Saving Seafood

Walmart Foundation-funded partnership aims to give tuna buyers more complete transparency information

October 3, 2025 — Three fishery monitoring organizations – the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), Global Fishing Watch (GFW), and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) – are collaborating to combine their databases to improve transparency in the tuna supply chain. The goal, the organizations said, is to give tuna buyers access to information, including vessel by vessel bycatch data and observer reports, in one place.

The project, which will draw on SFP’s buyer transparency databases, FishSource and Seafood Metrics, ISSF’s  Proactive Vessel Register (PVR) and Vessels in Other Sustainability Initiatives (VOSI), and GFW’s Vessel Viewer and Marine Manager, is funded by grants from the Walmart Foundation.

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Tuna meltdown

September 18, 2025 — For Marty Scanlon, president of the Blue Water Fishermen’s Association (BWFA), tuna fishing is a passion as much as a business. Since 1991, he has been running his 43-foot vessel, the Provider II, out of Long Island. But the business is getting rough.

By the time he gets into the Willie Etheridge Seafood dock in Wanchese, N.C., in August 2025, just ahead of Hurricane Erin, he and his crew are at their limit. A problem with the longline reel has forced them to haul back fifteen miles of gear by hand, and not for a lot of fish.

 “It took us two days to get the gear back,” says Scanlon, pointing to a pile of monofilament in a big fish box. “And it only took us a half an hour to unload.”

According to Scanlon, the number of East Coast U.S. tuna fishermen has dropped precipitously from 438 to 68 over the course of his career. The remaining fishermen have faced numerous challenges, among them cheap imports and uncertain and ambiguous regulations.

Read the full article at National Fisherman

Seafood safety specialist releases study dispelling popular tuna, mercury fears

February 11, 2025 — A recent article submitted to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council provided scientific backing to help dispel fears surrounding mercury levels in tuna.

In a guest article submitted to the management council, John Kaneko, a seafood safety specialist based in Honolulu, Hawaii, highlighted where the origins of mercury fears surrounding tuna first emerged.

Read the full article at SeafoodSource