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At a meeting today with EU officials, the Spanish tuna fleet defended the crucial role it has been playing for years to guarantee security and what is known as “ocean governance” in the oceans where the fleet operates. In a meeting with Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, tuna vessel owners encouraged Europe to take advantage of the fleet in this capacity to reach the goal that the European Commission and the Maltese Presidency have set to […]

OPAGAC is expanding its good practices for tropical tuna sustainability assurance to the Cook Islands The Organisation of Associated Producers of Large Tuna Freezers (OPAGAC) continues expanding its good practices in the Pacific Ocean. OPAGAC, an organisation of eight Spanish tuna vessel-owning companies, has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Marine Resources of the Cook Islands to roll out a pilot project introducing an electronic monitoring system (EMS) in the fishing vessels that ply the territorial waters of these […]

The secretary general for Fisheries at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Andrés Hermida, and Julio Morón, managing director of the Organisation of Associated Producers of Large Tuna Freezers (OPAGAC), were tasked with closing the Third National Tuna Conference, held on the 19th and 20th October 2016. The two-day conference gathered the industry’s leading organisations, fishing, distribution and preserving firms and the media. This year’s event focused on sustainability and responsibility, two factors that represent the guaranty […]