Supermarkets and Sushi restaurants in Japan are paying less for farm-raised bluefin tuna, as domestic and foreign supplies of the delicacy surge. Japanese cultivated bluefin is selling for...
Tuna Farming News
First 100% Farm Raised Atlantic Bluefin To Become Reality
A hatchery to be built this year will be the first ever geared towards the farming of Atlantic bluefin tuna on land. To be constructed in Murcia, Spain, the USD 6.8 million project will aim to...
Mitsubishi Enters The Chinese Tuna Market Via J/V
Mitsubishi Corporation is to enter the Chinese tuna market with the announcement of a joint venture with Zhejiang Ocean Family Co. Ltd (ZOF), to establish a new company in Hangzhou, China. The...
“Torofest” To Feature Sustainable “Kindai” Bluefin
Torofest 2013 is taking place in Fukuda restaurant in Pittsburgh this week. The city’s first annual Torofest will celebrate “the filet mignon of fish,” owner, Hoon Kim said. The restaurant...
Toyota Tsusho To Ramp Up “Kindai” Farming
Toyota Tsusho plans to more than double its output of farmed bluefin tuna by boosting the survival rate of hatchlings, a move expected to increase supply of the prized delicacy at a time when...
Bumble Bee Seafoods Buys Anova USA
According to the website seafax.com, Bumble Bee Foods, owner of one of the United States big three tuna brands, has acquired US based Anova Foods. With leading US brand, Bumble Bee tuna under...
“Kindai” Bluefin Restaurant Opens In Tokyo
The world’s second largest restaurant specializing in 100 percent farmed bluefin tuna (different from wild caught bluefin which is only fattened in farms) opened earlier this week in Tokyo. At...
Port Lincoln Expects Decreased Bluefin Harvest On Last Season
The harvest of bluefin tuna at Port Lincoln, Australia, is expected to be lower than last season due to a scaling back of ranching companies. Fishing for bluefin will commence this month after...
Malta Doubles Bluefin Farming, Generates €58 Million Growth In 2012
Malta has doubled the amount of bluefin tuna it is breeding in captivity, increasing the island nation’s turnover in the aquaculture industry by as much as €58.2 million from 2011 to 2012. The...
Australia Slammed By Japan For Shelving Bluefin Count Plan
The Australian government has been rebuked by Japan and New Zealand for ditching Australia's commitment to closely monitor its catch of the endangered southern bluefin tuna. Australia had...
Japan’s Appetite For Australian Bluefin Is Lessening
Several factors have led to a decline in tuna consumption in Japan, the main market for Port Lincoln’s southern bluefin tuna exports. Keynote speakers at the Seafood Directions conference held...
41 Months Prison For Former CFO Umami Seafood
The former chief financial officer of Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc, a publicly-traded tuna farming company based in San Diego was sentenced Monday to 41 months in federal prison for...
University To Open Restaurant Serving Own “Kindai” Farmed Bluefin
Japans Kinki University on Oct. 29 announced that it will open a restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district in December, serving up fish farmed by the university's Fisheries Laboratory. It is the...
Tuna Poachers Strike Again
The Australian tuna farming industry has been struck with the problem of tuna poachers once again this season. Last year, damage caused by tuna poachers to the fishery was said by the...
Cheers And Protests Over Increased Southern Bluefin Quota
Increased quotas for Southern bluefin announced last week were received with cheers by the fishing industry but have riled major conservation groups. The Commission for the Conservation of...
Is Seismic Research Driving Tuna Away?
A proposed seismic survey in the Great Australian Bight is raising concerns throughout the local tuna industry over the impact the research could have on the fishery’s season. TGS-NOPEC, which...