EU leaves tuna fleet out in the cold
The European tuna fleet is absent from EU trade impact assessments, according to European industry body Europêche, and socio-economic assessments of major EU tuna trade agreements fail to consider the impact…
Business as usual not an option – tuna ATQ
Europêche is calling on the European Council to reject the rollover of the 35,000-tonne Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) for tuna loins and to eliminate it altogether, arguing that as preferential…
Port Victoria recognised as meeting EU landing control standards
Two years after the publication of the European Control Regulation Implementing act on the margin of tolerance, the European Commission listed Port Victoria in the Seychelles, where European tropical tuna…
How much duty-free competition can Europe’s tuna sector take?
With a slew of agreements set to extensively open the European market to tuna imports from around the world Europêche wants to see European institutions eliminate ATQs on tuna loins…
IOTC first with TACs and quotas for all three tuna stocks
This outcome on yellowfin tuna at the 30th Session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission held in the Maldives marks a major step forward for long-term sustainable fisheries management in…
Long-term sustainability depends on compliance by all fleets
With the 30th session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) about to be held 11-15th May, European operators are going into the session in the Maldives with a wishlist…
Opening the EU to Indonesian tuna – at what cost?
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.…
Bluefin quota increased, little progress on other issues at ICCAT meeting
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…
EU freezing-in-brine regulation benefits consumer safety and fair competition
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…
Black tuna and skipjack
Thailand FTA a threat to European tuna producers
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…
