The rising number of discarded bluefins on Italian roadsides is putting officials in a tight spot. The tuna, likely from illegal catches and thrown away by perpetrators while trying to escape...
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Decline In WCPO Yellowfin Bycatch Plunges Q1 Thai Imports
Thai canners imported one-third less unsorted yellowfin raw material in the first quarter of the year and the total business amounted to USD 43.29 million. The large drop was caused by lower...
Green Light For Mauritius’ Multi-Million Dollar Tuna Deal With EU
The European Parliament (EP) is set to approve a new fisheries agreement with Mauritius that allows its fleet to fish in Mauritian waters. A majority of members of the EP voted in favor of the...
Bumble Bee Bets On New MSC Line Of Yellowfin And Albacore Products
Bumble Bee is expanding its premium range of yellowfin cans and pouches with new flavors under the Prime line and is also introducing MSC tuna to several items. It has launched 12 new...
NIRSA Equips Old Seiner With State-Of-The-Art Bearings
The 1973-built purse seiner ‘El Marquez’ fishing for the vertically-integrated Ecuadorian company, NIRSA, was recently upgraded. It was equipped with polymer propeller shaft seals and...
Credit Suisse Complains Facing Unfair Trial In Tuna Bonds Lawsuit
Credit Suisse has complained in the London High Court that it will not face a fair trial if Mozambique does not disclose government documents related to the USD 2 billion scandal that...
Atuna Index Bullish As World Food Prices Fall
During the last 12 months, prices of the main global food commodities that are traded or being sold at the end market have gradually been declining. Meanwhile, the tuna raw material price has...
Fisheries Minister Claims Indonesia Could Become Biggest Tuna Farming Country
Indonesia has high hopes for its aquaculture industry. Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, Minister of Maritime and Fisheries, underlined that it has the potential to become the world’s largest...
Restaurant Sues Boy For Sushi Terrorism And Other Social Media Trends
Sushi terrorism is not without consequences. A Japanese teenager's video of him licking a soy sauce bottle and a teacup before putting it back on the belt of a sushi outlet went viral. The...
Next Bangkok Tuna Conference Scheduled For May 2024
The 18th edition of the Infofish World Tuna Trade Conference and Exhibition will be held next year in Bangkok from May 20 to 22 at the Shangri-La Hotel. The organizer, InfoFish, has decided to...
Despite Low Fuel Price, WCPO Seiners Feeling Impact Of Overheads
Low international crude oil prices have reduced the value of marine fuel for purse seiners. However, vessel operators are burdened by several overhead costs that have cut into their profits....
Inflation Pushes Grupo Calvo’s Turnover 2022 Up, But Profit Shrinks
The Spanish firm Grupo Calvo has reported a strong turnover growth in 2022 of almost one-quarter more than the previous year. This was a direct consequence of all the business’ final products'...
Thai Processors Increased WR Skipjack Intake In Q1
Thai processors increased their skipjack intake in the year's first quarter, bringing the business to USD 217.86 million. It was the second-highest volume they imported in the past five years....
Ocean Family Signs Deal To Expand WCPO Seiner Fleet
Chinese fishing company Zhejiang Ocean Family Co. Ltd. and Mawei Shipbuilding closed a deal to build a 76-meter-long purse seiner to sail in the Western Central Pacific Ocean. In 2013, the...
FDA Surveys Seafood Mercury Levels, Aims To Update Guidelines
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting an extensive survey to understand the mercury levels in seafood available to American consumers. It is seeking a contractor to test...
Indonesian Tuna Fishermen Rescued After Eight Days At Sea
Two artisanal fishermen from a village near Bima city were rescued off the coast of South Sulawesi Islands after being declared missing for eight days. The 62-year-old Mahmudi and 56-year-old...
African Crew Strike Cripples French And Spanish Seiners Operations
The operations of French and Spanish seiners fishing in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were hit by a strike of Senegal and Ivory Coast crew members on June 5. Two Unions had called for the...
WCPO MSC Assessment Hints Close Ties Between Sajo Fisheries And Kiribati
The second MSC certification for Itochu Corporation is inching closer to achievement. The TTKV (Chinese Taipei, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu) WCPO skipjack and yellowfin purse seine fishery's...
Conservas Garavilla Raises MSC Share To 24% Of Tuna Sales
Around one-quarter of the tuna raw material used by Spanish processor Conservas Garavilla in 2022 came from an MSC-certified fishery. More than half of the annual raw material supply was...
52-Day Tuna Gillnet Ban Effect In Southern India Disputed
The annual 52-day fishing ban has begun in the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala. Commercial vessels like gillnetters and trollers, used for catching tuna, are not allowed to fish during...