Comment/Editorial: A Label for tuna?

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2002) Comment/Editorial: A Label for tuna? Samudra Report (33). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

According to GLOBEFISH of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), tuna is the third major fish commodity traded internationally, after shrimp and groundfish, accounting for about 9 per cent of total trade in value terms. Tuna is practically the only fish processed and traded on an industrial scale. Japan is the largest market for tuna in the world. The Japanese large-scale tuna longline industry, in particular, produces around 200,000 tonnes of sashimi tuna, which is the highest value seafood in the Japanese, and perhaps the whole world, market. It also imports about 270,000 tonnes of sashimi tuna, of which 50,000 tonnes, or 10 per cent, comes from the ’flags of convenience’ (FOC) fishing vessels subsequently christened by FAO as ’illegal, unreported and unregulated’ or IUU fishing vessels.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0422
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, GLOBEFISH, Japan, Tuna, Flags of Convenience (FOC), Fishing Boats, Organization for the Promotion of Responsible Tuna Fisheries (OPRT), Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Fisheries Trade
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 11:25
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 11:30
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1112

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