The EU has extended by one year the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement with Cook Islands. The current protocol allows for 7,000 M/T of tuna to be caught annually by four EU purse...
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Worries Over Yellowfin Being Ignored At IOTC November Meeting
The 24th Session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is scheduled to take place from November 2 to 6 via video conference due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One of the hottest issues...
Chinese Captain Charged For Ordering Killing Of Four ‘Pirates’
A Chinese tuna longliner captain has been officially charged with the killing of four men who were shot at sea from his vessel in 2012. The fatal incident was made public through a video that...
Lukewarm Supply Making SKJ1.8:BKK Speculators Nervous
The Bangkok skipjack value benchmark is resisting the expected bearish trend by many buyers and holding steady in the month of October. Thai canneries are waiting to see how much more supply...
Immaculate First Trip For New Ecuadorian Seiner
The first trip of the Ecuadorian Grupo Jadran’s newly built tuna purse seiner ‘John Paul II’ – 92 meters long and 14 meters wide – went without problems. Towed by three tugboats, the vessel...
FADs Contributed To Success Of Pacific Tagging Expedition
A tuna tagging expedition of 50 days carried out by the Pacific Community (SPC) has just been completed. It managed to deploy a record number of tags, mainly due to the support of the fishing...
Grupomar Equips Seiner With Polymer Tech Bearing
Grupomar installed a state of the art polymer rudder bearing in its 1,174 M/T gross tonnage tuna purse seiner ‘María Luisa' while docked in Manzanillo. The technology was developed by...
EU Processors Expand, Powered By Record Loins Intake In H1 2020
In the last couple of months strong opinions have been voiced about the volume of pre-cooked loin imports in the EU, in particular those under the duty-free Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ). The...
Larger Female Yellowfin Are Potentially Better Breeders?
Researchers have found that larger yellowfin females have larger ovaries and also different fatty acid profiles in their bodies which could lead to better quality offspring compared to their...
When HCR Is Breached, Should Fishing Be Reduced Immediately?
The violation of the Harvest Control Rule (HCR) set by the IOTC for skipjack, and the overfishing of yellowfin, has raised a lot of eyebrows in the industry. NGOs have reacted negatively and...
Atuna Readers Foresee Big Increase In MSC Tuna Sales
The MSC Annual Report, covering April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020, showed that compared to other seafood industries, MSC tuna sales have been dramatically underperforming. Although there has...
Controversy Over Out-Of-State Tuna Gillnetters In Indian Port
The state government of Kerala in India has yet to allow gillnet boats from other states to enter the Kochi harbor due to COVID-19 restrictions. About 600 gillnetters from Tamil Nadu were...
La Niña Keeps EPO Catches At Same Level
EPO purse seiners and pole-and-liners in the first eight months of this year netted almost the same level of tuna as in 2019, according to the latest IATTC data. From January 1 to August 30,...
Tri Marine Hires Tuna Fleet Manager To Lead Sustainability Program
Since August, Christa Svensson has taken on the role of Tri Marine’s Sustainability Program Manager. In the past, she worked as Fleet Manager at Ilwaco Fish Company which fishes for albacore....
Fiji Longline Fishery One Step Closer To Certifying Its Bigeye
The quest to extend Fiji Fishing Industry Association MSC Group’s sustainable certification has been greenlighted by Lloyd’s Register, the third-party assessment body overseeing the case. The...
H1 Imports: Spanish Canners Still Hooked On Cheap Chinese Loins
Tuna pre-cooked loins buyers in Spain have been steadily increasing their intake and this past half-year they purchased record-level volumes. One Asian origin, marked as controversial by...
High Court Rejects Calvo’s Appeal For €6.5 Million Penalty
The Spanish tuna corporation, Grupo Calvo, was trying to discard a Supreme Court’s decision against it in a dispute involving default interests on VAT tuna imports from El Salvador during...
Retailers’ Determination Crucial For MSC Tuna To Grow
Tuna may be the world’s most consumed wild-caught species, but it is still lagging behind in retail sales when it comes to MSC certified sustainable products. However, some experts in the...
John West UK Does Not Source IO Yellowfin
The John West brand has told Atuna that it does not source yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) for its products. Yesterday, another major UK brand, Princes, declared that it will reduce its...
US Captain Arrested In British Territory Cleared Of All Charges
The US Captain of the tuna longliner ‘Rebel Lady’ accused of illegally entering the British Virgin Islands (BVI) during the COVID-19 border closure period has been cleared of all charges. The...