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There are many things people remember about 1977; it was a big year for Hollywood blockbuster movies, with Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all opening at...

Developed countries have reached their peak in terms of canned tuna consumption; that’s according to one economist, who believes that several markets which have been overlooked up until now,...

Built in the 60s, the fishing port of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, has gone through a major restructuring that has represented a Government investment of CFA Franc 29 billon (USD 51 million). The...

Huge duties levied on the import of tuna products into the Turkish market have meant the national government has encased the country with a powerful firewall, protecting the market from...

Global obesity has reached “crisis point” according to a major study recently published, with some of the highest rates of overweight people existing in a number of the world’s largest tuna...

Once a major exporter of catering sized canned skipjack tuna to US food service buyers, canners in Thailand have been complaining of a severe lack of business. Rocketing American imports of...

  Co-founder of Anova Seafood, a top European supplier for both fresh and frozen tuna products, Willem Huisman has been CEO of the firm for little over a year, but having been one of the...

Transform Aqorau - outgoing PNA CEO “At the moment there are uncertainties about the future of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, under which US flagged purse seine vessels have fished in the...

Despite tuna not being a big part of Salvador Ramon Mateo’s childhood, his passion for the fish has grown into a love that’s got him staying awake at night, and unable to count the extensive...

There are a small number of tuna seiners operating across the world’s oceans that boast tonnages far surpassing the majority. Out of more than 750 purse seiners fishing for tuna globally,...

Constituting 90 percent of world trade, shipping is the lifeline of international imports and exports. China overtook the US last year as the world’s largest exporter, with goods worth USD...

It might come as a surprise to some, but the presence of tuna professionals as well as tuna fanatics has been noticeable all over the internet for some time now. And it’s not only big tuna...

  With many global fish stocks worldwide in decline, aquaculture has been offered as a possible sustainable alternative to fishing. While there have been many successes in aquaculture...

The past year and more could be described as somewhat disastrous for the US tuna market, with a long list of significant challenges that struck the sector. Was this the toughest year for...

Eating tuna sashimi fresh from Tsukiji fish market in a Japanese restaurant is a world away from a tuna mayonnaise sandwich eaten for lunch in the US. But these differences are not necessarily...