Pacifical has announced a significant expansion of its services within the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) MSC-certified tuna fishery. Pacifical’s enhanced capabilities will now include the verification and traceability…
The Global Tuna Alliance has announced a new partnership with the Green Fish Company, which harvests tuna from waters around the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena. The partnership…
The ICCAT session in Cairo has delivered both positive outcomes and disappointments, according to representatives of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), which has welcomed some progress for Atlantic Ocean tuna fisheries. ‘While we were…
At its meeting in Cairo, ICCAT adopted a TAC of 47,250 tonnes for North Atlantic albacore tuna – an increase of 25%. However, there was a failure to reach agreement…
French tuna industry body Orthongel has registered its disappointment at the failure yet again at the 28th ICCAT meeting last week of the Tropical Tuna Sub-Commission was once again unable…
The Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) has asked that the International Commission for ICCAT adopt a multi-annual commitment to protecting the health of at-risk tuna stocks. With the 28th Regular Meeting of…
A series of nine new resolutions have been adopted at the 27th session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission last week, relating notably to bigeye tuna, electronic monitoring system and…
Recognising that the recovery of the bigeye tuna stock requires balanced efforts and sacrifices by vessels using all fishing gears, the European purse seiners are fully assuming their share of…