Grocery brands may struggle to reach even one third of their growth expectations in US retail sales this year, as shifting shopper behavior sees consumers more often favoring smaller names and...
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Taiwan Takes Punitive Action To Get Rid Of Yellow Card
One of the world’s biggest tuna catchers, Taiwan, has been punishing illegal fishing violators with hefty fines this year, showing that it is making serious efforts to rid itself of a...
China: A Future Global Tuna Hub?
Efforts from China to up its tuna fishing and processing activities have been noticed in the last few years, and it is now also predicted that the nation will become a leader in seafood trade...
Serious Chinese Fishing Breaches In Pacific Tuna Grounds
Three Chinese vessels and one flagged to Taiwan have been caught for what’s described as “serious breaches of fishing licenses”, as part of a surveillance mission covering the tuna fishery in...
Basque Albacore Catch: A Stop To Growth This Season?
The current albacore tuna catching season in the Spanish Basque country could see an end to almost continuous growth in volume, as the EU DG Mare utters its belief that landings could be...
Strong Skipjack Surge From EPO Olympic Fishing
With seiners fishing Olympic style in the EPO in the first months of the year, overall tuna catches have climbed notably compared to last year’s tonnages, with skipjack landings the main...
Restricted US Waters To Open For Longline Fleet?
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, also known as Wespac, is working to craft new explanations for “non-commercial fishing” and “cultural fishing”. A change could...
Thai Canners Need Govt. Help To Deal With Strong Baht
The Thai baht’s rising strength against the US dollar makes it the best performing currency in Asia this year, movement that is causing tuna canners in the country to fear foreign exchange...
NOAA Funds Bluefin Research After “Not Endangered” Decision
Researchers are receiving over USD 220,000 from the US Government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study how to protect the Atlantic bluefin stock. The funding comes...
After Micro-Brewing, Micro-Canning The Next Trend?
Micro-canning is gaining momentum on Pacific islands and with regional and possibly global uptake, it could take a similar development path as micro-brewing has in the western world. Small...
Tri Marine To Increase Solomon Fleet With $7m+ Loan
Tri Marine’s Solomon Islands subsidiary is being lent over USD 7 million to support sustainable tuna production and employment on the Pacific island nation, financing which will help fund the...
The ‘Under The Radar’ EPO Fleet Strongly Boosting Catch
With tuna catches in the Eastern Pacific having shown positive results in the first half of this year, one fleet that’s not often talked about has had a more notable increase than the rest....
Sharp Rise In Bigeye Catch % Also In EPO
A trend also seen in the Western Pacific, there has been a sharp rise in the share that bigeye tuna catch is making up of total landings in the EPO this year; a situation likely driven by...
Spanish Exports Thrive Off Canned Tuna Shipments
A recent recovery in Spanish canned tuna shipments, especially within the EU, has contributed to an overall boost in seafood exports from Spain, with tuna representing well over half of total...
Frabelle Tuna Plant In Kiribati – A Viable Venture?
Major Filipino tuna firm, Frabelle, is talking again of plans to start processing tuna on the PNA island nation of Kiribati, a venture that was first hinted at back in 2015, and will include...
Tough Times Ahead For UK Fresh Tuna Sales?
Even though the fresh tuna category has been growing in UK retail sales recently, a hit could be coming for the segment, as one source explains that high raw material prices are likely to...
IO Catch Quotas: Seiners Switching From Free-School To FAD?
Yellowfin catch quotas implemented in the Indian Ocean could lead to a situation of less free-school sets and more FAD fishing in the remaining months of the year, in a bid for seiners to keep...
Strong Financial Recovery For Chinese Pingtan
Major Chinese fishing firm, Pingtan Marine Enterprise has seen a massive boost to its turnover in the first half of this year. In 2016 the company made efforts to get out of a financial slump,...
Was 2016 The Peak Of Thai Union Tuna Sales?
For this year and next, TU is expected to sell less tuna tonnage than in 2016, a trend that fits with recent indications of diversification shown from the leading firm. Last year, Thai Union’s...
More Markets Drive Vietnam’s Tuna Exports Upwards
Positive growth for Vietnamese tuna exports is continuing, with strong sales values recorded for the first half of the year. In addition to higher tuna prices likely pushing this upwards, an...
