While according to the UK Office of National Statistics local GDP fell by an astonishing 19.1 percent in the three months to May 2020 and the food services sector lost 71.7 percent of its...
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Routine Seiner Cleaning Fatal To Ghanaian Worker
The routine cleaning of the 39 year-old purse seiner ‘Africa Star’ has become fatal for a man of 27 in Tema port, Ghana. He was working in the hold of the boat when a pipe of the refrigeration...
Philippine Rise A Rich Tuna Fishing Ground?
The Philippine Rise, an undersea volcanic ridge, is considered a rich tuna fishing ground with high biodiversity that became part of the Philippines since the United Nations adopted its claim...
‘Cell-based’ On Future Tuna Label?
The innovative technology to produce tuna and other seafood from fish cells is becoming more and more sophisticated and is expected to be commercialized soon, but how should such products be...
Vietnamese Yellowfin Again Connected To Swedish Health Alerts
Recently, three outbreaks of histamine poisoning in Sweden have affected around 60 people in the southern and central parts of the country. The incidents seem to be isolated cases as the tuna...
Ex-PNA CEO Talks About The Effects Of VDS, Pacifical & MSC
It has been slightly over a month since Fishing for Success was released, the book that tells the story about the PNA members' journey to becoming the world's most powerful and influential...
Major Global Tuna Highlights July 2020
July was an important month for the worldwide tuna sector as prices at the ports of Bangkok and Manta commenced to recover - a consequence of primarily the FAD ban and the first fishing...
Bull Run For Chinese Seafood Shares
What is happening in China with the stock markets as the government encourages the people to invest in shares? Many companies are profiting from it. This includes tuna vessel operator CNFC...
Bluefin MSC Cert Moving Forward While Stock In Decline?
This week the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) concluded its stock assessment for Western Atlantic bluefin and things are not looking very good....
Tri-Union Sues Retailers Over Brand Infringement
Tri-Union Seafoods LLC has filed a lawsuit for trademark counterfeiting and infringement against three New Jersey retailers who have been illegally selling Van Camp's canned tuna imported from...
Do Consumers Have A Clue About FAO Zones On A Tuna Can?
In Europe, it is required by law that a producer has to specify the catch area by the FAO code on a tuna can. That rule applies to all seafood products sold within the economic block. But do...
Bumble Bee Says Bye-Bye To Horatio The Bee
Bumble Bee has launched a new tuna product called Protein on the Run, which looks to supply consumers with a healthy snack high in protein. Although the company already has several...
Australian Tuna Longline Fishery Recommended To Keep MSC Logo
Australian Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery aiming for MSC re-assessment for albacore, yellowfin, bigeye, and swordfish has entered the last stage as the Final Draft Report included the...
Princes UK Drops Plastic Containers
Princes Food BV, which is responsible for the canned tuna brand of the same name, has announced that it will stop using expanded polystyrene (EPS) containers in its Napolitana and Hunger...
Study: Few Tuna Suppliers To The EU Have Anti-Slavery Policies
Only slightly over a tenth of tuna suppliers to Europe have any sort of mechanism to identify slavery issues in their supply chain. This is stated by a new study performed by Deloitte. The...
Start Of Veda Accelerates Manta’s Skipjack Price Rise
The first 2020 EPO veda has just officially started, and the skipjack price in the port of Manta in Ecuador is already rapidly increasing. However, this acceleration is also the consequence of...
Money Bags From Purse Seine Nets
The Spanish association Bermeo Tuna World Capital in collaboration with Echebastar, AZTI technological center, and the textile company Ternua have launched the SARETU project in the Indian...
Aussies Want Unsustainable Food Off Their Shelves
A new study by MSC revealed that more than three-quarters of Australian seafood consumers want supermarkets and restaurants to remove all unsustainable items from the shelves and menus. ...
Century Tuna Superbods Turns Into Online Platform
Century Tuna's annual fitness competition, Superbods, lined up 34 finalists this year. Normally, the leading canned tuna brand in the Philippines would organize challenges to select the male...
FAD Ban Drives Bangkok Skipjack Value Up
Four weeks after the FAD ban officially started in the WCPFC area, the skipjack price in Bangkok has experienced a strong increase. The first signs appeared days after the closure began...