San Diego-based South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) has announced that is selling more than half of its 14 US-flagged purse seiners, reducing its fleet to six by the end of…
One of the world’s leading sustainable tuna supply companies has announced the sale of its global tuna supply business to its longtime partner, Bolton Group. Bolton Group has held significant…
Australia’s delegation at the IOTC annual meeting put forward a strong case for maintaining a modest share of the Indian Ocean tuna catch, opening the way for Australia to argue…
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) held its 23rd Annual Meeting in Hyderabad last week and the EU has welcomed the adoption of ambitious measures to improve the management of…
Sustainability-driven new research could one day help tuna fisheries cast their nets more selectively, mitigating bycatch of undersized fish and off-limits species. A multinational research team has carried out a…
The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) is pushing for a rebuilding plan for yellowfin tuna, the faster development of harvest strategies, a more equitable catch allocation process, stronger FAD…
Canning companies Garavilla, which produces the Isabel brand, and Sálica, which has the Campos brand, will be the first to distribute products carrying the AENOR Conform RFT label. This month…
A Blue Belt tuna tagging programme is taking place on the Atlantic island of St Helena as part of a wider project tagging 120,000 tropical tuna species from across the…
Organisations at the centre of Indonesia’s sustainable fishing movement announced the official launch of the One-by-One Indonesia Tuna Alliance at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels last week. The Alliance brings…
The Spanish tuna fleet has begun the process to assess all its fisheries to the MSC Standard for sustainable fishing, including operations in the the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans,…