The import of frozen whole rounds to Thailand dropped in the first half of this year due to low WCPO catches and lack of demand for raw materials by canneries. Indonesia was Thailand’s top...
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IATTC Adopts Harvest Control Rules for All Tropical Tuna
The IATTC annual meeting closed on Friday. It adopted harvest control rules (HCRs) for all tropical tunas and the desired harvest strategy (HS) for North Pacific albacore. Good progress was...
Marshall Islands Gets International Recognition For Efforts To Curb IUU Fishing
Marshall Islands, with one of the busiest tuna transshipment ports, was recently recognized for its work to prevent illegal fishing. The International Fisheries Monitoring, Control, and...
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...
Readers: Proposed Tinplate Tariff Makes US Canned Tuna Production Non-Competitive
The US government is considering a 300 percent tax hike on imported tinplate steel used for the manufacturing of tuna cans. A vast majority of Atuna’s readers think this proposed tariff will...
Grupo Calvo Bids Adieu To Its Only Spanish Flagged Seiner
The Spanish tuna company Grupo Calvo sold purse seiner 'Montemaior', its only vessel flagged to Spain. Albino Morán Shipbrokers, a company involved in the sale and purchase of fishing...
Ecuador In State of Emergency After Murder Of Presidential Candidate
Ecuador's President, Guillermo Lasso, declared a two-month state of emergency after presidential candidate and popular drug crime fighter, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated on Wednesday...
Shark Conservation & Bio FADs Big Concern For IATTC Members
Biodegradable FADs and reducing shark bycatch were some of the topics discussed during the ongoing IATTC annual meeting. On August 10, an EU proposal on biodegradable drifting FADs was revised...
Maldives Top Supplier Of Skipjack WR To Bangkok Canneries In H1
Frozen skipjack volumes imported by Thai producers contracted by 14 percent in the first half of the year. While many major seiner fleets' deliveries saw a massive decline, the...
‘Operation Nasse’ Puts A Stop To Multiple IUU Fishing Incidents In WCPO
For the past eight years, IUU fishing activities in the tuna-rich Pacific Ocean have been closely monitored by New Zealand, Australia, and France through ‘Operation Nasse’. When authorities...
Philippine Tuna Congress Focuses On Sustainability And Monitoring
The Philippine tuna industry is gearing up for the national tuna congress, an annual event that brings together stakeholders from the sector. The 23rd Socsksargen Federation of Fishing...
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...
Lower Skipjack Catches Pushed Down WR Tuna Supply To Thailand In H1
A sharp fall in skipjack whole rounds weakened the overall supply of raw material to canneries in Thailand in the first half of 2023. It was propelled by low volumes of tuna catches from major...
South And North Pacific Albacore Fisheries Seek MSC Certification For 4th Time
The American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA) and Western Fishboat Owners Association (WFOA) are aiming for two separate MSC reassessments for North and South Pacific albacore. These...
IATTC Members Express Concern As EPO FAD Sets Reach Peak
Tackling the issue of the ever-increasing number of FADs in the EPO is one of the major discussions in the currently ongoing IATTC annual meeting in Canada. Scientific data shows that the...
PINSA-Owned Dolores Premium Tuna Products To Hit Retail Shelves
The Mexican brand Dolores, owned by Grupo PINSA, launched a new line of premium tuna products on August 8 at an event held in Mexico City. Ten novel items will hit retail shelves soon,...
Vanuatu Introduces VDS For Seiners In Its EEZ
The Vanuatu government's coffers will soon benefit now that the island nation can charge purse seiners and longliners licensing fees to fish in its waters under the Vessel Day Scheme (VDS). It...
Is American Tuna In Hot Water After US Buyer Demands Class Certification?
A US consumer has asked a Californian federal judge for class certification in the lawsuit against American Tuna Inc. and its corporate parent, World Wise Foods. The US labeling law does not...
Bougainville PNG Island On Mission To Start Tuna Cannery
A delegation from Bougainville, an autonomous island of Papua New Guinea, is on a fact-finding mission to explore the opportunities to establish a tuna cannery on its soil in partnership with...
Fate Of Deep-Sea Mining In Tuna-Rich Pacific Hangs In The Balance
Environmentalists and people in the tuna sector heaved a sigh of relief after the International Seabed Authority (ISA) postponed discussions on the controversial commercial deep-sea mining...