certified
All Raincoast Trading products are now carrying the MSC blue logo for sustainable fishing. The cannery based in Nanaimo, Canada, has over 25 years of experience and trades albacore and...
COVID-19 Outbreak In New Zealand Port
Out of 440 Russian and Ukrainian fishermen who arrived last week in New Zealand on two chartered flights, at least 18 have tested positive for COVID-19. The sailors were in a hotel - which has...
EU Fleet Extends Foothold In Pacific
The EU has extended by one year the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement with Cook Islands. The current protocol allows for 7,000 M/T of tuna to be caught annually by four EU purse...
Immaculate First Trip For New Ecuadorian Seiner
The first trip of the Ecuadorian Grupo Jadran’s newly built tuna purse seiner ‘John Paul II’ – 92 meters long and 14 meters wide – went without problems. Towed by three tugboats, the vessel...
Controversy Over Out-Of-State Tuna Gillnetters In Indian Port
The state government of Kerala in India has yet to allow gillnet boats from other states to enter the Kochi harbor due to COVID-19 restrictions. About 600 gillnetters from Tamil Nadu were...
Tri Marine Hires Tuna Fleet Manager To Lead Sustainability Program
Since August, Christa Svensson has taken on the role of Tri Marine’s Sustainability Program Manager. In the past, she worked as Fleet Manager at Ilwaco Fish Company which fishes for albacore....
Fiji Longline Fishery One Step Closer To Certifying Its Bigeye
The quest to extend Fiji Fishing Industry Association MSC Group’s sustainable certification has been greenlighted by Lloyd’s Register, the third-party assessment body overseeing the case. The...