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....
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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...
COVID-19 Still Casts A Shadow Over Indian Seiners
The Indian ban on deep-sea fishing that was imposed due to the COVID-19 outbreak is nearing its end on July 31, but whether operations will resume is still up for debate. The uncertainty...
Portugal Promotes Consumption Of National Tuna
Portuguese authorities joined together to start the campaign Let’s Preserve What Is Ours, which promotes the consumption of preserved seafood produced nationally to favor the country's economy...
At Sea Transshipments Now Trackable Via Global Fishing Watch
A new public internet portal has been set up by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that will help policymakers and fishery managers to better understand transshipment activities. The site follows...
Dutch Retailer Jumbo Launches 100% MSC Private Label Tuna Range
The second biggest Dutch retailer, Jumbo, announced its private label line of eight MSC certified canned seafood in a press release yesterday. Four canned tuna varieties – in brine, sunflower...
Spanish Canner IG Montes Thriving During This Time Of Crisis
In Spain, one of the tuna processing companies that has been thriving during the COVID crisis is the family-owned firm of IG Montes. This is due to the peak in demand from the retail sector,...
Fijian Longliners Catching Less Albacore But More Blue Sharks
Fishing authorities in Fiji have been reporting a big albacore supply shortage for the last couple of years that has been deeply affecting the domestic industry which focuses primarily on this...
Tuna From Stem Cells In Five Years?
Scientists from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology succeeded in developing a technique to spawn fish via Germline Stem Cells (GSC) in vitro. Although the research used trout...
Flying ‘Tuna’ Big Hit On Social Media
The Atuna team is always on the lookout for interesting social media tuna issues and trends. This time we stumbled upon a tuna making an air trip in the claws of a bird flying over Myrtle...