A federal judge is refusing to dismiss a class action that accuses Bumble Bee Foods of displaying misrepresentative omega-3 information on its tuna products. Instead, the judge has decided to...
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Aussie Catches ‘Tunicorn’
An Australian angler was amazed when he caught a ‘tunicorn’ this week near Osprey reef, Queensland; a tuna and a unicorn in one catch. The 64 year old fisherman, Kim Haskell, caught the...
NFI: “Greenpeace Video Gets The Facts On FADs Wrong”
In response to a previous video released by Greenpeace, targeting the bycatch issues of tuna purse seiners, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has also released...
Lifting Of Yellow Card Not All Good News For Fiji Operators
What was considered to be “good news” for many in Fiji could in fact mean little change for some, as the EU announced a lift on trade sanctions for the nation’s fisheries exports, updating its...
New Treaty Could Drive US Samoa Fleet Out Of Business
The American Samoa based tuna fleet could be driven completely out of business with the recent news that Kiribati has drastically dropped the amount of days it will give to the US Tuna Treaty....
MSC Tuna: Is It Growing Fast Enough?
Shooting up nearly 300 percent in volume, in just one year, sales of MSC ecolabelled tuna have almost quadrupled; a more than significant escalation. But while these sustainably certified tuna...
Illegal Bluefin To Be Donated To Food Banks
After years of demanding that food unfit for the market be given to food banks, the Cadiz and Algeciras food banks have finally signed an agreement with other Spanish parties, enabling seized...
Costa Rica Establishes No-Purse Seiner Zone
The Costa Rican President, Luis Guillermo Solis, has signed an Executive Decree establishing territorial limits on tuna fishing along the coast, reports The Costa Rica Star, explaining...
Abidjan Wants To Expand As Leading Tuna Hub
As the historical capital of Cote d’Ivoire, Abidjan, the largest industrialized hub in West Africa, also has the largest port in the region and the second biggest in Africa. Now the port,...
PNG Exchanges Tuna Experiences With African Nations
Papua New Guinea appears to be taking steps towards exchanging experiences on the management of local tuna resources and cooperation with local processing industries, after attending the 2014...
Frinsa First Spanish Canner To Join SFP
Grupo Frinsa, definitely one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of canned tuna, has recently joined the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), becoming, according to the Galician company,...
Spanish Tuna Industry Courting PNA Nations
With what appears a significant change in attitude, the Spanish tuna industry seems keen to build stronger ties with PNA nations. This was made clear with the Spanish government’s recent...
Are FAD Bans Helping To Reduce Bigeye Mortality?
In what appears to be a yearly recurring trend, the end of the recent three month WCPO FAD ban has again seen another surge in FAD associated catches and landings, the recent sharp decline in...
Nations Meet On Zone Based Management Of Pacific Albacore
The big item on the agenda at the current 17th meeting of the Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) of the FFA is albacore tuna; how nations can work together to effectively tackle the stock-wide...
Ecuador Likely To Keep Zero Duty Until 2017
Ecuadorian tuna exporters can breathe a sigh of relief, as sources from DG Trade Brussels confirm that the nation’s tuna products are likely to keep zero percent duty trade with the EU, until...
FAD Bycatch Video Is Outdated, Have Things Changed?
This week, whistleblower video footage was released from onboard Spanish and French tuna purse seiners, showing a prolific amount of bycatch mortality of sharks, turtles and rays during...
New Tuna Seiner Delivered To Jadran
Zamakona Yards in Basque Country, Spain, has built a new tuna purse seiner for the Jadran Group, based in Ecuador and Panama. The new 2,706 M/T vessel, the ‘Ljubica’, is the 739th vessel built...
Seiners Benefit From 25pct Lower Oil Prices
The continued decline of global oil prices, now reaching a 25 percent decline since June this year, is influencing operations in the tuna industry, as oil costs play a large part in the...
US Origin Labeling A Technical Barrier To Trade?
This week’s ruling by the WTO against US country-of-origin meat labeling (COOL) has been attributed to the fact that its compliance panel sees the policy as a “technical barrier to trade.” The...
Bigeye Problem Most Severe in Central Pacific, Say Scientists
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has conducted recent tagging research revealing that bigeye tuna from the eastern Pacific and bigeye tuna from the western Pacific do a lot more...
