Landlocked Bolivia continues to claim rights to tuna fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) and the Atlantic Ocean (AO). The nation even intends to build a tuna processing plant...
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FDA Updates Advice: Eating Tuna Benefits Your Health
Worries about mercury in tuna and other seafood fueled by many US organizations including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the years has resulted in less consumption of...
World’s Largest Tuna TV Commercials Collection On Atuna
At Atuna, we aim to keep you up to date with every aspect of the tuna industry. Hence, we also want our readers to be aware of how brands market, promote, and use...
Heavy Cost-Related Regulations Kills US Seiners’ Profitability
This week, South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced that it will be downsizing its fleet by the end of this year – eight tuna purse seiners will be sold off from its original...
Chinese Allowed To Fish In PhiIippines EEZ A Presidential Misstep
In what could only be seen as a political misstep, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte might have given the Chinese President Xi Jinping the idea that if there is a...
Internship At Pacifical For Trainees From PNA
The internship program is aimed at passing on experience and knowledge to trainees about how tuna is caught, supplied, processed and marketed. Trainees join Pacifical’s Market Development and...
Spanish Atlantic Seiners In Port For Bigeye Quota
Spain has issued a month-long ban during the month of July for seiners fishing for bigeye in the Eastern Atlantic and West African waters. The General Fisheries...
Malaysia’s Labuan Boosting Domestic Tuna Market With MoU
The MP of the Malaysian territory of Labuan, Datuk Rozman Isli, attended the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zumbayu Enterprise (Dr. Tuna), Bakti Property (Latuna)...
GrupoMar Aims To Catch 25,000 M/T Of Seafood
Mexican company GrupoMar hopes to close 2019 with a catch of 25,000 M/T of fish products. According to the Director of Operation of the group,...
US NGO Developing ‘Natural Currency Standard’ For Pacific Islands
In collaboration with island countries in the Pacific, Conservation International (CI) is working to develop a ‘Natural Currency Standard’ for the region. This is an...
New Tuna Cannery For Century Pacific In 2019
Business is going well for Philippines-based cannery, Century Pacific Food Inc. The company has set aside PHP 2 billion (USD 39.1 million) as capital expenditures (capex) of which half will be...
Lischewski’s Co-Conspirators Will Testify During Trial
A federal judge has decided to allow co-conspirators in the canned tuna price-fixing case to testify against former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, Chris Lischewski....
EU-Mercosur Agreement Positive For Brazilian Tuna Trade
After 20 years in the making, the EU and several South American countries, which are members of Mercosur, have reached an agreement on trade. The partnership, among other...
Leading Danish Tuna Brand Glyngøre Sold
Orkla Foods have sold the Glyngøre tuna brand to Amanda Seafoods A/S. The move was done in an attempt for Orkla to reduce portfolio complexity and concentrate on...
SPTC Downsizes, Sells Off 8 Of Its US-Flagged Seiners
South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) has announced that it will be reducing its tuna purse seiners by more than half the number of its 14 US-flagged vessels. By the end of the year,...
EU-Vietnam Trade Deal Sets 7-Year Tariff Reduction For Canned Tuna
Canned tuna prices from Vietnam will not be free of duty within the EU immediately as some importers and VN processors might have hoped. On June 30, the EU and Vietnam signed a Free Trade...
A Stop To Trickery Of Chartering Vessels Evading IO Yellowfin Quota
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has decided to put rules in place that should end the practice of chartering of seiners to utilize them as temporary transfer to...
Spanish Canners Expand Share Of Italian Tuna Market
Canned tuna is one of the top five favored food products by Italian consumers. This is clearly shown in the number of imports of this item into the European country -- the...
Flywire Wants To Turn E-Monitoring Into A Profit Boosting Technology
On-board electronic monitoring can be more beneficial for fishermen than they think. The founders of the American company Flywire Cameras, Jacob Isaac-Lowery, and Sarah Alessi,...
IOTC Closes Loopholes On Deployed And Active FADs
Several major loopholes in the IOTC regulations on FADs that were exploited by several fleets have been closed. Following a Seychelles’ proposal to tighten the management of FADs,...
