The Japanese tuna fishing sector faced umpteen challenges in the first six months of 2025 and has ambitions goals for the upcoming half told Hiromi Isa, Managing Director of the Organization...
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Coalition Of NGOs Highlights Why “New Generation” Of Tuna SFPAs Is Need Of The Hour
The EU IUU Fishing Coalition has given Costas Kadis, the EU Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, a roadmap outlined which, it believes could improve Sustainable Fisheries Partnership...
Panama Is Prepping To Host IATTC Annual Meeting
The 103rd IATTC Annual Meeting will be held from September 1 to 5 in Panama, with the prime focus on marine conservation and sustainable fisheries management in the EPO, according to the...
China Partially Lifts Japanese Tuna And Seafood Ban
Earlier this week, China announced that it has partially lifted a nearly two-year ban on Japanese tuna and other seafood products over the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima...
Spaniards’ Preference For MSC Canned Skipjack Rose
Spanish consumers chose MSC tuna more often in 2024, compared to the previous year, mainly driven by an increased demand for canned skipjack. Tuna accounted for 14 percent of MSC-certified...
FAO & US University Join Hands To Help Small-Scale Fishers Worldwide
The UN FAO and North Carolina-based Duke University signed a five-year agreement to strengthen collaboration on small-scale fisheries last week. They also released a joint report,...
Major Global Highlights June 2025
The price of skipjack traded in major processing hubs, Bangkok, Seychelles, and Manta, fell to a one-year low. The US dollar continued its downward trend and witnessed a four-year drop against...
Mars Scripts History, First Pet Food Company To Join GDST
US-headquartered Mars Petcare recently joined the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), thus becoming the first pet food company to ensure transparency and traceability across its...
Gabon Boosts Surveillance Of Foreign Vessels Through Cooperation With GFW
Gabon is taking a step further to improve the surveillance of tuna and other industrial fishing vessels operating in its EEZ. The African nation and Global Fishing Watch (GFW) signed a...
Planet Tracker Names Tuna Companies Lacking Transparency And Sustainability
Most tuna companies do not disclose information about their catches, leading to shortcomings in transparency. A few of them also fish from unhealthy tuna stocks. The study by financial think...
Bolton Reaffirms Partnerships To Become Most Sustainable And Responsible Company
Italian tuna company Bolton organized an event with WWF and Oxfam to share the results of their partnerships to achieve sustainable fishing, protection of the oceans, and guaranteeing human...
Anfaco Refutes Brailling Cans For Multiple Reasons
Spain recently notified the European Commission about the need to regulate accessible labeling of tuna and other food products for blind people. Spanish canners’ association, Anfaco,...
ISSF Enhances User Experience In Tracking Tuna Vessel Sustainability
Retailers and seafood stakeholders can now get detailed insights into tuna vessel participation in MSC, Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs), and best-practice sustainability initiatives. The...
Taiwanese Longliner Captain Charged For Illegal Killing Of Dolphins In Pacific
Taiwan’s Pingtung County officials have indicted a Taiwanese longliner captain for allegedly intentionally capturing and killing dolphins, to be used as bait for tuna and shark fishing. The...
Chinese Vessels’ Fishing Footprint Dominated Operations In Tuna-Rich WCPO
NGO Oceana recently stated that 57,000 Chinese-flagged tuna and other vessels were accountable for 44 percent of the world’s visible fishing activity between 2022 and 2024. Much of the...
Grupo Pinsa Takes Efforts To Protect Rainforest
Mexican tuna company Grupo Pinsa is all set to neutralize the water footprint of its tuna canning operations in Mazatlán through the conservation of strategic watersheds, which would play a...
Mexican Fishers Brace For Additional Tuna Fishing Ban Atop IATTC Prohibition
Mexico has announced a temporary fishing ban for its national-flagged purse seiners and longliners operating in the Pacific Ocean through 2025 and 2026. This is apart from the two annual IATTC...
Spanish Scientists Want To End Uncertainty Over Atlantic Bluefin Stock
A group of Spanish researchers has begun an oceanographic survey near the Balearic Islands in Spain to get an estimate of bluefin in the region. The initiative, called ‘Tunibal’, is being...
WTO Only Nine Ratifications Away From Fisheries Subsidies Going Into Force
Panama was the recent nation to formally accept the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) much-anticipated Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Only nine more acceptances are required for the...
John Burton Leaves GTA’s Advisory Group
John Burton, a founding member of the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA), has stepped down from the organization’s Partnership Advisory Group. Sarah Eames, COO of World Wise Foods, will fill the...