Startup Gathered Foods, the owner of plant-based seafood brand Good Catch, has managed to attract another investor during its oversubscribed funding round that took in USD 32 million. General...
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Trade Dynamics Between America’s And Europe’s Tuna Industries
As the European continent is the largest canned tuna consumer area, its trading standards and practices are of high importance to the industry. On the first day of the AMAtuna2020 Adolfo...
Bigeye Stock In Atlantic Needs More Improvement
The stock status of bigeye in the Atlantic is a much-debated issue in the tuna industry and this is unsurprising given the fact that this fish is overfished. Member countries at the...
USD 5 Million Invested In Good Catch Fish-Free Tuna
Greenleaf Foods, SPC, owner of leading plant-based protein brands such as Lightlife and Field Roast has invested USD 5 million in Gathered Foods Corporation, makers of Good Catch® plant-based...
Lischewski Pushes For Acquittal On Price-Fixing
Former CEO of Bumble Bee, Christopher Lischewski, has taken a step to overturn his conviction with a US federal court by submitting an acquittal motion, saying that there was insufficient...
Does New US-China Trade Deal Change Tuna Tariffs?
The US has inked the first phase of a new trade agreement with China after nearly two years of escalating economic tensions between the two countries. Though it seems a promising outlook for a...
Indonesian AP2HI Sets Sights On MSC For Its Tuna Fisheries
The Indonesian Pole & Line and Handline Fisheries Association (AP2HI) has contracted third-party independent auditors, SAI Global, to undertake full assessment of its skipjack and...
Maruha Nichiro Buys Toyo Reizo’s Bluefin Farms
One of the world’s largest seafood companies, Maruha Nichiro Group, announced a deal this week to purchase the bluefin farming operations of Toyo Reizo Co, the latter owned by Mitsubishi...
The Flaws Ecuador Must Address To Satisfy The EU
When the European Commission (EC) handed a yellow card to Ecuador last October for the country’s inadequate measures on combating illegal fishing, it sent shock waves across the tuna...
US FDA Too Lax In Applying Law In Histamine Case Says Pew
The Pew Charitable Trusts has taken issue with the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) response to an outbreak of histamine poisoning from yellowfin products, saying that the agency is...
GTA Receives IOTC Observer Status Despite India’s Protest
The Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) recently received its observer status with the IOTC despite India having objected to it late last year. On January 10, Susan Imende,...
Callipo Reports Steady Sales Growth In Organic Jars
The positive trend in Callipo Conservo Alimentari’s turnover since 2013 continued in 2019 with the company seeing an increase of ten percent. Last year, the Italian-based tuna and seafood...
Bangkok Skipjack Price Shows First Sign Of Turnaround
Skipjack trading has resumed in the benchmark Bangkok market and although it has been slow start, there are indications that the declining price trend might be turning...
Frinsa Offers Direct Tuna Purchases Through WhatsApp
The Spanish canned tuna processor group, Frinsa, is betting on its digital channels to better cater its tuna and seafood brand to its clientele. Thus, the...
Industry Sues Ghanaian Gov’t Over “Exorbitant” Tuna License Hike
The Ghana Tuna Association has sued the country’s Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development over the recent increase in tuna licensing fees stating that it is exorbitant. The Ministry...
FRIME Looking To Double Its Infrastructure Near Barcelona
The Catalan tuna processor, FRIME, is looking to expand its production by building a new processing plant in Castellolí, near Barcelona, Spain. The company, which has experienced major growth...
Liberia Wants To Revitalize Fisheries Sector
Liberia is looking to revitalize its fisheries sector and increase its tuna fishing activities. The country’s National Fisheries & Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) has been in...
Bumble Bee’s Bonuses Approved Except For Three Top Execs
A US Bankruptcy Court judge has approved an incentive plan that covers 37 Bumble Bee executives, stating that the evidence showed that these employees were being properly motivated to...
Albacora Steps Back From Barreras Shipyard
On Monday, Spanish seafood company, Albacora, and Mexican petroleum company, Pemex, transferred their political rights over the Barreras shipyard in Vigo to...
Judge Defers Ruling, Dispute Over 3 Bumble Bee Managers’ Bonuses
A US federal judge has stated that she needs more time to consider the proposals put forth by tuna company Bumble Bee regarding its bonus plans for select executives in its Chapter...
