March 11, 2023 — The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation released its latest Status of the Stocks Report, finding a higher percentage of the global tuna catch comes from stocks with a healthy level of abundance than in 2021 – but that the level coming from overfished stocks also increased.
The latest report found that of the global commercial tuna catch, 85 percent is sourced from stocks with “healthy” levels of abundance – an improvement over 2022 report, which found 80.5 percent was sourced from healthy stocks. That improvement is tempered somewhat by the 11 percent of tuna catch coming from overfished stocks, an increase from the 9.2 percent found in 2022.