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Atuna Readers Split On FAO Code On Tuna Cans
Atuna readers are divided on whether mentioning the FAO area code on tuna cans is useful for consumers, according to the results of our latest poll. A total of 44 percent of respondents...
Maldivian P+L Premium Raw Material Losing Value In Bangkok?
Pole-and-line skipjack has historically been traded at premium values compared to purse seiner catches. One-by-one fishers from the Maldives and Indonesia supply the vast majority to Bangkok,...
Spanish Frinsa Reports Annual Record Results
Spain's largest canned tuna processing company, Frinsa, closed its 2019 financial year with a profit of EUR 31.1 million (USD 36.8 million). The family-owned business is the leading...
Pacific Skipjack Price Gains Strength, Climbs Higher
The tuna industry’s Bangkok benchmark market is seeing a rise in skipjack price, which is keeping its upward pattern observed earlier during this month with indications that it has yet to hit...
COVID-19 Guidelines Introduced For Entire Pacific Tuna Fishery
Since yesterday, there are new COVID-19 Operating Protocols for the Tuna Fishing Sector in the Pacific region. Until now, there were no common rules, often leading to discussions and...
Gabon Moors Albacora Seiner For Alleged Shark Bycatch
A tuna purse seiner belonging to the Spanish Albacora Group was taken to the port of Libreville by Gabonese authorities for allegedly catching shark. The vessel in question, ‘Albacora Caribe’...
Chinese Captain Arrested For Killing Four Men, Recorded On Video
A 43-year-old Chinese longliner captain linked to a six-year-old murder case has been arrested in Taipei, Taiwan, after entering the Port of Kaohsiung on Saturday. He is suspected of ordering...
Massive Turnaround Triples Vanuatu’s Seiner Catch
About 15 years ago, the Vanuatu fleet used to be one of the largest within the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the number of vessels and their catches have declined to an insignificant level....
Bumble Bee’s New TV Ads Promote Healthy Tuna Protein
US tuna brand Bumble Bee has recently announced a new creative marketing campaign – YES! BUMBLE BEE! – to promote the many health benefits of its tuna products. The campaign kicked off...
Spanish Processor Temporarily Closes Plant
Atunlo has temporarily closed its tuna cannery in Santoña in Basque, Spain, after more than ten workers tested positive for COVID-19. Thereafter, the company started testing the entire staff...
Can Blue Bonds Financing Create Tuna Stock Recovery?
On Thursday, Planet Tracker, a non-profit financial think tank, published a briefing paper regarding blue bonds and how it will finance the recovery of fish stocks. In the study, the NGO...
Bad Catches Cut Quarter Of Taiwanese Skipjack Supply To Thai Canners
An unusual period of bad Pacific catches has led the Taiwanese seiner fleet, the main supplier of skipjack raw material to Bangkok, to deliver a much lower volume in the first half of 2020...
Sentencing Scheduled For Execs On Tuna Price-Fixing
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has revealed the sentence hearing dates for three former executives from Bumble Bee and StarKist who served as key witnesses in the canned tuna price-fixing...
Nestlé Launches Sensational Vuna – Vegan Tuna
Swiss international brand Nestlé has released the Sensational Vuna, a plant-based tuna alternative in a glass jar. The company introduced the line under its vegan brand, Garden Gourmet. The...
Philippines Skipjack Landings Surge In Q2
Skipjack catches by large and small seiners flying the Philippine flag surged in the second quarter of this year (Q2 2020) with overall tuna fisheries volume increasing by 6.8 percent. Most of...
Cheap Japanese Albacore Floods Bangkok In 2020
Low-cost Japanese albacore flooded the Bangkok market in the first six months of 2020, which boosted the overall import volume of this species and hitting a peak for the past five years. Thai...
Ecuador Wants 350 Miles EEZ To Keep Chinese Longliners Out
For several weeks, the Ecuadorian fishing industry has been complaining about the presence of a Chinese longliner fleet near the nation’s EEZ around the Galapagos Islands, saying that this...
Chris Lischewski Reported To Arizona Prison
After further investigations on the whereabouts of former CEO of Bumble Bee, Chris Lischewski, a reliable source has confirmed with Atuna that he reported to the minimum-security prison in...
Dardanel Accused Of Keeping Factory Workers In “Concentration Camps”
Labor unions are up in arms over the treatment of employees by Turkish tuna company, Dardanel, located in the northwestern province of Çanakkale. Protests have been held over the poor labor...
