The Hidden Cost of Tuna: Discrimination on board European fishing vessels
New report amplifies first-hand accounts of discriminatory treatment faced by many West African crew members working on board European vessels.
22 July 2025
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The UK's Tuna Blind Spot
Blue Marine Foundation, French NGO BLOOM Association and Greenpeace UK are calling on UK retailers to stop selling tropical tuna caught around drifting FADs in the Indian Ocean by not entering into any new supply agreements for tuna caught in this way.
09 November 2023
The Necessity of Protecting Fisheries Observers at Sea
An independent Case Study of European Union commercial fisheries monitoring and oversight highlighting the need for increased Fisheries Observer protections. Human rights apply at sea, as they do on land.
26 October 2023
Fishing Outside The Lines: Widespread noncompliance in Indian Ocean Tuna Fisheries
Blue Marine is calling for stricter compliance with existing laws and regulations, for private access agreements to be made more transparent and accountable, and for decision makers to be led by science at the upcoming meeting of the IOTC, rather than by greed, self-interest and short-term gain at the expense of the livelihoods and food security of coastal communities. Yellowfin tuna overfished, bigeye tuna subject to overfishing and skipjack’s catch limit ignored for the past three years.
16 May 2022
Minimum Requirements for Responsible Drifting FAD Use
Universally, the management of drifting fads is weak, characterised by an absence of responsibility on the part of owners and operators for the impacts of their fads on ocean ecosystems.
14 March 2022
Fish Aggregating Devices in Responsible Tuna Fisheries Symposium Report
Fish Aggregating Devices, or FADs, are a fishing tool used primarily by purse seine tuna fisheries. A FAD constitutes a quantity of floating material that is set out at sea, around which marine species such as tuna congregate. Fish attracted to FADs can become easy targets for encircling purse seine nets. FADs can be drifting (dFADs) or anchored (aFADs).
02 August 2021
In Clear Sight - Shining a Light on the Opaque Deep-Sea Mining History
The deep ocean is the largest ecosystem on the planet, providing 95 per cent of all habitable space. With less than 1 per cent of it explored, there is no place on Earth that we know less about. Once mined, we will not see recovery of those habitats in human timescales, leaving nodule-dwelling species, such as corals, sponges and anemones, without a home.
03 December 2020
Failure to Manage Yellowfin Tuna by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
One and a half million metric tons of yellowfin tuna were caught worldwide in 2018, with a dock value of US$4.4 billion and an end value of almost US$16 billion. The Indian Ocean accounts for roughly 30 per cent of the world’s yellowfin tuna catch. Sold in cans, as steaks or raw as high-value sashimi, yellowfin tuna is one of three species of tropical tuna under the management of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). The Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna stock has been overfished and subject to continued overfishing for more than five years and, as a result, is now at risk of collapse.
13 October 2020
Automatic Identification System (AIS) Usage by Spanish and French-Flagged Vessels
Blue Marine Foundation is concerned about the inconsistent usage of Automatic Identification System (AIS) by Spanish and French-flagged tuna purse-seine vessels operating in the Western Indian Ocean.
31 August 2020
OceanMind IOTC Report
A geospatial analysis of fishing efforts in the Western Indian Ocean from 2016-2020, focusing on surface and other gear types. It examines fishing areas, periods, and AIS data in relation to piracy risk, addressing concerns about transparency and visibility in fishing operations, as raised by the Blue Marine Foundation.
16 May 2020
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