Concerns with working conditions on board fishing vessels have been steadily growing. Reports of human rights violations and inhumane working conditions within the seafood industry have...
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TU Creates Food Innovation Venture Fund
As part of its continuous investment in innovation, Thai Union Group PCL has started its own venture fund and is committing USD 30 million of its venture capital to companies...
ISSF PVR Powerless In Stopping Seiner Over-Capacity
On January 2009, Dr. James Joseph, at the time the world’s most respected tuna scientist, sounded the alarm bells about overcapacity in the purse seiner fleet targeting tropical tunas. Dr....
Seiners Baby Bigeye Catches Record High
Purse seiners caught the highest number of baby bigeye on dFADs in the WCPO region in 2018 since the recent peak of 2014. According to data released by the Scientific Committee...
US Navy Catches Skipjacks Off USS Nimitz
One of the largest warships in the world, the USS Nimitz of the US Navy, served as a trolling fishing vessel for some enthusiasts on board determined to prove they could catch tuna from...
EU Nations Failing To Enforce Discard Landing Obligation
EU fisheries are adamant to impose sustainable rules that will guarantee the health of ecosystems and fish stocks. However, three member states are not enforcing their own...
“Mattanza” Caught Italian Bluefin Fetches High Price In Japan
San Pietro Island in Italy, seven kilometers off the southwestern coast of Sardinia, is a major exporter of premium bluefin. The fish is caught using a millennia-old traditional method...
Atuna Poll: Is There A Growing Demand For Tuna?
Lately, there has been news stating that there is a “booming demand” for tuna and that global tuna catches have increased by more than 1000 percent over the past 60 years. For example, The...
No Major Price Decline In Seychelles’ Market
Seychelles’ market for frozen whole round skipjack and yellowfin is more in balance as the supply and the demand are better attuned to each other. This is reflected by a relatively...
Financing Modernization Of Ecuadorian Fleet A Problem
The Ecuadorian tuna fleet is interested in modernization but investment is an issue, according to Bruno Leone, President of the National Chamber of Fisheries of Ecuador. In an interview...
Activities At Mexican Port Manzanillo Back To Normal
Ten days after a fire broke on board Mexican tuna company GrupoMar’s purse seiner ‘Maria Veronica’, activities at Port Manzanillo are up and running as usual.The fishing vessel was docked...
Difference Between Single And Double Cleaned Loins?
A pre-cooked tuna can be single or double cleaned. What is the difference and how is it done? To explain the difference, we'll give a brief insight into the tuna loining process. First,...
Korean Seiners Still Best Performing In WCPO
Purse seiners from fishing nation South Korea continue to perform better than those from all other countries when it comes to skipjack and yellowfin catches per day, especially in the...
ELAPS Tuna Closure Will Hurt Am. Samoa Economy
The governor for American Samoa is unhappy with the NMFS’s decision to close the Effort Limit Area for Purse Seine (ELAPS) area as he said that it would hurt the territory's economy. ...
Where Do The Big Three Source Their Tuna From?
In 2018, the US Big Three represented 77 percent of the American canned and pouched tuna market. They needed over 345,500 M/T of tuna to meet the demand for...
Restoration Of Maltese Tuna Fishing Museum
More than 300-year old Tunnara Museum in Mellieha, Malta, will be undergoing restoration. It is also known as the Westreme Battery. Most of the work will focus on the...
Sir Attenborough: Fishing Subsidies – The Great Evil
In order to mitigate depleting fish stocks, food shortages, and losses to fishing livelihoods, it is imperative that governments agree on a global trade deal to ban harmful subsidies to...
Half A Million M/T Of Raw Mat To Meet US Consumption
Nearly half a million tons of raw material was needed to cater to the US retail tuna industry in 2018, the bulk of it ending up in the canned segment, followed by pouches and ready-to-eat...
Booming Tuna Demand More Talk Than Fact
‘Booming demand could drive tuna to extinction, researchers find’ was the title of an article published by leading UK newspaper, The Guardian, on October 3. It stated that according...
Seiners Leave Port After EPO Veda Ends
Yesterday, the first 72-day veda in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) ended. Purse seiners with a carrying capacity of over 182 M/T are now allowed to leave the Eastern...