The practice of injecting or treating defrosted tuna with vegetable extracts, antioxidants or nitrites is an issue that has been called “clear food fraud” by the European...
Tuna Farming News
Future Is Rocky For Australian SBT Industry
The Southern bluefin tuna industry is entering a second year of reduced quota, with some players expressing concerns for the future. The bluefin business in Port Lincoln is based on...
New Tuna Farm Linked To Bluefin Catamaran Smuggling
The network of companies implicated in the bluefin smuggling mafia continues to expand as another tuna farm is implicated through leaked reports intercepted by the Civil Guard...
Whistleblower Exposes Failing Enforcement On Catch Documentation
As the crackdown on the billion dollar illegal bluefin trade continues, another whistleblower working in a tuna farm revealed the step-by-step process in illegal harvesting of tuna...
Ante Gotovina Partners With Metro For Adriatic Tuna Sales
A tuna company owned by Croatian General Ante Gotovina has signed an agreement with Metro, a food distributing and wholesale company to the food service and catering sector. ...
New Study Reports Cannibalism In Bluefin Larvae
Cannibalism has been found to be a feeding strategy in bluefin tuna according to a study in the Western Mediterranean. A team of researchers working in the Balearic Sea carried out a...
Registration Now Open
The date has been set and registration is now open for the highly anticipated 2019 European Tuna Conference. Organized by Atuna and held in Brussels, the event is set to be an insightful...
Spanish “Closed Cycle” Bluefin To Reach Maturity
The summer of 2020 could be the season that a stock of closed cycle-bred tuna reach sexual maturity, claim researchers at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO). Introduced to the...
Scam Shows EU Needs Stricter Controls, Not Less
Against high expectations, concerns arise as the European Union persists in its efforts to persuade ICCAT to loosen restrictions on the bluefin fishery, amidst recent evidence exposing the...
Two Magisterial Inquiries To Investigate Maltese/Spanish Scam
Since the unfolding of an EU-wide illegal bluefin racket estimated at more than EUR 20 million (USD 22.7 million) per year, two separate magisterial inquiries in Malta have been launched as...
Malta “Lynch Pin” In EUR 20 Million Tuna Racket
According to a local report by the Times of Malta, an “international fishing giant with a foothold in Malta” is at the center of an illegal tuna trading scheme worth EUR 20 million a year. The...
Japan Aiming To Export ASC-Certified Captive-Bred Bluefin
Japanese companies are gearing up for the addition of one new menu item to their list of global exports: captive-bred bluefin tuna. Among the leading contenders in the new market...
Typhoon: 350 Closed-Cycle Bluefin Escape Captivity
A reported JPY 100 million (USD 909,000) was incurred in damages after the onset of Typhoon Jebi evoked a powerful surge that precipitated a loss of 600 closed-cycle bred bluefin tuna at the...
Port Lincoln Opposes Oil Exploration In Bid To Save Farms
The Port Lincoln City council has become the 13th local council to oppose oil drilling in Australia’s southern coast. The issue has divided the community as the regions bluefin farmers have...
Sri Lanka To Start Producing Own Tuna Bait
The Minister of Fisheries in Sri Lanka has announced that plans are underway to start the production of fishing bait for its tuna longline vessels. The domestic production of small fish is...
Tuna Farmers To Tackle Slime Problem
Four Maltese tuna farmers have declared that they will take a number of measures to reduce the waterborne leakage of waste from their bluefin farms. The operators have said they will place...
New Project: 20 Million YF Fingerling To Be Released In IO
A new project, launched by Sri Lankan tuna processing leader, Tropic Fisheries, aims to release 20 million yellowfin fingerling into the Indian Ocean, that have been fertilized on land or...
Philippines To Start Fattening Wild Juvenile Yellowfin
The Philippines is the latest to try its hand at tuna farming, recent plans by The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) suggest. The initiative will be based on similar...
30,000 Tons Of Farmed Bluefin To Hit Korean Market
As much as 30,000 M/T of farmed bluefin tuna is expected to be sold by South Korean farming company, Hongjin Fishing Association, later this year. The company says it has finally succeeded in...
Norwegian Bluefin Farmers Restart After Failed Project
Investors involved in the Norwegian company Fortuna Mare are again venturing into the full cycle farming of Atlantic bluefin tuna, after they saw their Spanish-based project fail two years...