Thousands of illegal bluefin have been released back into the ocean in Malta after the tunas had been drifting at sea in two cages for a year. A legal battle started between the owners and the...
Tuna Farming News
Balfegó: Fishermen Who Netted Dead Tunas Will Get Paid
Last January during a heavy storm that hit Catalonia, Spain, hundreds of farmed bluefin from tuna company Balfegó escaped or were thrown out of their cages, located three miles off the coast...
Malta’s Tuna Sector Self-Regulate To Clean Slime Off The Sea
Maltese bluefin farmers have joined forces to clean up the sea through a self-regulatory agreement. The Federation of Maltese Aquaculture Producers (FMAP) informed that this is the third...
Tuna From Stem Cells In Five Years?
Scientists from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology succeeded in developing a technique to spawn fish via Germline Stem Cells (GSC) in vitro. Although the research used trout...
EU Approves COVID-19 Aid For Maltese Fishermen
The EU has authorized financial aid for Maltese self-employed tuna fishermen affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This help is part of the Temporary Framework set up by the European Commission...
Bureaucracy Keeps 3,500 Tunas Locked In Maltese Farms
Two months ago, the EU gave Malta four months to set its affairs in order and comply with all finishing controls, IUU, and bluefin regulations. However, it looks as if things are moving slower...
Growing Tuna In Space To Become Reality?
A US firm has said that it is possible to grow tuna in space using fish culture cells and it has already started making the effort with serious experiments on the International Space Station....
Major Global Tuna Highlights June 2020
June was a lively month for the tuna industry. The global pandemic continued to impact fishing crews and fleets, especially in the Indian Ocean. In the US, Lischewski's sentencing was...
Be The Change, Protect Our Oceans
Today is World Oceans Day, an annual event to honor the role oceans play in our daily lives and how marine environments need to be protected to safeguard the planet for all its inhabitants....
Malta Authorities File Lawsuit Against Tuna Ranchers
Maltese tuna ranchers are in hot waters again as the Fisheries Department has filed criminal proceedings against them. This was carried out slightly before the European Commission sent a...
Fresh Bluefin Trade Suffering Heavily From Coronavirus Slump
Fresh tuna trade across the globe is suffering due to the coronavirus crisis, and the trade of the most valuable species is no exception. Demand for bluefin has come to a near standstill given...
Almadrabas In Deep Water Due To Global Pandemic
With the ongoing pandemic and stricter quarantine measures being imposed, restaurants, hotels, and other food businesses have temporarily closed their doors. Consequently, the demand for fresh...
Industry Calls For Tighter Tuna Regulations In Malta
In a press conference last Friday, the Federation of Maltese Aquaculture Producers (FMAP) called for stricter regulations against illegal tuna fishing. The group also stated that Malta has not...
Court To Maltese Farmers: Release The Tuna
Two Maltese tuna farms have been ordered to release some illegally held bluefin back into the ocean after they exceeded the 2019 quota of just under 2,300 M/T. This happened after the ranchers...
Norwegian Farmers To Produce Bluefin In Cape Verde
A Norwegian company, Nortuna, focusing on the full cycle farming of Atlantic bluefin signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Maritime Economy of Cape Verde to farm up...
Balfegó Compensates Fishers Who Find Its Dead Bluefin
After a recent devastating storm that hit Spain’s eastern coast and killed hundreds of escaped farmed bluefin belonging to Balfegó, the tuna company is now offering money to fishermen who...
Encounter New Innovative Technologies At The Americas Tuna Conference
The latest on fishing data and packaging technology will be displayed at the the third edition of Atuna’s Americas Tuna Conference, taking place in Panama in just two weeks. Maxar Marine...
Trade Dynamics Between America’s And Europe’s Tuna Industries
As the European continent is the largest canned tuna consumer area, its trading standards and practices are of high importance to the industry. On the first day of the AMAtuna2020 Adolfo...
Maruha Nichiro Buys Toyo Reizo’s Bluefin Farms
One of the world’s largest seafood companies, Maruha Nichiro Group, announced a deal this week to purchase the bluefin farming operations of Toyo Reizo Co, the latter owned by Mitsubishi...
Tuna Stocks: Threats And Improvement Measures
What is the current state of the global tuna stocks, what threats do they face, and what are the best measures to improve them? Guillermo Compeán, Director of the Inter-American...