Solomon Islands tuna traders are complaining about the high fees that the government has them paying for selling their fish in the Gizo Fish Market. They say that authorities need to consider...
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
New 2025 Sustainability Tuna Pledge A Good Move?
Companies and other stakeholders involved in the tuna sector’s supply chain have yet another sustainability commitment to look into. Three groups behind the Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration...
Paperwork An Assurance For Human Rights In The Tuna Supply Chain?
Should paperwork be the only information necessary to see if companies are sustainable and addressing other social concerns in their tuna supply chain? This is a question that has been raised...
Seaspiracy’s “Stop Eating Seafood” Message Plain Wrong
Reactions from tuna and seafood organizations have begun to pour in over the controversial Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, which was released this week. Ranging from outright derision to...
Younger Generations More Into Sustainable Seafood
The younger generations and especially Generation Z are not only more into sustainability in tuna and seafood but are also interested in rewarding companies who behave more responsibly....
GDST 1.0 Turns One, But Still Has A Lot Of Growing To Do
It has been exactly one year since the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) launched its first version (GDST 1.0) of the global standards for tracking seafood products from point of...
NGOs & Pole-And-Line Fishing Firms Want DFADs Cut In IO
Over the past few weeks, NGOs and other stakeholders have been hurriedly pushing forward their recommendations for the IOTC to consider in the Special Session for the yellowfin rebuilding...
The Nature Conservancy Taking Center Stage In the Global Tuna Sector?
NGOs Greenpeace and WWF have been playing a dominant role in the tuna sector for the last two to three decades, but now there is a new kid on the block. Another US-based non-profit – The...
Should IOTC Ban All Driftnets?
The use of driftnets in the tuna industry is controversial and lately, this issue keeps being addressed in terms of Indian Ocean fisheries. At the beginning of this year, IOTC reminded members...
Readers Split On Seiners Yellowfin Quota Reduction
Atuna readers definitely want the purse seiners in the Indian Ocean to reduce their yellowfin catches but they are currently split down the middle about the amount that it should be. We asked...
Controversy: IOTC Assigning Yellowfin Quota To IUU Gillnet Fleets?
After concerns about the sustainability and impact of large-scale driftnets were brought to IOTC's attention, the RFMO installed a ban on this fishing equipment for the Indian Ocean (IO) high...
MSC Extends Derogations For Another Year
Last Friday, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced that it will be continuing with some of its measures that were put in place a year ago due to the global pandemic. It will extend...
Tesco Pledges To Go 100% MSC Tuna By 2025
UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, announced today that it will be going for 100 percent MSC certification for all its tuna segments by 2025. This is a bold statement given that the company has...
Major Global Tuna Highlights February 2021
From US fast-food restaurant chain Subway taking to social media to fight against a “baseless” lawsuit to the Indonesia’s pole-and-line fishery’s MSC certification being called into question,...
UK Retailers Push Strongly For Sustainable Tuna, But Sharply Reduce MSC Share
Despite UK retailers calling for more sustainable tuna for the past 10 years, the volume of MSC tuna being sold in the UK and Ireland has been on the decline over the past two years....
ANABAC’s Free School Atlantic Yellowfin Catches Closer To MSC
ANABAC’s free school yellowfin fishery in the Atlantic is inching closer to MSC certification. The body overseeing the process has published the Public Comment Draft Report (PCDR), which shows...
IOTC Corrects 2021 Catch Limits, Allocates Almost 14,000 M/T More Yellowfin
Last December, IOTC revealed the catch limits for each of the fleets targeting yellowfin in the Indian Ocean (IO). However, new information has come to light that the quota had to be adjusted....
Thai Union Secures USD 400 Million Loan To Achieve Sustainability Goals
The Thai Union group has received a massive loan worth hundreds of millions of dollars which will be used to pursue the company's sustainability goals. If such objectives - which include more...
Not Much Progress In Thai Union’s FIPs Yet
As part of its Tuna Commitment and SeaChange® sustainability strategy, global company Thai Union (TU) firmly promised to have a minimum of 75 percent of its branded tuna products sourced from...
WCPFC Longliners Must Choose Shark Conservation Method
The deadline is approaching for longliners targeting tuna in the WCPFC area to adopt one of the methods proposed by the RFMO to minimize their shark bycatch. During the WCPFC annual meeting of...