Illegal FAD fishing has been blamed for the majority of the huge value loss in the Pacific Ocean, where it has now been estimated that USD 616 million worth of tuna is caught each year by IUU...
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Need To Boost Local Know-How On Tuna Fishing
The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) is stressing the need for a tuna faculty at the Regional Maritime University (RMU), to equip the Ghanaian workforce with the necessary skills required for tuna...
Skipjack Price Jumps Again On Slow Supply
Poor catching in WCPO fishing grounds is ultimately causing low whole round skipjack supply in the Bangkok market place, as price takes another leap. Now at USD 1,500 per ton (frozen whole...
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The Atuna team is trial running Atuna Business Brief, an exclusive video of the most recent news to hit the global tuna industry. Please let us know what you think, and if you’d like this to...
Tuna Debt Triggers Currency Weakening
Mozambique’s metical currency has weakened six percent against the dollar this week after the country’s rating from Standard and Poor was downgraded following concerns that despite planned...
The Crucial Question For PNA: Effort Or Quota?
The PNA is gearing up for a 10-day gathering in Kiribati, in which one of the central points of discussion will be if the VDS in the region should be replaced with a quota system. The core...
Bumble Bee Victim Of Chicken Of The Sea Mess-Up
Thai Union owned Chicken of the Sea has swooped in under the shadow of Bumble Bee to now recall over 100,000 cans of tuna from shelves and consumers across the United States, on fears of...
Eastern EU Markets Continue Showing Growth
During a year in which overall European imports of canned tuna dropped by five percent, Eastern European nations bucked the trend, and as a region was the only area in the EU to see continued...
Century Getting A Slice Of Other Asian Markets
An outright leader in its domestic tuna market, Century Pacific Group is working on forward integration, with the aim of breaking into other Asian markets. While its main focus has always been...
Cook’s Cabinet Approves Controversial Spanish Seiner Deal
The Cook Islands cabinet has declared its support to the Prime Minister, Henry Puna, to go ahead with proceedings for a new fisheries agreement with the EU, in the face of ongoing national...
How Carrier Cost Impacts Skipjack Prices
A recent rapid surge in global skipjack prices is helping boatowners to more easily absorb relatively stable reefer carrier costs from WCPO fishing grounds to major Asian ports. While at the...
Massive Bumble Bee Recall Over Contamination Fears
Bumble Bee has announced a large-scale national recall of more than a million cans of its Chunk Light tuna today, after suspicions arose that deviations in the processing stage of production...
SSTC Upgrades Its PNG Plant
South Seas Tuna Corporation (SSTC) has upgraded its Wewak PNG tuna loin processing facility at a sum of PGK 9 million (USD 2.94 million), to improve facility capacity and operations as a...
US Seiners Still Fishing In EPO
While recent reports suggest that rapidly climbing global skipjack prices have encouraged the US tuna fleet to get back to WCPO fishing operations as quickly as possible, it actually seems...
Sweden’s Top Tuna Brand Not Concerned By Shrinking Imports
Shrinking canned tuna deliveries to Nordic countries is not worrying one market leader in the region, as top Swedish tuna brand Abba says it’s focusing on growing its MSC range in response to...
Insider Info: What’s That Code Underneath The MSC Logo?
A new survey by MSC has shown that more than two thirds of consumers want to know their fish can be traced back to a trusted source, and as a result MSC says many look to ecolables to provide...
Has Pole And Line Totally Passed Its Peak?
Over the last three years there has been a notable ten percent drop in the volume of global pole and line tuna catch; the main message coming from the IPNLF’s recent “status and trends”...
How Much Illegal Tuna Is Worth $616m?
The huge figure revealed yesterday placing a price on the amount of lost revenue illegal fishing generates in the Pacific each year has raised eyebrows amongst those in the tuna industry, but...
Rio Mare’s “Concrete Commitment” To The Environment
Over the last five years Rio Mare, Italy’s leading tuna brand, has committed itself to lessoning its environmental impact, at least in the sense of energy consumption, lowering water use in...
How Bumble Bee Is Tapping Into Young Americans
Making up around a quarter of the US population, young Americans, also known as the millennial generation is an increasingly important consumer segment for tuna brands to tap into. This is...
