The Spanish canning association has urged the European Commission to keep a close eye on Thailand following the withdrawal of their IUU yellow card. ANFACO contends that...
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Chicken Of The Sea Settles Anti-trust Lawsuit With Retailers
Thai Union’s Chicken of the Sea (COS) International has reached a cash settlement with 29 companies to resolve an anti-trust lawsuit concerning a price fixing collusion from 2010 to...
Mini Purse Seiner On Fire In Mexico
A purse seine tuna boat moored at the Mazatlan dock in Sinaloa, Mexico caught fire last Monday at around 14:30 hours. The purse seine vessel “Tizoc” was anchored at...
Montenegro Dreams About Its Own Local Tuna Brand
Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country in Eastern Europe with less than 700,000 inhabitants and with a 295 km Mediterrenean coastline, is planning to open its own tuna farming and...
Venezuelan Tuna Fishermen Accused Of Piracy In The Caribbean
The economic misery in debt-wreck Venezuela has driven many unemployed local fishermen to become pirates, according to Colin Freeman, foreign correspondent of the British newspaper The...
Heavy Users Of Rio Mare Tuna Can Win Daily Gift Packages
Leading Italian tuna brand Rio Mare boosts its sales in the beginning of the year through discount promotions from the period of January 7 to March 17, 2019. Consumers may also choose to...
No Violations In Panama-China Black Skipjack Deal
China is not breaching any national law regarding fishing and trade, according to the Water Resources Authority of Panama (ARAP). All requirements concerning inspection, quarantine, and...
EU Q3 Canned Imports Soften, Strong Rise In Prices
During Q3 of 2018, overall EU import volume of canned tuna fell by 2 percent, with importers paying 10 percent higher CFR prices across markets. Major buyers in...
EC Lifts Thailand’s Yellow Card Status
After almost four years, the European Commission finally delists Thailand from the yellow card warning for actions in combating illegal, unreported and...
Scientists Decry Outdated Bycatch Prevention Measures
A research paper challenging the current piecemeal framework for managing bycatch of at-risk species was accepted for publication by the scientific journal Reviews in Fish...
18 More Arrests In Crackdown On $850 M Tuna Bond Scandal
A series of charges continues against those involved in the USD 2 billion fraudulent loans in Mozambique, including a USD 850 million debt scam incurred to finance a state-owned tuna fishing...
EU Canners Rapidly Exhaust Duty-Free Quota For Tuna Loins
More than 41,000 M/T from six tariff codes for frozen pre-cooked tuna loins are already awaiting allocation for the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) set at 30,000 M/T for the European Union from...
Tuna Reefer Carrier Runs Aground In Marshalls
A Chinese-flagged freezer fish carrier, Ou Ya Leng No.6, with a 24-member crew has been at the center of government investigations since it was...
Dhofar Fisheries Plans USD 26M Cannery In Sezad
A plot of land totaling an area of 41 square meters has been allocated in a leasing agreement signed by Dhofar Fisheries and Food Industries and Oman’s Special Economic Zone...
WCP Seiners Must Switch To 100% LERFADs By 2020
Starting January 1, 2020, the Western and Central Pacific Commission agreed to adopt the use of lower-entangling FAD (LERFAD) designs across tuna fisheries in the wider Pacific Ocean. WCPFC is...
Ocean Cleanup Cuts Short First Pacific Trip
Self-dubbed “the largest cleanup in history,” Netherlands-based The Ocean Cleanup project has announced its plans to suspend operations while repairs are made to a detached 19-meter...
Vietnam Reaps Benefits From US – China Trade War
The US remains as Vietnam’s largest export market for tuna, accounting for 34 percent of total export value in this sector. VASEP attributes the upward trend to US seafood importers who have...
Ex-bankers Arrested In London Over USD 850 Million Tuna Fraud
Five days after the arrest of former Mozambican finance minister, three ex-Credit Suisse Group AG bankers were arrested in London over alleged involvement in the USD 2 billion worth of...
Bluefin Fetches $3 Million At New Tokyo Market
Despite the relocation of Tokyo's Tsukiji market (now Toyosu) to its new waterfront location, its ceremonial tradition remained intact with auctioneers yelling prices for the much-coveted...
PNG Invests Millions In Stranded Tuna Production Zone
After almost a decade of promises and tall expectations but little to no action, Papua New Guinea’s highly-anticipated tuna production site, the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ),...
