In a bid to gain public trust over the safety of a possible move for the famous Tsukiji tuna market, Tokyo’s government is inviting people to tour the new Toyosu site, where contamination...
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Galapagos Case: 4 Chinese Longliners Transshipped To IUU Carrier
Data mapping platform, Global Fishing Watch (GFW), which tracks the location and activities of commercial fishing vessels, has revealed information that links four Chinese-flagged tuna...
UK Retailers Paying High Prices For Sustainable Tuna
Overall demand among UK buyers for canned tuna has slipped notably, but a rising call for products carrying a sustainability claim, is seeing importers willing to pay out higher prices to get...
The Industry Speaks: The Rise Of Regulations & Certification
The ever-growing importance of sustainability and the industry’s shift towards it will be addressed when major players meet at the upcoming Americas Tuna Conference & Exhibition in Panama....
Atunlo Opens Portuguese Loining Plant For African Market
Spanish tuna processor Atunlo will open a new tuna loining plant in Portugal next year, as the firm’s current factories do not have enough capacity to satisfy an increased demand for precooked...
Brazil Could Lose Tuna Fishing Rights
Brazil could lose its international authorization to fish for tuna, as the nation has reportedly failed to submit data to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas...
Shanghai Kaichuang Issuing New Shares To Raise Cash
Shanghai Kaichuang, the Chinese owner of Spanish canned tuna brand Albo, will make a private placement of more than 38 million new shares to around 10 separate investors. The move will be...
Thai Canners Face Tough Competition In German Market
Thai packers are losing out to strong competition from Philippine and Vietnamese tuna canners, seeing their foothold in the German market shrink further, and they’ll need a new approach in...
WCPO Bigeye: The Extent Of Recovery
With another three years of data available to WCPFC scientists, the 2017 assessment for bigeye tuna shows a “significantly more optimistic stock status”, with good spawning potential seen...
How Much Are Global Tuna Fisheries Worth?
Tuna is the most valuable wild fish found in our oceans, and the world’s tuna fisheries contribute an estimated USD 42.2 billion to the global economy each year. Based on a report by The Pew...
Spanish Brands Push For Stronger Online Sales
Spanish tuna firms are keen to increase their online sales, and are now seeking an agreement with French e-commerce site Vente-privee. As companies in the country have stated that they are...
China Denies Fault In Protected Zone Near Ecuador
The Chinese government stresses that it respects the laws and regulations of Ecuador’s fisheries sector and has “clearly demanded” that vessels comply and refrain from entering a marine...
NGOs Want Removal Of Mexican Tuna Fisheries Officials
A group of environmental organizations under the Mexican Coalition in Defense of the Seas (Codemar), is calling for the removal of Mexican fisheries officials, as the group claims that they...
Spanish Albo Gives Boost To Chinese Owner, But Not Enough
Despite strong sales and profit results posted for Spanish Albo in the first half of this year, the numbers are not quite positive enough to keep the brand’s fairly new Chinese owner out of...
Industry To Discuss Pole & Line Tuna Progression
The world’s first one-by-one tuna fisheries conference will be held in the Azores, Portugal, next month, with discussions on how to ensure the progression of these operations high on the...
What Happens If A Sick Farm-Raised Tuna Escapes?
After several thousand specimens of Atlantic salmon escaped from a farm off the coast of Washington state in the US after a high tide, there has been widespread concern over how this might...
Trump To Drop Free Trade With S.Korea: Any Impact On Tuna?
President Trump is reported to be preparing for the US to withdraw from a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a major tuna catching nation, and such an exit is said to be likely to...
Bumble Bee & StarKist Both Replace Price Fixing Legal Teams
Both Bumble Bee and StarKist have replaced the firms that are representing them in the snowballing price fixing case regarding the US canned tuna market. In what’s described as a shake-up of...
More Japanese Choosing Beef Over Fresh Tuna Sashimi
Sashimi and other types of fresh tuna have long been the most popular forms of the fish in one of the biggest tuna consuming nations in the world; Japan. Now however, buyers in the country are...
Tuna Surge Pushes Spanish Exports To Decade High
A steep climb in tuna trade has been a major driver in the overall canned seafood shipments from Spanish exporters reaching a decade high this year, both in volume and value. In the first half...
