A Costa Rican court has partially ruled in favor of Jose Maria Villalta, a legislator who filed a lawsuit against a government-backed agency for “giving away” the nation’s tuna resources....
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Bumble Bee Owner Gets Partial Relief In Price Fixing Case
Lion Capital, a UK-based private equity firm and owner of Bumble Bee Foods, has been allocated some respite in the ongoing price fixing case, with a favorable ruling from a California federal...
Japanese Bluefin Quota Increase Request Rejected
Despite a recent stock assessment of Pacific bluefin tuna showing a modest increase from 2.6 to 3.3 percent of original population size, Japan’s proposal for an increase in its fishing quota...
Solomon Islands’ Noro Continues Tuna Expansion
More than four decades ago, it was the tuna business that laid the foundation of the Noro Township in Solomon Islands’ Western Province. After a period of stagnation that saw the town’s first...
American Samoa GDP Shrinks As Tuna Exports Decline
A sharp drop in tuna exports led to a significant contraction in the American Samoan gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017. Tuna exports fell as one of the two processing facilities on the...
INTERPOL Gets Involved In Efforts To Combat IUU Fishing
A joint operation against IUU fishing in the Pacific saw the involvement of INTERPOL. The four-week exercise, called Operation Nasse, highlights the global coordinated effort to combat illegal...
Alfonso Miranda Reappointed As IATTC Vice President
The President of the Peruvian Chamber of Tuna, Alfonso Miranda Eyzaguirre, has been reelected as Vice President of the IATTC. Miranda has described his appointment for the second term as...
Calvo Releases 2017 Annual Report
Spain’s canned tuna market leader, Calvo, has released its annual report for 2017 in which it announces that last year ended with a new turnover record of around EUR 618 million (USD 720...
Sajo Accused Of Using Pressure Tactics To Boost Sales
Some employees of Sajo have claimed that the South Korean deep sea fishing company forced them to purchase gift sets before the Chuseok and Lunar New Year holidays over the past decade in...
Influx Of Recreational Fishing In Northern Pacific
Washington’s Westport Marina attracts droves of commercial fishing boats and recreational trawlers by the hundreds each year, during the summer months when abundant schools of North Pacific...
Port Lincoln Opposes Oil Exploration In Bid To Save Farms
The Port Lincoln City council has become the 13th local council to oppose oil drilling in Australia’s southern coast. The issue has divided the community as the regions bluefin farmers have...
Japan’s Quota Proposal Talks Underway
The WCPFC’s Northern Committee has kicked off talks on whether or not to increase the catch quota for Pacific bluefin tuna, as proposed by the Japanese government. The suggestion to increase...
US Stops Purchasing Chinese Seafood Amid Tariff Threat
Seafood buyers in the US have halted their orders of Chinese seafood as the threat of increased duties looms, according to industry sources. The additional 10-percent duty on Chinese products,...
Prosecutor Withdraws Case Against Alliance Executives
The Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Makati, a city in the Philippines’ Metro Manila capital region- the country’s financial hub and location of the stock exchange- has agreed to withdraw a case...
Initiative Aims To Turn Pacific Tuna Ports Green
Headway in the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Green Pacific Port initiative was accelerated in a collaborative venture between island nations of the Pacific, with deliberations on the...
Peru Wants To Process 100,000 M/T By 2021
As part of its 2021 Bicentennial Plan, Peru seeks to expand its tuna processing capacity to 100,000 metric tons. The weighty figure might seem an ambitious reach, considering that the local...
High Value Yellowfin Boosts GenSan’s Business
Region 12 of the Philippines, which includes its ‘tuna capital’ General Santos, has retained its top position in terms of value of commercial seafood production. Tuna continues to play a...
OPAGAC & Tunacons Sign MOU On IATTC Cooperation
Tunacons and the Producers’ Organization of Large Tuna Fishing Freezer Vessels (OPAGAC) have taken a step towards formalizing a collaboration that will prioritize activities and facilitate the...
Sajo’s Diversification Plan Raises Questions
A slowdown in South Korean market has forced one of the three major local tuna industry players, Sajo, to diversify. One of the areas the South Korean firm has been exploring is the meat...
Main FAD Buoy Supplier: We’ll Retrieve Our Buoys To Clean Oceans
Following the announcement of its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup project, Spanish firm Marine Instruments has revealed further details on how it plans to help extract plastic waste from...
