The American supermarket chain Whole Foods Market has started offering a plant-based tuna replacement salad behind their counters. The tuna alternative ingredient is under the Good Catch...
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Americans Paying More For Thai Pet Food Than Canned Tuna
The export market of Thai canned tuna pet food expanded during 2020 and reached the highest point in at least the past 10 years. Although the leading importer, Japan, continued to reduce its...
Low Catches & EU Demand Keeping Manta Price High
The price at which whole round frozen skipjack is traded at the port of Manta in Ecuador has remained at high levels for the past couple of months. This dynamic is abnormal for this time of...
Tuna Landings By EU Fleets Generate Steady Revenue
The latest report says that the EU fishing fleets remained profitable overall, despite the effects of COVID-19 on the vessels and fish markets. The 2020 Annual Economic Report covers the...
Korea Intensifies Effort To Protect Foreign Tuna Fishermen
The Korean government is stepping up its game to protect migrant workers in its distant water fishing fleets, the tuna sector being one of them. Many of the foreign crews working on Korean...
TU Partners With Thai Food Chain For DIY Canned Tuna Salad
Thai Union (TU) has partnered with a well-known restaurant chain in Thailand, After Yum, which is famous for its spicy salad menus. The result is a DIY spicy tuna salad in a can which aims to...
Drop In Q4 EPO Catches Explain Current Peak Prices
Tuna fleets in the EPO were catching record-high levels of tuna during the first half of 2020, which might have led to the belief that the peak volumes of 2019 would be surpassed. However,...
Soon Robots Could Be Butchering And Cleaning Tuna For Canning
An EU project has introduced new technologies for the tuna industry, aiming to automate the preparation prior to canning with the help of robotics to increase the European processing sector's...
RFMOs Stepping Up On Shark Bycatch Mitigation
Bycatch is an issue that tuna RFMOs pay a great deal of attention to and shark species are especially vulnerable to fishing gears such as gillnets. Several sharks that end up as bycatch in...
Subway Makes Social Media Battle Ground On Baseless Legal Claims
Subway has taken to social media channels with a clever marketing strategy to fight against “baseless claims” that the tuna in its sandwiches is not real. The company is facing a lawsuit filed...
Is Subway Court Case Based On Fake News?
The largest fast-food chain in the US, Subway, was sued by a group of Californian customers in January for allegedly selling tuna sandwiches and wraps that do not contain any tuna. The...
Dutch Co. To Rename Plant-Based Tuna After TUNO Moniker Dispute
Dutch-based company, Schouten Europe B.V., has decided to change the name for its plant-based tuna alternative product. A legal complaint was brought against it by Atlantic Natural Foods (ANF)...
Readers: Cell-Based Tuna Will Not Take Off Soon
Considering the several investments made recently in the cell-based tuna sector, Atuna turned to its readers to ask whether they thought cell-based grown tuna would take off within the next...
2020 Skipjack Deliveries To Bangkok Surged After Q4 Overturn
During most of 2020, skipjack raw material arriving at Thai ports was low compared to the previous year. By September, it looked like the year was going to end with less tuna offloaded in...
Seiners Can Safely Catch More Skipjack, Say IOTC Scientists
Skipjack is in a good state in the Indian Ocean (IO) region, according to a new report released by the IOTC's Scientific Committee (SC). Its new catch limit for the skipjack stock is higher...
EU Alerts: Maldivian Tuna Recall Due To High Histamine
Throughout Europe, authorities brought a total of three tuna-related issues before the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in January. Two of these incidents involved products with...
Shipbuilder Denies Graft Money To Mozambican Officials In Tuna Bonds Scam
Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder, Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding), has denied making corrupt payments to former Mozambican officials in the well-known tuna bonds scandal, which brought the...
Taiwanese Observers Frustrated With Job And Lack Of Protection
Taiwan's EU yellow card was removed in 2019 after the country stepped up its measures against IUU fishing. The critical issue was the need to increase observer coverage among its vessels. But,...
Major Global Tuna Highlights January 2021
The global tuna industry was not off to a great start in the first month of 2021. World-wide traders were having a hard time finding containers to deliver their products due to the shortage of...
Sustainable Tuna Producers Facing Evaporating MSC Premiums?
The popularity of MSC tuna products is increasing but with a growing number of MSC tuna certifications being introduced, there is the question if such testaments give an advantage when it...