While Korea is buying up fishing days and caught as much as 275,602 tons of tuna in 2013, it is now looking to succeed in farming tuna domestically, through a cluster of provincial fishery...
Tuna Farming News
Tough Questions Raised On “NOAA IUU List”
A whole lot of issues have been raised on atuna.com in the last few months, and the industry has not been short on questions and opinions. One of the hot topics discussed these last few weeks...
USD 34 Million For Acquisition Of Umami Tuna Farms
An acquisition initiated last November for the purchase of a Croatian bluefin farming company has now been settled at JPY 4 billion (USD 33.5 million). Japanese fisheries service...
Check Out Our New Interactive Content!
You may have noticed some significant changes made by atuna.com in the way we present the top tuna industry news to you; one of these that might have caught your eye is the inclusion of quick...
Industry Responds With Strong Voice
In the last couple of weeks a few of our articles have received an engaging amount of feedback from our readers, who have contributed to our ongoing discussions page and posted their opinions...
Millennia Old Tuna Port Starts Sushi Festival
In a bid to link its local tuna economy to its influence in the Japanese market, one very old European tuna port held its first ever tuna & sushi festival this weekend, which turned out to...
Europe’s First Tuna Breeding Center To Open In June
Mazarrón, Spain, is soon to be home to the first ‘tuna breeding center’ in Europe; it will have four huge tanks containing a total of seven million liters of water and up to 40 adult bluefin...
Costa Rica And Ecuador Get Cosy On Fisheries
Delegates of two tuna fishing nations, Ecuador and Costa Rica, have met this week to discuss an agenda that would see the Latin American nations cooperating on fisheries and aquaculture...
Leading Spanish Bluefin Player Buys Up Quotas
One of Spain’s top fresh tuna producers, the Balfegó Group has acquired quota allocations of bluefin tuna from other regions’ fishermen, as some companies have again this year decided to limit...
Ricardo Fuentes First Atlantic Hatched Bluefin On Sale In The Netherlands
The first ever Atlantic bluefin tuna, born, grown, and harvested from captivity, have been officially sold on the market by Spanish bluefin producer Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos last week. While...
Save The Date: April 20th – European Tuna Conference
Want to be part of a top tuna industry event that more than 300 industry representatives from over 44 different countries gathered for in 2013? Atuna.com is organizing the 5th edition of the...
Full Cycle Farming Of Yellowfin Tuna Close To Realization
The Kinki University in Japan and the Government of Panama have managed to co-develop the process of hatching yellowfin tuna eggs; a step closer to achieving the full life-cycle farming of...
Despite Income Slips, Kyokuyo’s Stock Hits One Year High
Investors are still showing significant confidence in major Japanese seafood distributor, Kyokuyo, despite the company posting substantial declines in income for the first half of 2014. The...
95% Of S-Australian Sardines To Fatten Bluefin
The Australian bluefin tuna industry’s most important raw material, sardine, is set to increase quota, as a 10 year management plan has been revised. Currently, 95 percent of what is caught...
Atuna & BESTTuna Partner In New Research Section
We’re launching a new, highly informative, highly detailed research section to the atuna.com website, accessible to all. The Research Reports hub, fully powered by BESTTuna, will provide a...
Umami Set To Sell Bluefin Farms To Japanese Firm
A publicly-traded bluefin farming company based in the US, Umami Sustainable Seafood, will be selling its Croatia based tuna farming asset, Kali Tuna, to a Japanese fisheries service company,...
Can The Biotech Mackerel Spawn Bluefin Tuna Eggs?
A Japanese marine scientist has been working on a remarkable method that he thinks will ensure that lucrative bluefin tuna stocks survive. Goro Yamazaki, known more commonly as ‘Young Mr....
Despite Profit Rise, Sanford Could Sell Off Seiners
It seems the skipjack price drop hasn’t been completely destructive to the financial performance of one major fishing company. New Zealand’s largest listed fishing group has announced a 10...
Tuna Magnate Meets Chinese President
Long recognized for his expertise and innovation in tuna fishing, Australian tuna magnate, Hagen Stehr, met with the President of China Tuesday to discuss the finalization of the Free Trade...
Tracking The Life Of The Tuna On Your Plate
Sushi restaurants in Osaka and Tokyo are now providing, alongside served food, tablet devices so that consumers can educate themselves on the individual properties of the farmed bluefin tuna...