Sales of MSC-certified yellowfin are on the decline while canned skipjack remains the number one consumed MSC seafood product in the world. The Americans and southern Europeans sharply...
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Germans Still The Top Consumers Of MSC Tuna
Europeans remain the major buyers of MSC-certified tuna, with more than half of all global sustainable tuna retailed in Northern and Central European countries. Germany is the largest...
MSC Officially Launches New MSC Fisheries Standard
After four years of review and deliberation, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched its new global MSC Fisheries Standard version 3.0 for tuna and wild capture fisheries today....
How Much Of 2.3 Million M/T MSC Tuna Really Reaches Consumers Carrying The Logo?
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) recently announced that tuna sales with the blue logo increased by 25 percent. This is good news for the global tuna industry which has expressed interest...
“Spillover Effect” A Boon For Hawaii Tuna Vessels
A new study strongly suggests the number of fish caught just outside the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) in Hawaii is higher due to the no-fishing zone. The increase in tuna...
WCPFC Elects New Executive Director – Candidates Are
The WCPFC will appoint a new Executive Director at its annual meeting starting November 28 in Vietnam. The tenure of the current Director, Feleti Penitala Teo, expires in March 2023....
Fishing Companies Pay For FAD Debris Clean-Up
Seychelles fishing companies are financing a clean-up of FAD waste that has washed up on reefs, lagoons, and the coastlines of the Seychelles islands. In this joint venture, the Ministry of...
PNA CEO Says MSC Objections Financed By “Commercial Competitors”
A recent ruling by an MSC Independent Adjudicator (IA) placed MSC certification for the PNA tuna fishery's FAD-caught tuna and bigeye catch far out of its reach. The decision dropped like a...
Tri Marine Seiner Fishery Faces Opposition For Bigeye MSC Score
The Solomon Islands Skipjack and Yellowfin Tuna Purse Seine and Pole And Line MSC fishery, owned by Tri Marine, is facing opposition from the Coalition for Transparent Tuna Fisheries (CTTF)...
Pacifical Is First “GDST-Capable” Tuna Company
Pacifical has become the first seafood company to pass the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST’s) Capability Test, meaning its data proves the tuna in its supply chain was...
MSC Tuna Sales Jumped 25% Reports The Council
In its silver jubilee year, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) reported the catch by MSC fisheries totaled 12 million tons between April 2021 and March 2022. This volume covers 15 percent of...
WWF Accuses Small Ecuadorian Seiner Fishery Of Using Shortcuts For MSC Cert
Environmental group, WWF Ecuador, has vehemently objected to a small Ecuadorian purse seine tropical tuna fishery receiving MSC certification. It is arguing that the fleet has not done...
Bay Of Biscay “Dead End” For Plastics Waste, Threat To Tuna
The Bay of Biscay is known as an important summer feeding area for tuna in the Atlantic Ocean. The Spanish research organization, AZTI, has studied the potential diversity, abundance, and...
New MSC Standard Sets Higher Requirements For Tuna Fisheries
A higher set of requirements for harvest strategies will impact global fisheries that are sustainable certified due to the new Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard 3.0, said the...
MSC: IA’s Ruling On PNA Fishery Shows Checks & Balances In Certification
On Wednesday, the Independent Adjudicator (IA) overseeing the dispute process of PNA fishery’s scope extension ruled that its MSC certification cannot include bigeye and FAD sets. The Marine...
Adjudicator Rules PNA Cannot Have Bigeye & FADs Certified
The Independent Adjudicator (IA) has determined that the world’s largest tuna purse seiner fishery, the PNA, should not be MSC certified for FADs and bigeye. This comes after a lengthy dispute...
Costa Rica Passes New Tuna Reform Law
Having bounced around between two sets of representatives in Congress for years, the Tuna Reform bill has finally become law. The government established the regulation on October 11. However,...
UK Good Fish Guide Ignores Latest Science on EPO Skipjack
UK non-profit Marine Conservation Society has published its latest Good Fish Guide which claims to show affordable and ocean-friendly seafood choices like tuna available to consumers and...
MSC: More Global Consumers Making “Climatarian” Diet Decisions
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) recently stated that global consumers are changing their diets for environmental concerns and are choosing more fish products with the sustainable logo....
Maldives And IPNLF Work To Protect Migrant Workers
Foreign workers comprise the majority of the workforce in the Maldives. Two reports shed light on this issue, concluding that only a few labor in the pole-and-line tuna fishing and processing...