UK-based Princes Group, with a core canned tuna ambient segment, saw an increase in its revenue by about 21.5 percent in 2022/2023 period due to higher product prices. However, its profit hit...
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Missing Mexican Tuna Fisher Dies After Being Rescued
The fisherman who was missing after the mini seiner 'California' sank earlier this week in Mexico has passed away. Francisco Caudillo, who was 66 years old, managed to stay alive inside the...
FiTi Pilots Initiative With Tuna Nations For Public Voice In Fisheries
International group, the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTi), is developing a new initiative to include the public in fisheries management debates. The organization recently partnered...
StarKist Arranges Extra Trip To Pick Up Straggler Workers
StarKist Samoa cannery has chartered a vessel to retrieve its workers from Samoa. Some did not return to their jobs after the holidays and others are newly hired employees. The management...
AGAC Aims For Bigeye MSC Scope Extension In EPO
The AGAC Four Oceans Integral Purse Seine Tropical Tuna Fishery wants a scope extension for bigeye on FAD sets and free school in the EPO. When the fishery was originally assessed in 2021, it...
Atunlo Asks For Extension On Pre-Bankruptcy Process
Struggling Spanish tuna loins company, Atunlo, has asked judicial authorities to extend the pre-bankruptcy process which began on October 31. This week, the firm came to an agreement to...
Analysts Say Thai Union’s Exit From Struggling Red Lobster Comes At Right Time
Earlier this week, the Thai Union Group announced that it will be exiting from Red Lobster, its US subsidiary, because of “prolonged negative financial contributions” from the restaurant...
MIFCO Is Now A 100 Percent State-Owned Cannery
Maldivian tuna processor MIFCO is now a 100 percent state-owned enterprise after a deal was signed last month. The company is one of the largest exporters of tuna in the archipelago. It...
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)....
Dongwon Tuna Continues To Be Top Lunar New Year Gift
Dongwon F&B announced that it will introduce over 100 types of 'Lunar New Year Gifts’ marketed as healthy and environment-friendly for the upcoming East-Asian holiday season beginning on...
Workers Unions At Odds Over Atunlo’s Layoff Plan
The negotiations for the employment regulation file (ERE) for Atunlo O Grove plant workers came to an end on Tuesday. However, the two unions representing the workers, CC.OO and CIG, are at...
Will Thai Union Cutting Off Red Lobster Impact Its Business?
After years of investing in US restaurant chain Red Lobster, the Thai Union Group announced yesterday that it will be pulling back from this subsidiary. It cited that its exit was due to...
Thai Union Exits Beleaguered Red Lobster To Stop Financial Bleed
Finally, the Thai Union Group has decided to call it quits with Red Lobster, after years of bleeding money from the US seafood restaurant chain. In a statement on Tuesday, the tuna company...
New “Air Condition Dehydrated” Technique For Tuna Sees First Delivery
Sri Lanka-based processing company Megafish recently exported its first 10,000 kg batch of dried fish and fish chips using a new ‘air condition dehydration system' to Korea and Australia. The...
EU Tuna Vessels Heavily Reduced Carbon Dioxide Emissions In 30 Years
The EU tuna and other fishing vessels have reduced their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 52 percent between 1990 to 2011, falling from 8.9 to 4.3 million tons of carbon dioxide. However,...
Eight Fishers Rescued After Mini Seiner Sank In Mexico
Nine crew members of the mini purse seiner 'California' were rescued while one is still reportedly missing after the vessel capsized near the coast of Las Lajitas in Mexico. The missing...
Low Oxygen In Pacific Can Shift Yellowfin To Shallow Waters
Climate warming is not only increasing sea surface temperatures (SSTs) but also impacting the volume of oxygen in oceans. The northern and equatorial Pacific oceans has seen the largest...
Seiner Fleets See Future In Testing Jelly-FADs For Efficacy
Thousands of drifting FADs (dFADs) are placed into oceans by tuna vessels each year and science has proven that these devices are impacting habitats and can end up being ghost gear. However,...
Calippo Will Not “Give In An Inch” After Mafiosi Shoot At Its Tuna Warehouse
Unknowns fired gunshots at the warehouse of Italian tuna processing company Callipo in the night of January 13. The owner, Pippo Calippo, said that he “will not give in an inch” as the police...
FCF Launches Bumble Bee Tuna In Home Market Taiwan
Taiwanese tuna trading company and owner of Bumble Bee, FCF Co., Ltd., has introduced the US brand domestically with two pouched tuna flavors, ‘Spicy Chili Thai’ and ‘Lemon and Pepper’. The...