Incidents involving tuna varied across France, Spain, and Sweden in August. Histamine detection was the root cause of all the alerts reported in the EU Regulatory Rapid Alert System for Food...
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PNA Floats Idea Of 6-Year Trial On Skipjack Harvest Strategy
Officials on behalf of the PNA nations and Tokelau expressed concerns about the time track for introducing Harvest Strategies for the key tuna stocks in the WCPO. They floated the idea of...
Exciting Disney Tuna Game For Young Kids
The gaming generation is now hooked onto a newly released adventure game, Disney Dreamlight Valley. It could particularly excite the young children of our readers as the game features a...
Readers: Inflation Will Boost Tuna Sales
Now inflation becomes more being felt, especially for lower-income households, Atuna dropped the question to its readers whether that will stimulate canned tuna sales in their markets. Around...
Philippine Adjudicator Gets Prison Term For Tuna Extortion
Ex-provincial agrarian reform adjudicator, Henry Gelacio, was convicted of extorting cash and tuna from litigants 15 years ago. The former employee of the Philippine Department of Agrarian...
FAO Says Yes To Global Transshipment Guidelines
A major intergovernmental forum has endorsed a set of rules on global transshipments, which are a “powerful tool” to help combat IUU fishing by closing loopholes in regulations. The at-sea...
US Longliners Albacore Catch Under Exception Rule Evaluated
Tomorrow, the Scientific and Statistical Committee meeting will take place virtually in Honolulu, Hawaii. On the agenda are the mid-2022 reports of the Hawaii and American Samoa longline...
New Tuna Farming Feed Tested To Avoid Slime
A feed pilot project is being conducted on a cage of around 150 Atlantic bluefin tuna off the coast of Marsaxlokk in Malta. The Singaporean company, Sustainable Kinetics, produces the feed...
CEO Guilty Of All Offenses With “Frankenstein Helicopters”
A US Court found John Walker guilty of 110 charges related to his tuna spotting helicopter business. The Hansen Helicopters' CEO was tried for defrauding the FAA and National Transportation...
Greenpeace: US Consumers Must Act On Bumble Bee’s Labor Rights Issues
Greenpeace US has put out a call to US consumers to send a message to Bumble Bee to take action and protect workers in its supply chain. On its website, the NGO pointed out that it is not the...
Shangdong Zhonglu’s Two New Tuna Seiners Launched
Two new tuna purse seiners were successfully launched this week in China. They were built by Mawei Shipbuilding for the publicly listed fishing company, Shangdong Zhonglu Oceanic Fisheries. In...
Infractions Found By WCPO Observers Seldom Result in Sanctions
The latest report from the WCPFC shows that purse seining and transshipments had very little observer coverage last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, the average number of days these...
Third Bluefin Fishery Achieves MSC Certification
Spanish family business Atún Rojo del Estrecho S.L., which trades as JC Mackintosh, has achieved MSC certification for its bluefin fishing in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean...
Disappointing Performance Of Seiners Makes IO Skipjack More Expensive
The Seychelles skipjack price has been following the global market situation and deals were made at higher costs to processors. The IO yellowfin price remained more or less the same this...
Tesco Wants 100 Percent Observer Coverage In Supply Chain
Tesco aims to roll out 100 percent observer coverage and bycatch mitigation measures across its supply chains including tuna. The UK retailer pledged this after it joined Sustainable Fisheries...
IUU Accused Venezuelan Seiner Burned In Port
The outcry by Colombian artisanal fishers about purse seiner ‘Taurus I’ illegally fishing in a marine protected area in the Chocó Department has taken another turn. On September 6, the vessel...
Filipino Tuna Fishers Losing Frigate Volumes
Philippines-flagged vessels managed to expand their bigeye and yellowfin volumes in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2021. This week, the Philippine Statistics...
CAB: Small Ecuadorian EPO Yellowfin Fishery Should Receive MSC Cert
The assessment body, LRQA, has determined that the small Ecuadorian purse seine tropical tuna fishery should receive an MSC certification. The results were published in a Final Draft Report...
Pacific Island States Agitated Against Term “Indo-Pacific”
Some Pacific Island states are not amused by larger nations referring to them with the term "Indo-Pacific". They prefer to to be perceived as a group of nations with different views and needs...
Poor Catches Propelling Bangkok Skipjack Price
Reports of expected poorer supply in the coming month is pushing up the price of whole round frozen skipjack at the Bangkok benchmark market. Even though processor demand remains low, those...