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Supply Chained: Human rights abuse in the global tuna industry

Blog entry by Tara Buakamsri | 4 November, 2015

If you are a tuna lover, chances are good that someone who was forced to work for meagre pay — perhaps even under threat of violence — is behind your tuna curry or teriyaki. Human rights abuses in the tuna industry are serious and...

3 (unpalatable) facts you need to know if you eat sashimi

Blog entry by Yen Ning | 14 April, 2016

One in three pieces of sashimi is from fish caught by Taiwanese fishing vessels. If you eat imported seafood, chances are you’ve eaten Taiwan caught fish, so when we’re talking Taiwanese seafood, we’re talking about an industry that...

From the USA to Thailand: Let's fight to change the tuna industry!

Blog entry by Maïa Booker | 30 October, 2015

This week – from San Diego to Bangkok – activists sent a clear message to tuna industry giant Thai Union Group: it is time for just and sustainable tuna. Thai Union Group is the largest canned tuna company in the world –...

I'm vegan - here's why I'm fighting to change the tuna industry

Blog entry by Dawn Bickett | 22 October, 2015 1 comment

As a vegan, Dawn Bickett used to feel removed from the issue of sustainable seafood. But after documenting the Pacific tuna industry's destructive ways with the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, she's determined to do more to protect...

Disruption, change and the growing wave against Thai Union tuna

Blog entry by Tom Lowe | 13 May, 2016

The waves are surging higher around the Esperanza today. We're headed north towards busier fishing areas, the horizon line heaving up and down as the ship barrels every which way amid the rolling, white-peaked swell. Waves crash...

What will it take to protect the world’s fish and oceans for future generations?

Blog entry by Dr Cat Dorey | 1 December, 2016

I don’t speak tuna . And I fear my ability to sign in shark could be fatally misconstrued. But next week when people from all around the Pacific and beyond meet in Fiji to discuss the future of fisheries in the region, our finned...

Supply Chained

Publication | 4 November, 2015 at 16:00

Thai Union Group PLC (TU) is the largest producer of canned tuna in the world, supplying to brands and retailers around the globe. But TU has been linked to the darkest sides of the seafood industry: human rights abuses, the wholesale waste of...

Out of line

Publication | 19 November, 2013 at 17:30

Most of the global longline fisheries are operating out of control and out of sight. A huge fleet of over 5000 vessels roams the world’s oceans with almost no control mechanisms in place to ensure that their operations are legal, sustainable...

Plundering the Pacific 2008

Publication | 2 October, 2008 at 12:50

How transhipping at sea by Philippine fleets facilitates the launder and plunder of West and Central Pacific tuna

Brussels Seafood Expo - business closed!

Feature story | 23 April, 2008 at 2:00

"Ladies and Gentlemen your attention please, the Dongwon, Mitsubishi, Moon Marine, Azzopardi and Ricardo Fuentes stalls are now closed." That was one message being relayed over the public address sound system at the Brussels Seafood Expo today,...

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