Around 2,000 StarKist Samoa employees will be out of work next week as the cannery will temporarily close for the second time this year due to tuna supply issues. There is not enough tuna to...
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Calvo Aims To Triple Sales Growth
The Calvo Group is expecting to close 2016 with a turnover of about EUR 860 million, 9 percent more than last year. Last year the sales of Spain’s market leader in canned tuna increased with 3...
Princes Expands MSC Range With Pacifical Tuna
UK company Princes has announced that it will add products with the MSC ecolabel to its range of tuna and other seafood products, becoming the first brand or supermarket in the nation to...
Mexicans Enter Critical MSC Stakeholder Stage
The Mexican group, Pacific Alliance for Sustainable Tuna (PAST), has announced that the 36 seiners of its member companies have been recommended for MSC certification, in a statement that...
Tuna Smugglers Caught Red Handed
Smugglers have been found carrying 1,438 cans of tuna and 6.6 tons of other fish in Cucuta, Colombia, at the border with Venezuela. The tax and customs police seized the fish with a total...
Worries Over “Low Cost” Security Guards On Seiners
The Spanish Socialist Party has raised alarm regarding the selection process of security guards that work on tuna vessels in the Indian Ocean, urging the Interior Ministry to launch an...
ISSF Solutions To Reduce Shark Mortality On FADs
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has presented a number of solutions to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) to reduce the bycatch of silky...
5,000 Ton Coldstorage Opens In Spain
Frigalsa opened a freezer storage in Beiramar, Vigo, this week, allowing the implementation of the agreement between the Spanish coldstorage logistics company and tuna processor Atunlo. Atunlo...
Disappointing Catches Of US And Canada Albacore
The US and Canadian west coast albacore season is coming to a close and it has been a disappointing catch period as hauls have been about half of the last 20 years average. The reason for the...
Two More Retailers Sue “Big 3” Over Price Fixing
Two more plaintiffs have joined the US antitrust case, filing a complaint in California that accuses the Big 3 tuna brands of conspiring to fix the prices of canned tuna during the period...
Seiner’s Helicopter Crash: Two Deaths
Two men died when a helicopter used for tuna fishing in the port of Mazatlán crashed near the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. Javier Blanco, 26 and Jamie Soto, 28, tragically lost their lives...
Negotiations Between EU States Over Albacore Quota Transfer
Spain is currently in talks with other EU member states to exchange quotas of albacore. The Secretary General of Fisheries, Andrés Hermida, says that the country is in talks with Portugal, UK,...
New Traceability System Creates Confusion Instead Of Answers
With Clover Leaf’s announcement that it had launched a track and trace website, it seemed the company had opened the door to transparency and simplicity, but a test carried out has revealed...
Balfego To Offer Traceability By Individual Tuna
One of Spain’s top fresh tuna exporters, Grupo Balfegó, will be introducing a new traceability system for bluefin tuna based on the use of QR codes. The new scheme offers wholesalers,...
WWF Wants Bluefin Size Threshold At 85kgs
WWF has told the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) to adopt stringent measures or suspend the entire commercial fishing of Pacific Bluefin tuna. The NGO is urging fishing nations...
Clover Leaf: Consumers Want To Know Where Their Tuna Comes From
Canadian brand, Clover Leaf, has today launched a website that allows its customers to trace the supply chain for their cans of tuna, in a move to distance itself from environmental and...
Taiwan Introduces Stricter Standards For Tuna Fleet
Taiwan is seeking to improve conditions in its fishing fleet with commercial fishing boat owners in the country facing strict rules and potential fines under a new law. One of the world’s...
Revamped Maldives Cannery To Revive Exports
After being closed for a year for renovations, a state-run cannery will reopen in the Maldives, and will initially look to serve its domestic market before expanding into exports. Felivaru...
Fishermen Find Human Genitals In Tuna
A bizarre discovery was made by fishermen in Tampa, Florida, when they found human genitals inside the stomach of a yellowfin tuna. Upon filleting the 36kg fish, Jerry Masterson got an...
Thai Union Completes US Buy-out
Thai Union Group has completed the buyout of Tri-Union Frozen Products (TUFP), which operates as Chicken of the Sea, shelling out around THB 1.6 billion (USD 46.2 million) for 18 percent, to...
