The organisation representing French tuna operators has slammed Blue Marine Foundation and Bloom for failing to understand the difference between AIS and VMS – suggesting that getting wrong something so…
The Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) has announced the appointment of Daniel Suddaby as its executive director. With twenty years of experience in fisheries and marine conservation, he is an expert…
The European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries has voted down the Commission’s proposals for managing fisheries in the Indian Ocean. MEPs rejected new rules on the management, conservation and control measures…
Spanish tuna operators within OPAGAC are making a €7 million investment over the coming couple of years to ensure that the group’s entire 380,000 tonne annual catch will be MSC certified. With…
Spanish technology specialist Marine Instruments and Furuno Electric have struck an agreement to strengthen collaboration in both know-how and product marketing, with Furuno becoming the official distributor of Marine Instruments’…
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…
The Tuna Bites campaign, launched by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the Pacific Community (SPC), celebrates the UN World Tuna Day and Pacific Tuna Month. The campaign,…
The Annual Conservation Measures & Commitments Compliance Report, released by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), indicates a 99.75% rate of compliance during 2022 by 25 participating companies with all of the 33 ISSF conservation…
The NGO Tuna Forum has recently published guidance on workers' rights for companies engaged in the tuna industry, following an intervention by Human Rights at Sea. Tuna are fished in more…
European purse seine operators have committed to supporting initiatives for artisanal fisheries in West Africa. The Europêche Tuna Group and COMHAFAT, which represents articanal and other fisheries in 22 African…