Japan’s government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have signed a funding agreement for a project to promote the sustainable development of the tuna value...
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High Local Wages Force Chinese Fishing Firms To Look For Cheap Foreign Labor
The ever-increasing wages of domestic labor in China have pushed tuna and seafood fishing companies to rely more on the foreign workforce for their daily activities. Overall, Chinese fishing...
Will Biden Launch China Back Into The Loins Business?
The US-China trade war has been dragging out for more than two years and has deeply affected tuna sector business between the two countries. However, with a new US President at the helm, is...
Should The Purse Seine IO Yellowfin Quota Be Cut?
The debate about cutting the purse seine yellowfin quota in the IO has once again been brought to the fore. Last year, retailers in the EU and UK gave an ultimatum to the IOTC that they would...
Jealsa Closes 2020 With €701 Mil Worth Of Sales
The President of Jealsa, Jesús Manuel Alonso Escurís, has announced that the Spanish tuna company will close 2020 with a year-on-year sales increase of 11 percent. He added that even though...
Albacore Surplus Dominated Japan’s Frozen Tuna Exports
Exports of frozen tuna from Japan shot up during 2020 mainly thanks to an exceptionally good year for albacore catches. While vessels quadrupled their landings of this tuna, all the other...
Where Is Seychelles Seiners’ Disappearing Bycatch Going?
Tuna purse seiners operating in Seychelles EEZ appear not to be landing their bycatch at the country's port as required. The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) said that it has started taking...
WCPFC Extends Observer Suspension Through May 15
The WCPFC Chair, Jung-re Riley Kim, has announced the RFMO’s decision to extend for another three months the temporary suspension of the purse seiner observer program until May 15. The other...
Court Orders Sale Of US Crime Boss’s Tuna Longliner
A tuna longliner has become an important subject in a federal criminal lawsuit in the US. A Hawaiian District Court judge has seized and ordered the sale of 90-ft (27.4 m) tuna longliner,...
Atuna Readers Agree That Subway Court Case Not Based On Facts
The majority of Atuna readers have stated that they think that the ‘fake tuna’ court case against Subway is not based on facts. America’s largest fast-food chain was slapped with a lawsuit in...
EU Signs New Fisheries Deal With Gabon
The EU has signed a new fisheries partnership agreement with Gabon for another five years. European tuna vessels and trawlers will have access to Gabon’s waters for an annual financial...
A Massive Influx Of Tuna Loins In The US
The volume of frozen tuna pre-cooked loins delivered to the US took a big jump during 2020. China’s exile from this market was almost completely sealed last year, while other...
Mauritius Builds IO Tuna Loins Business In US
Afritex Ventures, a company headquartered in Mauritius, has teamed up with American retailer Fresh Thyme Market, to introduce fresh tuna products into the US. The African company has a...
Asda Pledges To Reduce Bycatch In Seafood Supply Chain
UK’s second-largest supermarket, Asda, has pledged its commitment to safeguarding endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) marine species and prevent them from entering its seafood supply...
IOTC Corrects 2021 Catch Limits, Allocates Almost 14,000 M/T More Yellowfin
Last December, IOTC revealed the catch limits for each of the fleets targeting yellowfin in the Indian Ocean (IO). However, new information has come to light that the quota had to be adjusted....
Thai Union Secures USD 400 Million Loan To Achieve Sustainability Goals
The Thai Union group has received a massive loan worth hundreds of millions of dollars which will be used to pursue the company's sustainability goals. If such objectives - which include more...
Not Much Progress In Thai Union’s FIPs Yet
As part of its Tuna Commitment and SeaChange® sustainability strategy, global company Thai Union (TU) firmly promised to have a minimum of 75 percent of its branded tuna products sourced from...
Thai Union Invested In NOTuna Product Made From Fruit Fly Larvae
Israeli start-up, Flying SpArk, makes alternative proteins from fruit fly larvae. One of the items produced via this process is NOTuna – a product that looks like canned tuna chunks and seems...
Ireland’s Food Safety Authority Recalls Tuna But Fails To Show Origin
The Food Safety Authority (FSA) of Ireland put out an alert on Monday to recall batches of tuna products but curiously did not announce the country of origin of the items. The call back...
IOTC Clash: Maldives Calls For A Massive Yellowfin Cut By EU Seiners
The discussion around reducing yellowfin catches in the Indian Ocean (IO) is going to have some IOTC members butting heads during the upcoming Special Session in March regarding this tuna...