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Insurer ends coverage for illegal fishing fleet in progressive step. Insurance company Hydor has ended its contract with a fleet of vessels that were discovered fishing illegally across the Atlantic […]
Bluefin tuna in the UK. Information on the current rules applicable to Bluefin tuna in UK waters. Status of bluefin tuna Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna is a highly migratory species […]
Seafood sector veteran Kevin Bixler to chair ISSF board. International Seafood Sustainability Foundation appoints Thai Union Group’s Global Director of Group Fish Procurement to chair; William Gibbons-Fly, former U.S. Department […]
ISSF Status of the Stocks: 87.6% of Global Tuna Catch Continues to Come from Stocks at Healthy Levels, While 9.6% Require Stronger Management. Of the total commercial tuna catch worldwide, […]
New ISSF Report Benchmarks Tuna RFMO Performance against the U.N. FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) From Minimum Standards for Inspector Training to Advance Notice of Port entry, Report […]
Urgent Curbs on Drifting FADs – More than 100 organisations call for urgent curb on destructive drifting-FADs to rebuild tuna stocks and protect fragile marine ecosystems. An urgent call was […]
New chair for IPNLF The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), the global charity that is focused on promoting sustainable development, by working with, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially […]
IOTC agrees dedicated 2021 session to address yellowfin tuna – The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) met for its 24th Session between the 2nd and 6th November 2020. The meeting […]
IPNLF announces new Chair of their Board as part of leadership succession plan. Rahim Hoosen will succeed John Burton as chair of the board after he successfully steered the global […]
Newest ISSF Participating Tuna Company Compliance Report Shows 99.4 percent Conformance with ISSF Conservation Measures 24 of 25 companies were fully compliant with all 27 measures audited, compared to 22 […]
Assessors must reconsider MSC tuna evidence. The independent adjudicator for the formal objections process to the potential Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the first East Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery […]
FairTrade tuna fishery achieves certificate for sustainability. A small-scale Indonesian fishery operating on small one or two-man boats using hooks and lines has successfully demonstrated its sustainability to the globally […]
ISSF annual report shows 99.1% participating company conformance rate with science-based conservation measures, highlights 2019 efforts for sustainable tuna fisheries Annual Compliance Report Details Conformance by 25 ISSF Participating Companies […]
Study indicates alarming fall in Indian Ocean dolphin numbers. A study of how many dolphins are caught in tuna fishing nets estimates the mammals may now be at just 13 […]
Why all tuna fisheries can’t be pole and line. In a blog on the Marine Stewardship Council website, Bill Holden, MSC Senior Fisheries Manager for Oceania and South East Asia […]
Spanish gear manufacturer joins IPNLF. Efectos Navales del Atlántico S.L. has become the latest Member of the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF), the only non-profit association that is solely committed to promoting […]
Project to promote sustainable tuna fishery in Canaries. Grupo Calvo made a presentation in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) recently on the “Sustainable Canary Tuna” project. The initiative seeks to promote the MSC […]
Several key objectives met at tuna conference. The EU says some of its key objectives were achieved at last week’s meeting of The International Commission for the conservation of Atlantic […]
USA claims major achievements at tuna talks. The United States says it achieved several victories for our commercial and recreational fisheries at the 2019 meeting of the International Commission for […]
Europêche disagree with ICCAT decisions, saying they do not represent a level playing field. Europêche represented the European fishing fleet at the 26th ordinary meeting of the International Commission for […]
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