The cost of doing business in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is high compared to its competitors such as the Philippines, says Sylvester Pokajam. The Chairman of the PNG Fishing Industry Association...
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Spain Rapidly Losing Business In Africa
The shipments of canned tuna from EU countries to Africa dramatically fell during the first nine months of 2020 (Q3). Spain continued to lose business in the region while other much smaller...
What Consumers Read And Don’t Read On Tuna Labels
Italians are known to love canned tuna – on average they consume 2.5 kilograms of the product per year. Among all EU nations, their household nominal expenditure is the highest when it comes...
Poor Catches Spur Seychelles Skipjack Price
The situation around the tuna landings in Seychelles is becoming worrisome for the fleet and the canneries. December is usually a good month for catching in the Indian Ocean (IO), but last...
AENOR Logo Has New Goals To Grow In Spanish Market
Processors in Spain are planning to increase the production of tuna featuring the APR AENOR logo in 2021. The expansion will be led by tuna companies Salica and Garavilla -- owned by Bolton...
Tuna Fisheries Taking Care Of Endangered Ray Bycatch
Many marine species can end up as bycatch during tuna fishing. Manta rays are among the non-targeted animals that can be found in a purse seiner’s net or on longline hooks. To counter this,...
Canada Nearly Doubles Canned Tuna Biz With Italians
North and South American markets imported a record volume of canned tuna from the EU in the third quarter of 2020 (Q3), with nearly half the products delivered to Canada. The EU export canned...
Seiner Operators Facing Higher Fuel Cost After Oil Price Hike
Oil prices took a bullish turn with the value hitting the highest last week, a peak not seen since the coronavirus hit. The hike in the benchmark Brent crude impacts the tuna industry as the...
UK Joining IOTC Could Extend Conflict With Mauritius
The UK is the latest member of the IOTC. The kingdom joined the RFMO as a contracting party ahead of the end of the BREXIT transition period on December 31. There are no UK-flagged vessels...
Century Pacific Sets Ambitious Targets For 2021
Century Pacific Food (CNPF) has set a conservative growth target of 10 percent for this year after a phenomenal 20 percent increase in its 2020 revenue. In previous years, the Philippine tuna...
Study States Tuna Aggregate Faster In New DFADs In The Atlantic
A group of researchers has published a report characterizing how tunas occupy drifting FADs (dFADs) in order to improve the understanding of their aggregation dynamics around these objects....
Analyst Claims Dongwon Q4 Earnings Will Exceed Expectations
An investment company has predicted that Dongwon Industries’ performance will keep growing as the demand for canned tuna also increases while the supply for the product is...
Current Fisheries Policies Potentially Contributing To Fish Overexploitation
More than a third of the world's fisheries did not manage to keep fish stocks at maximum sustainable yield levels by 2020 as mapped out by one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
Skipjack Trading Slow, But Market Confident Thai Plants Will Stay Operational
Despite the worry that Bangkok's tuna processors might face supply issues with the increasing number of infection cases, business is carrying on as usual. The news from Atuna’s sources in the...
9 Days And Taiwanese Longliner Crew Still Missing
US authorities are stepping up their efforts to help find the crew of the Taiwanese tuna longliner, ‘Yong Yu Sin No 18’, who have been missing for more than a week. Initially, the owner...
TU Continues Investments Outside Core Tuna Business
The Thai Union Group (TU) has announced the creation of a new company that will manufacture and distribute supplement products. The initiative is a joint venture between TU’s wholly-owned...
Asian Processors Facing 20-ft Container Shortage & Price Hike
A shortage of containers has been forcing carriers to sail at a lower capacity than usual. The demand for the transport boxes is high, but there are simply not enough empty ones to cover the...
Social Media Exaggerates Contamination In Thai Cannery
Thai officials have stated that the information circulating on social media this week that there is a fresh surge of 900 COVID-19 cases after 3,800 tests were done in a canned tuna factory in...
IOTC Schedules Special Session On Yellowfin & Skipjack Sustainability
The IOTC special session which will be held in March will be focusing on more than just the rebuilding of yellowfin stock. The latest circular from the RFMO shows that the event will also...
Readers Split On Whether Tuna Industry Will Maintain 2020 Volumes
Atuna readers are quite evenly split on whether the global canned tuna market will be able to continue its good retail sales of last year into 2021. Since the lockdown started in the first...