Turkish bluefin farmers had to deal with several factors such as inflation and the weakening of the yen in 2023. Group Sagun, one of Turkey’s first farming companies, started its operations in...
Tuna Farming News
Finding New Location For Bluefin Farms Fails
The Maltese government halted its attempts to find new locations for two bluefin farms so that it can expand the fish production. The pen's owners, AJD Tuna Ltd and Malta Aquaculture Ltd, are...
Indonesia Wooing Foreign Investors For Bluefin Farming
The Indonesian fisheries minister recently invited Turkish investors for funds to develop bluefin farms in the Papua region. Sakti Wahyu Trenggono hopes that Turkish financial aid and...
Growing Mexican Bluefin Farm Reels In New Investors
Mexican bluefin fattening Baja Aqua Farms will expand its activities with capital from four investors, three of them global equity firms. Continental Grain Company (CGC), Equity Group...
Ricardo Fuentes Boasts Millions In Turnover In 2022
The world’s largest bluefin fattening farm owner, Spanish Ricardo Fuentes Group made up of 32 firms, recently announced that its turnover for 2022 exceeded EUR 370 million (USD 403 million)....
Indonesian Ports Do Not Comply With PSMA Despite Ratification
Indonesia continues to fail in implementing the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) in all its fishing ports despite ratifying it in 2016. Currently, there are only four PSMA-compliant...
Croatia Fails In Effective Control Of Bluefin Farms
The European Commission (EC) is working to ensure that bluefin aquaculture farms abide by the EU rules. Last week, the commission announced that it has decided to send a “reasoned opinion” to...
Aquaculture Expert Underlines Land-Bred Tuna Farms Pose No Environmental Threats
The recent success of land-bred tuna farms by a Spanish organization has sparked the interest of bluefin aquaculture companies. German-based Next Tuna is among the first to join in. CEO Andrew...
Grupo Ricardo Fuentes Takes New Ultra-Low Freezing Carrier Into Use
The Spanish bluefin farming company Grupo Ricardo Fuentes purchased an ultra-low-temperature vessel, 'Princesa Guayarmina.' The carrier adds 1,300 tons of processing and storage...
Turkey High Hopes For 2023 As Bluefin H1 Exports Hit 40 Mln
Turkey boosted its tuna exports from USD 23 million to a whopping USD 40 million, year on year, in the first half of 2023. The country has bluefin farms for which the baby tuna are...
Spanish Center Claims First-Of-Its-Kind Land-Based Bluefin Production
The Murcia Oceanographic Center of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO, CSIC) has claimed a breakthrough in bluefin farming practice. The researchers have managed to produce the tuna...
Half-Closed Cycle Tuna Project Stalled
German firm Next Tuna’s efforts to begin a half-closed cycle sustainable Atlantic bluefin hatchery at the Southern dock of the Spanish port in Castellón La Plana have been delayed. The...
Indonesia Irked By Low Tuna Quota, Makes Plan For Farms
The catch volume allotted for Southern bluefin has irked Indonesia, a member of the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCBST). It has demanded an increased quota. The country also hinted...
Balfegó Criticizes Bluefin Quotas And Expands Operations To Italy
Spanish company Grupo Balfegó, specializing in bluefin aquaculture, is expanding its operations to Italy. It has launched new pools in collaboration with a local firm, off the coast of Marina...
Maltese Tuna Farm Diver Compensated After Accident
The world turned upside down for Frederick Catania when he became partially disabled while working at a tuna farm in Malta. The incident, which happened almost a decade ago, left Catania with...
Australia’s First Female Tuna Boss
Dinko Seafoods is one of the top Australian tuna companies founded by Dinko Lukin in 1966 at Port Lincoln. Once millions in debt, the company has now grown to become one of the highest-value...
Spanish Technology To Make Bluefin Transfer Into Hatcheries Economical
Two Spanish seafood pioneers have developed a new and advanced system that facilitates identifying accurate sea conditions and thus helps transfer the specimens to a hatchery. Spanish...
Tuna Farmer Diversifies Into Seaweed Business
Australia’s south coast is home to over 1,500 seaweed species – the second highest after Japan. Dinko, a tuna farming company in Port Lincoln, is stepping up to harvest them to make organic...
Maltese Tuna Farms Await Public Hearing To Begin Operations
A public hearing on January 19 will determine the opening of two tuna farms likely to house 6,000 tons of tuna. The pens are located in an aquaculture zone a few kilometers away from Qala, a...
Ghost Tuna Plant: Where Did The Millions Go?
Four walls are the only things showing for the efforts of a tuna project started seven years ago in Annobón, an island of Equatorial Guinea. Millions of euros have been invested in the plant...