The draft EU–Indonesia agreement published by the European Commission provides preferential market access for tuna – which industry figures warn will result in further destabilising the market for European producers.…
The 29th ICCAT meeting which ended earlier this week was dominated by bluefin tuna, while other tropical tuna issues remained either undecided or unaddressed. The decision to set a 48,403-tonne…
The adoption of a new EU regulation setting strict brine-freezing conditions for tuna purse seiners has been welcomed as recognising and valuing the high sanitary and technological standards already applied by…
European fishing industry bidy Europêche warns that an EU-Thailand free trade agreement that fails to exclude tuna products could seriously undermine the competitiveness of the European tuna sector as a…
Seen as a significant step in tropical tuna management, the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) 29th session closed with the adoption of a full management framework for tropical tunas, including…
As the 29th session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) opens today in La Réunion the Europêche Tuna Group (ETG) is urging contracting parties to adopt concrete measures to…
The European Commission is kicking off a week of negotiations on the draft free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand. This highlights one of the paradoxes of…
The prohibition on fishing around FADs in Atlantic waters has been cut from 72 days to 45 at ICCAT’s 24th special meeting, held in Limassol earlier this month. ICCAT’s Standing…
The outcomes of the recent IOTC session mask serious deficiencies in governance and the organisation’s inability to manage tuna stocks, instead putting the focus on FADS, while also rejecting every…
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) 28th session ended last week on a sour note for the European fleet, and Europêche states that the with the focus on FAD measures, IOTC…
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