A feed pilot project is being conducted on a cage of around 150 Atlantic bluefin tuna off the coast of Marsaxlokk in Malta. The Singaporean company, Sustainable Kinetics, produces the feed...
Tuna Farming News
Major Global Tuna Highlights April 2022
April continued to be a busy month for the tuna industry with raw material prices across the world’s ports increasing as well as other key commodities. The cost of fuel slightly decreased for...
Oman Invests Millions In Yellowfin Fattening Farm
Oman will be the first to start a yellowfin fattening project to supply the global market with high-quality tuna. Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources (MAFWR)...
Japanese Bluefin Farming In Stage of Revolutionary Transformation
The Japanese bluefin farming sector is going through a transformation. In 2021, eighty-eight companies operated 187 aquaculture bluefin farms, two less than the previous year, yet increased...
Germans Eyeing Massive Innovative Tuna Farming Project
The German project Next Tuna is looking to create the world’s first large-scale tuna farming plant. It will be located in a port in Valencia, Spain. The initiative will involve an investment...
IATTC Achotines Laboratory Marks 25 Years Of Researching Yellowfin Spawning
The IATTC recently announced that it had reached a milestone of 25 years of sustained spawning of yellowfin at its Achotines Laboratory in Panama. This lab was established in 1985 as part of...
Crack Down On Criminal Group For Stealing Bluefin
This week, the Civil Guard of Murcia, Spain, arrested three people for stealing 120 kg of bluefin from farms in the region and three more are under suspicion for the same crime. They all...
Maruha Nichiro Betting On Cell-Based Tuna Production
Japan’s largest tuna and seafood company, Maruha Nichiro, is adamant about working towards close-cycle bluefin farming and less on wild fisheries. In its path to achieving this, the firm has...
Disgraced Tuna Fraud Official Continues To Get Full Pay Years After Suspension
In the EU nation of Malta, a former top fisheries official has been receiving her salary in full for the past two and a half years even after having been suspended. Andreina Fenech Farrugia...
Australia Wants To Measure Tuna Quota By Underwater Video Technology
The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water, and Environment issued a tender to trial the use of a fully automated video system that would help to determine the weight of Southern bluefin...
Fish Feed For Sustainable Farmed Tuna To Hold MSC Certification
A recent move by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) requires that wild fish used in the production of farm-raised fish come from increasingly sustainable sources. The change was...
Japan’s Farmed Tuna Supply Declined In 2020
For the first time in four years, the supply of farmed bluefin in Japan has fallen. According to the financial newspaper, Nikkei Shimbun, the country’s Fisheries Agency announced that the...
Malta’s Fisheries See Improvements Rewarded With Higher Quota
Maltese tuna farms welcomed an increase in the tuna quota after the European Commission (EC) approved a request by the Mediterranean government. Ranchers have been allowed to breed 10.26...
New Genetic Method Research For Tuna Identification
A new project that looks to improve the way in which tuna species are identified has been launched in Spain. It is a genetic method developed by research group AZTI which uses markers in the...
New Aquaculture Player Eyeing Fuentes Group’s Tuna Farms
A new aquaculture player, Avramar, is looking to get its hand on some of Ricardo Fuentes’ bluefin farms. Avramar is the result of the merger of the Greek/Spanish companies Andromeda Group,...
Ricardo Fuentes Reinvents Itself
The Spanish bluefin group, Ricardo Fuentes, has reinvented its corporate image. Consequently, it has established a new brand, Fuentes. It includes the seven companies of...
Tuna Farming Using AI & IoT To Boost Efficiency
Multiple technological advancements have allowed the bluefin farming business to increase efficiency while lowering costs. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT)...
Malta’s Tuna Farming Business In Crisis
Malta’s tuna farming and aquaculture business is on the rocks and suffered a loss last year, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Office (NSO). The country is known for...
Bluefin Breaks Into Salmon Farm While Chasing Dinner
A bluefin chasing its dinner broke into a salmon farm’s cage in Scotland. The tuna, which might have weighed around 300 kg, tore the net causing a small amount of damage. The bluefin was...
Larger Female Yellowfin Are Potentially Better Breeders?
Researchers have found that larger yellowfin females have larger ovaries and also different fatty acid profiles in their bodies which could lead to better quality offspring compared to their...