Bumble Bee’s Canadian efforts, tighter FCF ties fuel progress on $40m sustainability goals
Almost two years into a five-year plan to spend $40m on improving sustainability, ocean health and labor rights, Bumble Bee reports progress with the $14m it's spent so far
FCF parts ways with Bumble Bee seafood veterans, fills ranks with CPG execs
In addition to Jan Tharp, who will be replaced as CEO by FCF shareholder and former yogurt entrepreneur Jerry Chou, at least five top executives have left Bumble Bee in past few months
FCF names Chou family member, former yogurt entrepreneur as Bumble Bee CEO
According to a spokesperson for Bumble Bee, Jerry Chou is succeeding Jan Tharp as CEO of the largest shelf-stable seafood firm in North America
Bumble Bee CEO Tharp set to exit after 12 years
Sources said that Tharp's upcoming exit from Bumble Bee, the company she has worked for since 2010 and ran since 2018, has been communicated internally
Fiji in discussions to secure overseas tuna supply for processing plants
Fiji said it will need supplies from an additional 250 tuna vessels catching outside of its EEZ to meet current demand in the country
Taiwanese tuna exporter, NGO team up on sustainability efforts
Ocean Outcomes has created two new job titles to help support the programs
Bumble Bee’s former PE owner back on the hook for tuna price-fixing claims
The decision means that Lion could possibly eventually be ordered to pay damages in the litigation, which has been ongoing since 2015
Multiple Pacific tuna fisheries face certification loss by 2023, MSC warns
A total of 22 tuna fisheries face a suspension of their MSC certification in the western and central Pacific region following failures to adopt a new harvest strategy
ISSF content with ICCAT outcomes, while Europeche left frustrated
The ISSF said it was pleased that no existing measures were dialed back by the ICCAT's annual meeting, while 24 new measures were agreed to
Judge nixes Lischewski’s request for early release from prison
Christopher Lischewski had asked to have his sentence in the minimum security satellite camp of US Penitentiary Tuscon, in Tuscon, Arizona, converted to house arrest