The Oceano Seafood Company, a South American corporation made up of Peruvian and Ecuadorian entrepreneurs, have bought the Peruvian canned tuna brand, A-1. The brand was formerly owned...
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Bangkok Yellowfin Intake Continues To Slide In Q3
The imports of frozen yellowfin landed in Thai ports during the first three quarters of 2019 (Q3) dropped to their lowest level in at least five years. Boat owners failed...
Greenpeace Sees “Modern Slavery” On Asian Tuna Seiners
Greenpeace South Asia recently published a report ‘Seabound: The Journey to Modern Slavery on the High Seas’. The NGO investigated the living and working conditions of migrant...
FDA Warns Indonesian Tuna Firm Over Flawed HAACP
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to an Indonesian tuna company, PT. SIG ASIA, stating the firm’s HACCP plan and its monitoring records have...
Glacial Progress On Key Priorities At WCPFC 2019
Negotiations are still ongoing at the 16th Session of the WCPFC gathering at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on the essential issues of the tuna industry in the region. However, little...
FFA Reiterates Its Founding Role In WCPFC
The Director-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, has highlighted that FFA's members were the founders of the Tuna...
Walmart Introduces MSC Tuna Competitively Under Great Value
US retailer, Walmart, has introduced two pole-and-line caught MSC tuna products – one Solid White Albacore and one Chunk Light (skipjack), both in water –...
Cape Verdian Investment To Boost Frescomar’s Fillet Production
Cape Verdian tuna processing plant Frescomar expects that the investment contract with the local government will result in a 20 percent increase in its production by 2020. The...
GFW Satelite Data Tracks Panamanian Tuna Seiners, Sometimes
A few months ago, Panama underlined the necessity of monitoring vessels and transshipments and combating illegal fishing. For greater transparency and to enforce compliance in its fleet,...
Accurate Transhipment Tuna Weights With Dynamometers
Measuring exactly how much tuna a purse seiner catches is not an easy task. In fact, to this day, observers and purse seiner captains work with estimates. Traditional scales are not suitable...
Big Cut In Q3 W/R Skipack Deliveries In Thailand
During the first nine months of the year (Q3), Thai buyers' demand for whole frozen skipjack sharply decreased in comparison to previous years. The low buying interest for...
MSC & SFP Experts Join ISSF Environmental Stakeholder Committee
Two new members have joined the Environmental Stakeholder Committee of the ISSF -- Bill Holden from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Alexia Morgan from the Sustainable Fisheries...
Thai Union Loses One-Third Of Its Market Value
Thai Union shares have been continuously sliding on the Bangkok stock exchange. The Thailand-based seafood company and world's largest canned tuna player saw one-third of its market...
No EU Tuna Food Safety Alerts In November
No tuna-related food safety alerts were published by the EU Regulatory Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) for the entire month of November. The agency provides the latest...
Costa Rican Fishers Demand Stricter Surveillance On International Seiners
In Costa Rica, volunteers aiming to present a request to the government for better surveillance of purse seiner fishing in the country’s waters have already collected thousands...
Filipino Fishers To Earn Blockchain Tokens For Their Tuna
Fishermen in Philippines can soon earn a peso-backed stablecoin from a blockchain-based fish traceability pilot program called Tracey. The initiative aims to facilitate sustainable...
Thai Processors Absorbed Less Raw Material In Q3
The imports of frozen tuna raw material in Thailand continued its decline in the third quarter of 2019 (Q3) and the figures showed an overall depression year-on-year. ...
NFI & ISSF React On Conviction Of Their Ex-Chair Lischewski
Long before a federal jury found Chris Lischewski guilty of price-fixing US canned tuna, he was the Chair of important seafood organizations, specifically NFI and ISSF....
Bangkok Skipjack Holding At Depressed Level
The benchmark Bangkok tuna market SKJK1.8:BKK has temporarily stabilized, sources have said to Atuna. A limited demand from the domestic canning industry, the...
WCPFC 16 Key Priorities Include Proper Harvest Strategies
The 16th Regular Session of the WCPFC is beginning today and member nations, governmental organizations, NGOs, and other parties will be discussing numerous core issues that affect the...
