A few weeks after the government of Papua New Guinea announced the USD 8.9 million financial aid for the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ), the national government has now decided to...
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Brazilian Tuna Landings Increase 550 Percent
Vessels from Ilhéus, on the eastern coast of Brazil have seen a 550 percent increase in tuna landings, according to Bahia Pesca. Since the end of 2018, vessels have landed more...
Massive Dip In Whole Round Discharges, Price Drop And Pre-cooked Loins Blamed
The Spanish ports of Ribeira and A Pobra have reported massive drops of whole round frozen tuna being unloaded. The discharges fell by more than 12,000 tons last year, a stark...
Basque Tuna Industry Looks To Next Generation
Generational continuity has been chosen as the key topic at this year’s Eurofishing congress. A panel will be held featuring prominent figures in the Basque tuna industry...
Explosives Found On Board Tuna Vessel
The Customs Office of Paita, Peru has intervened with a foreign tuna vessel with a cargo of hydrobiological products and cartridges of explosives. The Ecuadorian flagged vessel,...
Illegal Bluefin Smuggling Reaches National High Court
Legal proceedings for the illicit bluefin trafficking valued at EUR 25 million (USD 28.5 million) per year have been transferred from the local Valencian court to the...
Will Tuna Sales Benefit From High Salmon Prices?
Last week, Atuna reported that prices for salmon will continue to hike in 2019 despite a growth in supply. The price range is expected to be at NOK 55 (USD 6.41) per kg to NOK 65...
Atuna Poll: Lowest Price For SKJ1.8:BKK Projected To Be Over USD 1,100
Atuna reported on the slow trading in Bangkok prices as the year began, flatlining at the rate of USD 1,300 M/T since December 2018. In a separate poll, majority of Atuna voters...
Coast Guard Cutter Back On Duty In South Pacific
The Coast Guard Cutter Melon (WHEC 717) continues patrolling the South Pacific in its mission to curb illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, following a stop in Fiji in...
StarKist Settles Walmart’s Tuna Price-Fixing Claims For USD 20M
Tuna giant StarKist Co. has paid off USD 20.5 million worth of settlements to Walmart in a bid to resolve all antitrust claims related to price fixing charges against the...
Laptop Switched For Same Weight Tuna Cans
After a two-day trial, a US jury this week convicted a man for causing uproar and firing shots in a Maryland shopping mall.The shopper had bought a laptop computer, but then returned...
ISSF Finds That Only 5 Tuna Stocks Pass MSC Criteria
Only five out of 19 commercial tuna stocks earned a passing score for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), according to a report published by the ISSF, the tuna industry's own...
Mercury In Tuna Related To Location Caught, New Study Finds
An investigation has been launched into the levels of methylmercury contained in tuna, in a bid to understand why the concentrations of this compound vary by geographical region. ...
EU Preps Help For Its Fishermen If Hit By No-Deal Brexit
The European Commission proposed two contingency plans to mitigate the impacts of a possible “no deal” Brexit on EU fisheries. The first proposal allows fishermen and operators from...
OPAGAC Pledges Change Towards Human Rights Violations
The Spanish organization OPAGAC had joined the United Nations Global Compact with the aim of promoting human rights for fishermen in the sector, particularly in Asian fleets. By...
Overwhelming Proof Surfaces For $850 M Tuna Fraud Probe
Over a million pages of transcripts of phone calls, emails, bank transfers and financial documents will be used as evidence in the USD 850 million tuna bond scandal, according to Federal...
Plans For Joint Fishing Agency In Vigo, Manta Proposed
The President of Central American Parliament has begun discussions with the intent to establish an Ibero-American fishing agency. President Irma Amaya met with...
PNA Announces VDS Expansion
Members of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have outlined a list of significant developments they plan to implement in the next few years. The eight members alongside...
Seafood Summit Highlights Female Leaders
Over 100 top female leaders in the seafood sector attended the third annual Women in Seafood Leadership Summit by Intrafish to discuss how empowerment of women in the industry....
New Study Reports Cannibalism In Bluefin Larvae
Cannibalism has been found to be a feeding strategy in bluefin tuna according to a study in the Western Mediterranean. A team of researchers working in the Balearic Sea carried out a...
