Last week, Atuna reported about the status of Indonesia's fishing industry, including its struggles to develop a tuna fishery sector due to a lack of a powerhouse, according to...
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From Edible Ink To Pan: Vegan ‘Tuna Steak’ To Be 3D-Printed Soon
A Spanish company is introducing 3D-printed vegan steaks in the market. Nova Meat founder Giuseppe Scionti hopes to expand its food options in the future by creating 3D-printed vegan...
Atuna Readers Do Not Trust EU Documentation
In the past two weeks, Atuna has asked your opinion on the EU Catch Documentation Scheme amid the massive crackdown on the illegally-harvested bluefin in Malta, which revealed large...
Netflix Starts Series About Drug Lord Within The Tuna Industry
Netflix has added the Spanish series titled Vivir Sin Permiso (Life Without Permission) to its portfolio. The show was first shown on Spain's network, Telecinco. Now...
Labor Shortage Crisis Creates Conflict Over Tuna Workers’ Nationality
A conflict has risen between StarKist in American Samoa and Samoa due to plans to recruit 200 qualified guest workers from Samoa to work as fish cleaners. Specifically the company is...
FDA’s New Strategy For Tuna Imports
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that a third-party certification program has been created to ensure audit standards for foreign facilities. The FDA will also partner with...
Manta SKJ Price Inches Up Due To Low Supply
This week prices for whole round skipjack tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean tuna processing hub of Manta, Ecuador were concluded at USD 1,600 M/T, representing a 9 percent...
Two Filipino Fishing Crew Escape From Onboard Abuse
Two Filipino fishing crew who escaped maltreatment on their vessel have been brought back to their home country, following a rescue by the Vietnamese Navy in the West Philippine...
Indonesia Lacks Tuna Powerhouse
Despite being the largest archipelagic country in the world with over 17,000 islands and vast coastlines, Indonesia is still struggling to develop its tuna fishery sector due to a lack of a...
First Australian Bluefin To Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport
For the very first time, an international air cargo of boxes of Australian bluefin have been flown to Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport. The bluefin cargo was distributed to numerous domestic...
Innovative Method Of Tuna Fishing Faces Funding Issue
Commercial fisherman Robert Nunes is campaigning for a new method of fishing to be used by the Costa Rican tuna industry. The method is called Greenstick and can be used to specifically...
Increased Aussie Aerial Surveillance Over 15 Pacific Island Nations Waters
An aerial cooperation agreement has been signed between delegates from Australia and the Marshall Islands Fisheries. The agreement means that with Australian funding, aerial surveillance...
PNG Industry Starts MSC Assessment On FAD Fisheries
The Papua New Guinea Fishing Industry Association has formally entered into full MSC assessment for the purse seine skipjack and yellowfin tuna fishery caught with anchored and...
‘I’m Surprised They Didn’t Kill Her’ – Industry Source Talks About Fisheries Director
“I’m surprised they didn’t kill Andreina [Fenech Farrugia] after she clamped down on some operators in recent years,” an unnamed source industry told Times of Malta in an...
Spanish Salt-cured “Tuna Ham” Becomes A 2018 Hit
A tuna niche business focused on Mojama Spanish Style Tuna Loins is becoming more popular as the Regulatory Council for the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Isla...
‘Inferno’ Fire Wrecks Over 30 Indonesian Tuna Vessels
A massive fire in the port docks of North Jakarta, Indonesia has resulted in a temporary closure, forcing fishermen to remain on land while the clean-up and investigations...
Palau Joins 2023 IUU Pledge
Palau has recently made a pledge to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) by 2023. By January 1, 2020, the country will implement the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS),...
Aceh Tuna Exporters Halt Exports To Japan
Exporters of tuna in Aceh, Indonesia have stopped delivering tuna to Japan due to an almost three-fold increase in air cargo tariffs in the past month....
Marshall Islands, Thailand Sign Deal To Stop Underreporting On Transshipments
Frozen tuna transshipments from mostly purse seiner vessels and longliners to refrigerated carrier bulk cargo vessels is a daily occurrence in the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port...
First Indonesian Handline Fishery Enters MSC Assessment
North American tuna company Anova Food's Fair Trade Fishery has announced its application for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) full assessment, making it the first handline tuna...
