Small-scale tuna fishers in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, are taking part in a ghost gear retrieval competition, the first of its kind in the world. The contest runs from June...
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StarKist’s Marketing Chief Leaves To Join Chicken Of The Sea
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of StarKist, Andy Mecs, recently left his role to join a competing tuna company, Thai Union’s Tri-Union Seafoods which operates under the Chicken of the Sea...
Japan’s Tuna Sector Fighting Negative Image To Recruit Young Crew
Japan’s fisheries are using social media to attract more young people to tuna fishing companies. Many of them view distant water tuna fishing jobs as hard, dirty, and dangerous. Working on...
Earliest Closure Ever For Spanish Albacore Season
Spanish vessels will have to stop fishing for Atlantic albacore (bonito del norte) as of midnight Sunday, as their total allocated quota of 17,397 M/T is estimated to have been reached....
US Coast Guard Vessel Finds Multiple Violations In Albacore Fishery
The US Coast Guard cutter vessel ‘Alert’ completed a 60-day law enforcement patrol last week. The two-month initiative focused on albacore tuna fishing within the US EEZ off the coasts of...
Trial Against Credit Suisse Over Tuna Bonds Gets Date In London Court
A lawsuit filed against Swiss bank Credit Suisse will be heard in the London High Court in September 2023. The financial body is being sued by creditors over the USD 2 billion in...
ISSF Brings Conservation Measures In Line With Market Demands
The tuna industry’s International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has announced updates to several of its tuna conservation measures impacting both purse seining and longline fishing....
Jealsa Battling Over Toxic Waste’s Origin
Legal allegations against Jealsa Rianxeira for discharging toxic wastes from its Boiro cannery into the Ria de Arousa sanctuary for the...
US-Based Brand Claims First Fair Trade Canned Chunk Light In The Country
The American canned tuna brand Mind Fish has announced the introduction of the first Fair Trade Certified Canned Tuna in the US. The product contains Chunk Light tuna in spring water or olive...
600 Candidates For StarKist’s 200 Job Vacancy
Since mid-May, the StarKist American Samoa tuna plant has been operating under capacity due to a lack of workers. Despite the US territory’s borders still being closed due to the COVID-19...
Peruvian Officials Ignore Debt By Accusing Tuna Supplier Of Non-Compliance
The Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) in Peru is trying to play dumb and is ignoring a debt of more than PEN 500,000 (USD 123,500) regarding the purchase of tuna for emergency packages for...
StarKist Applies Tuna Successes To Other Products
The success of tuna in pouches inspired StarKist to also launch ready-to-eat chicken chunks in pouches. The brand announced a new item which is again inspired by tuna. This time it is pouched...
Dongwon Expands Its Healthy Fast Food Chain
Today, Dongwon Group has opened its fifth CrispyFresh salad café at a spot that is easily accessible and where a lot of people pass by - a subway station in Seoul. The food shop only serves...
Why Can Slovenians Not Fish Any Tuna In Their EEZ?
Slovenian fishermen are not allowed to fish for bluefin in their own waters as the country does not have a share of the EU quota. This is because Slovenia's fisheries policymakers did not...
Calvo’s ‘Easy Flip’ Packaging Wins Innovation Award In Spain
Calvo’s new tuna packaging concept, which was launched this January, has received the Galicia Food Awards in the category of Innovative Product. These awards are meant to contribute to the...
Half Of EPO Seiners At Port As First Veda Starts
This year's first Veda for EPO tuna purse seiners with a fish-holding capacity of 182 M/T or more started on July 29. Of the 254 seiners, 123 have chosen to stop fishing during this closure...
EU & Mauritania See Eye To Eye On A New Fisheries Partnership
The negotiations between the EU and Mauritania regarding a new sustainable fisheries agreement came to a successful end on July 28. Officials from both parties were able to agree on a new...
Mozambique Fears “Litigation Chaos” Over USD 800 Mil Tuna Bonds Scandal
In the legal battle over the controversial debt scandal that involved USD 2 billion in loans (including over USD 800 million in tuna bonds) in Mozambique, the country's government is...
Chinese Province Wants To Expand Its Already Large Seiner Fleet
The Fujian provincial government in China wants to expand its tuna fishing fleet and will be handing out subsidies to fishing companies. Under its “Eight Measures for the High-Quality...
Century Pacific’s CEO Among Asia’s Best
The CEO of the Philippines' tuna processing company Century Pacific, Ted Po, has been recognized by the Institutional Investor’s (II) Research 2021 All-Asia Executive Team buy-side survey. Po...