Europêche welcomes new EU freezing-in-brine regulation as a major step for consumer safety and fair competition for EU fishing sector

by Bibiana | Nov 12, 2025 | News

Europêche welcomes the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2025/1444 setting strict brine-freezing conditions for tuna purse seiners. For once, a European regulation rightly recognises and values the high sanitary and technological standards already applied by the European...

EU–Thailand Free Trade Agreement: Europêche warns against influx of Thai tuna following US tariff increase and calls for its exclusion from the FTA

by Bibiana | Sep 22, 2025 | News

Starting on September 29, the European Commission will kick off a new round of negotiations on the draft free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand. According to the European Commission, tuna production is one of Thailand’s priorities on the...

EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement: European tuna industry sounds the alarm

by Bibiana | Mar 31, 2025 | News

Starting today, the European Commission will kick off a week of negotiations on the draft free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand. These discussions, interrupted for several years and relaunched a couple of years ago, are causing concern in...

Launch of ITUNNES Project: Enhancing Tuna Stock Assessment through European Science-Sector Collaboration

by Bibiana | Jun 27, 2024 | News

Last week, on June 17th, in Pasaia, Spain, AZTI hosted the kick-off meeting of the ITUNNES project, that aims through European institutes and sector collaboration to foster the implementation of effective management measures for tropical tunas at tuna Regional...

EU tuna purse seine fleet representatives and scientists to continue collaboration to achieve enhanced tuna stock assessments

by Bibiana | Jan 29, 2024 | News

The Europêche Tuna Group organised on January 23rd in Montpellier its second meeting between industry and science stakeholders at European Level entitled: “Towards robust stock evaluations for better management”. The meeting gathered 23 experts in Montpellier,...