Processors in Thailand maintained their buying of frozen whole round tuna in the first nine months of this year. The total trade amounted to a whopping USD 1.03 billion, mainly driven by...
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NFI President & US Seafood Pioneer John Connelly Has Passed Away
John Connelly, former President of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and a pioneer in the American seafood trade for over twenty years, has passed away at the age of sixty-one....
Food Truck To Serve AENOR-Labelled Free Tuna To Madrileños
OPAGAC has come up with a novel marketing initiative with its “APR Takes the Sea to Madrid” event. A bus carrying the responsibly sourced tuna will be parked at Plaza de Felip II in...
Readers: GDST Implementation Not Likely Soon
After Pacifical was the first seafood company in the world to pass the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST’s) Capability Test, Atuna asked its readers their opinion on how...
Mazatlan Fishers Demand Revamp Of Fishing Sector
The fishing sector in Mazatlan, Mexico, is going through one of its darkest times. Catches have been dipping since the beginning of this year, and reportedly, tuna and...
REAL Tuna Can Becomes New Icon In Guayaquil
Ecuadorian Real tuna brand, owned by Nirsa, has come up with an interesting marketing strategy that is turning heads on social media. Four different stylized campaigns can be seen in...
ICCAT Bigeye TAC May Be Raised
Today, the ICCAT 23rd Special Commission Meeting in Portugal enters its last day after eight days of presentations, discussions, and negotiations. The official document with the conclusions of...
Bangkok Skipjack Market Waits For What Is To Come
A crisis in the Philippine tuna business and the expectation of larger skipjack quantities to arrive in Bangkok have perpetuated reluctance in the tuna trade among buyers and purse seine...
Spanish Processor Stopped Operations After Complaint Over Tuna
Spanish processor Coinba is set to resume operations after it had to stop production due to a health alert issued in Italy last week. This followed a complaint registered against a...
Pacific Islands Continue Increasing Thai Canned Tuna Imports
Pacific Island nations continued to increase their buying of canned tuna from Thai processors this year. In the first nine months, they raised their imports by over 40 percent compared to last...
Europêche And Orthongel Denounce “Militant NGOs” Disinformation Campaign
Europêche and Orthongel have hit back at activist NGOs, Bloom and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), for their "slanderous remarks" over Anne-France Mattlet. Since March, she is the Director...
Seiners Switch Off AIS To Hide From Pirates
A new study examined the intentional disabling of Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) in commercial fisheries. This often happened in four hot spots near the EEZs of West African nations,...
Sunflower & Soy Oil Prices Continue Sliding
Canned tuna processors can rejoice that edible oil prices, especially soy and sunflower, have dropped by a large percentage over the past couple of months. The latest data for vegetable oils...
EU To Review Ecuador’s Yellow Card In Two Weeks’ Time
Ecuador has been working relentlessly to improve its fisheries management and have its EU yellow card lifted (assigned in October 2019). The EU is set to carry out a new review within two...
Frinsa Eyeing Tuna Canning Operations In Florida
Spanish fish and meat canning company Frinsa will begin operations at Lakeland, Florida. The exact dates have not yet been confirmed and the firm is currently in talks with the Lakeland...
Bloom Accuses EU Fishing Organizations Of Influencing Fisheries Negotiation
French environmental NGO, BLOOM, and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) have formally complained to EU authorities over the appointment of Anne-France Mattlet in European...
EU Continues Waiving Origin Rule For 8,000 M/T Of Canned Tuna From Africa
Authorities in Brussels have given the green light to continue to waive the rules of origin for canned tuna and tuna loins from the Eastern and Southern Africa States (ESA) into the EU. This...
OPAGAC Pushes ICCAT To Strictly Monitor Asian Fleets
OPAGAC has called out Asian fleets for fishing extensively in Atlantic waters. They raised this issue at the RFMO annual Commission meeting taking place in Portugal. The group representing...
Brazilian Canners To Rely More On Baitboats
Brazil's artisanal vessels were highly successful when it came to catching tuna but there was much less purse seine activity last year. Baitboats caught the most skipjack compared to any other...
Malta’s 2021 Tuna Farming Operating Profit Shows Improvement
Malta's National Statistics Office (NSO) released a study highlighting the country's total turnover for aquaculture and tuna farming industries amounting to EUR 224.9 million in 2021. Nearly...
