A group of NGOs has pointed their fingers at the PNA for stalling the implementation of the harvest strategy for tuna stocks in the WCPFC. The Pew Charitable Trusts, WWF, Global Tuna Alliance,...
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
ANABAC Wants MSC Logo For IO Skipjack Catches
Spanish fishing companies Pevasa and Atunsa belonging to ANABAC are aiming to achieve the MSC sustainable certification for their skipjack catches in the Indian Ocean (IO). The assessment body...
Calvo Ahead Of Its 5-year Sustainability Plan
Spanish tuna processor Calvo says that it is three years ahead of its 2025 sustainability strategy, 'Responsible Commitment'. It is expected that by then all goals of the plan will be...
Dongwon Staff Rolls Up Sleeves Cleaning Up Plastic Waste
On the occasion of ‘International Coastal Cleanup Day’, South Korean tuna fishing Dongwon Industries held a cleanup event. The employees of the company came together last Friday to tidy the...
Three Seiner Companies Want To Extend Their MSC To Entire PNA
The stack of MSC purse seiner certifications over the entire PNA zone keeps getting higher. Three purse seine fishing companies which already have the MSC logo for their commercial tuna...
Time Is Ripe For ICCAT To Adopt Harvest Strategy
The undeniable success of the ICCAT Atlantic bluefin stock recovery plan now requires modern sustainable management as a follow-up to the current quota allocation. The need is increasing as...
Japan Makes Fashion Statement: Jackets From Recycled Fishing Gear
The nation with the largest tuna consumers in the world is now taking initiatives to do its part for environmental conservation. Mr. Kodai Kato, a utility management company employee,...
Dynamic Ocean Closures Can Reduce Bycatch By Half But Challenging To Implement
Bycatch remains a threat for numerous species in the oceans, and static temporary closures are used as a tool to reduce their catches. A study found that dynamic ocean management will...
Post Royal Burial, MSC Sustainability Week Begins
The Sustainable Seafood week restarts this week after it was postponed due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The campaign was to be held between September 16 and 23 but will now last until...
CAB Says Two Tri Marine Fisheries Can Be Certified For Bigeye
The certification body, SCS Global Services, has announced that the bigeye catches of two Solomon Islands’ fisheries, one purse seine and the other longline, both belonging to Tri Marine, can...
Scientists Raise Doubts Over Pacific Marine Park Expansion
Scientists in the US Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council have doubts about the recommendation to expand a marine monument in the central Pacific Ocean. They noted a lack of...
Anger Over Approved Nauru’s Deep Sea Mining Project
Scientists and environmental groups are up in arms after an international body gave Nauru Ocean Resources Inc (NORI) the green light to conduct deep sea mining trials in the Clarion Clipperton...
First Hawaii Longline Fishery MSC Certified
As no stakeholders submitted any objections, Control Union UK published the Public Certification Report for its client, the Hawaii Longline Swordfish, Bigeye, and Yellowfin Fishery, which...
Third Bluefin Fishery Achieves MSC Certification
Spanish family business Atún Rojo del Estrecho S.L., which trades as JC Mackintosh, has achieved MSC certification for its bluefin fishing in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean...
CAB: Small Ecuadorian EPO Yellowfin Fishery Should Receive MSC Cert
The assessment body, LRQA, has determined that the small Ecuadorian purse seine tropical tuna fishery should receive an MSC certification. The results were published in a Final Draft Report...
Study: Consumers Can Trust MSC Fisheries Are Within Sustainable Limits
The latest research shows that consumers can have confidence that seafood products carrying the MSC blue label indeed come from fisheries that are well-managed with stocks that are not...
New Study Says Marine Stocks In MSC Fisheries More Abundant
A new study published on Thursday in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, has reported that target stocks of MSC-certified fisheries are more consistently fished within...
Major Global Tuna Highlights August 2022
The month of August was filled with eventful news – from increasing skipjack prices in Bangkok to the certification body insisting to the adjudicator that the PNA fishery be FAD certified....
High Seas Biodiversity Treaty Fails With Solutions In Sight
Covering nearly two-thirds of the world’s oceans, every decisive progress on the future UN High Seas Biodiversity Treaty is of vital importance to the tuna industry, and an agreement seemed to...
400-Personnel Massive Anti-IUU Operation Reveals No Perpetrators
No violations were reported during the massive 12-day Operation Island Chief, a Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)-led surveillance program covering 18.2 million square kilometers....