Papua New Guinea (PNG) and RD Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on May 9 to build a new cannery in the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone in Madang under a joint venture. This...
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Can Thai And Vietnamese Tuna Producers Expect Good News On US Tariffs?
Earlier this week, the US and China de-escalated their trade war as Washington reduced its import tariffs on Chinese goods to only 30 percent. Meanwhile, Beijing cut down duties on US products...
Mauritania Makes Progress In Tuna Fisheries Transparency
Mauritania has become the second country, after Seychelles, to achieve a ‘compliant status’ in implementing the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard. This underlines the nation's...
Indonesia Tightens Tuna Trade With UAE
Indonesian tuna company PT Dempo Andalas Samudera recently sent its first shipment of tuna products to the United Arab Emirates, one of the Asian country’s largest markets for the fish. The...
Maruha Nichiro Turned Annual Revenue Into High Profit
The cost reduction strategy of Japanese Maruha Nichiro resulted in a rise in its operating income as reported in the full year results. The revenue increased by 4.7 percent and its operating...
US And China De-Escalate Trade War With Slashed Tariffs
The US and China agreed to reduce the tit-for-tat tariffs imposed on each other, thus tapping the brakes on a two-month-long trade war. Discussions between officials of both nations were held...
US Company Recalls Ready-To-Eat Tuna Products Due To “Possible Listeria Infection”
US-based Fresh and Ready Foods voluntarily recalled 86 ready-to-eat products, including tuna sandwiches and pastas, due to “possible Listeria monocytogenes Contamination.” The US Food and Drug...
Other RFMOs Will Not Adopt Skipjack TAC In Near Future
IOTC adopted a historic skipjack quota for fleets at its Annual Meeting that concluded in April. No other tuna RFMO has such limits. Though skipjack in the Indian Ocean is not overfished, the...
Study Claims New Microbe Can Reduce Mercury Absorption In Tuna And Seafood
US researchers claim to have created a specialized gut bacterium/microbe that can “neutralize methylmercury before it spreads to the body.” Experts said that mice were fed bluefin with high...
IUU Fishing Coalition Analyzed Import Control Rules Of Major Tuna Buying Nations
The EU IUU Fishing Coalition recently released a report outlining the importance of major tuna and other seafood buying nations to strengthen their harmonized import controls. The study...
Sluggish EU Canned Tuna Exports In Q4 Affected 2024 Result
Canned tuna export by EU processors and traders was promising at the beginning of 2024, but sales in the last three months underperformed compared to last quarters of previous years. In 2024,...
Gulf Of Guinea Monitoring Strengthened For Tuna Fleet’s Safety
The Gulf of Guinea is a strategic region for EU fishing vessels’ tuna operations. In the wake of increasing “maritime crimes”, monitoring will be tightened in this region. A contract to secure...
Ecuadorian Seiner Rescues Five Fishers Adrift In Pacific Ocean For 55 Days
Three Peruvian and two Colombian fishermen were rescued by Ecuador-flagged purse seiner 'Aldo' off the Galapagos Islands last week. The Ecuadorian Navy (Armada del Ecuador) posted this on its...
Dakartuna Baffled By EU Officials’ Apathy Over Tuna Vessels Moored In Senegal
Dakartuna continues to seek answers from the EU on the fate of four pole-and-liners moored in Dakar after the discontinuation of the EU-Senegal tuna fishing agreement last November. Miguel...
Pacific Islands Laud Decade Of Cooperating In Monitoring Tuna Fisheries
The Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) stated that at the 7th Meeting of the Parties in Niue last week, fisheries officials from the 17 tuna-rich Pacific Island nations celebrated a decade of...
EU Alerts Reported High Listeria And Cadmiun In Tuna In March
Five tuna-related incidents were reported in the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) last month, two of them from Italy. On April 14, Spanish officials alerted the EU about poor...
Thai Union’s Canned Tuna Sales Slumped In Q1
Thai Union Group did not have a good start to the year. It reported that the company's revenue decreased in the first quarter of this year due to sluggish sales across all categories, except...
Italians Preference For MSC Tuna Dropped In 2024
The demand for MSC tuna witnessed a dramatic drop in the Italian market during the 2024/25 period. For the first time, skipjack in cans became the most sold item, overtaking yellowfin, which...
Cape Verde Fisheries Official Calls EU Deal “Mature Agreement”
Cape Verde has granted licenses to 21 EU fishing boats to catch tuna in its EEZ, which would add millions of euros to the African nation’s coffers. Carlos Monteiro, National Director of...
Tri Marine’s NFD Adds New Seiner To Fleet
The Solomon Islands National Fisheries Development (NFD), a key affiliate of Tri Marine, has added a new purse seiner, ‘Solomon Amber,’ to its tuna fleet. The length of the vessel was...
