The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s report, ‘Out of Sight: Modern Slavery in Pacific Supply Chains of Canned Tuna’, calls for more worker protection in the...
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Key Philippine Tuna Fishing Ground Closed For 3 Months
The Davao Gulf in the Philippines is now closed for commercial fishing until August 31. Tuna and other pelagic fish get a three-month period of rest to spawn and recover. The Bureau of...
New Method Of Scanning Tuna Tails For Quality
A new AI technology named Tuna Scope can now help assess the quality of super-frozen wild-caught tuna. The standard of the fish can be seen by just scanning the tuna tail with the...
Rare Bluefin Tuna Catches Off Texas Coast
Atlantic bluefin tuna have been caught off the Texas Coast in a rare occurrence. Two of the tuna were caught in Port Aransas. The Center for Sportfish Science and...
Ministers Agree On Remaining Vigilant In Managing PNA Tuna Industry
Ministers for the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have come to an agreement on a number of pressing matters regarding a range of issues on the sustainable management and...
Brazil Considers Raising Its Atlantic Tuna Quota
Brazil intends to defend an increase in quota for tuna fishing in the Atlantic Ocean from its current five percent to ten percent. The allowed volume for sustainable tuna fishing in the...
Palau’s Parliament Seeks Legislation For Longliners In Its EEZ
Palau’s Parliament presented a bill amending the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (PNMS) to permit longliners to fish in 20 percent of the Domestic Fishing Zone. Currently, the PNMS Act...
Call For Peruvian Tuna Canning For Domestic Consumption
In a newspaper column, the President of National Fisheries Society, Cayetana Aljovín, made a call for the improvement and diversification of Peru’s tuna industry. In the...
Ten People Fall Sick Eating Bluefin From Sicilian Street Vendors
In recent weeks, ten people were admitted to a Sicilian hospital for histamine poisoning. Patients said that they fell ill after eating bluefin bought from street vendors at various...
Major Global Tuna Highlights In May
There have been many ups and downs for the global tuna community in the month of May ranging from spiraling downward prices to lawsuits. Atuna brings you...
US Court Turns Down Lischewski’s First Amendment Rights Claim
Chris Lischewski’s plea of his freedom of speech used to request dismissal of the criminal case against him has failed. On May 24, a California District Court judge ruled the claim,...
Grupo Calvo Keeps Its Lead in Canned Tuna In Spain
Spanish seafood cannery Grupo Calvo has released its annual financial earnings. Though there was a decrease in its turnover, it has kept its top position in the Spanish market...
Ex-StarKist CEO’s Amusing Tweet To Neighbour To Cut Lawn
Donald Binotto, former CEO of StarKist, seems to have a beef with his famous neighbor, American football player Antonio Brown. The miffed Binotto took to Twitter, not...
Record EU Orders For Spanish Canners In Q1
Spanish exports of seafood products experienced a year-on-year increase of 6 percent in Q1 2019. Both the volume (50,450 tons) and the amount (EUR 2.39 million) are record-breaking...
US Fishers Accuse NMFS Of Barring Them From Tuna Study
An association of US tuna fishers has brought a case against the US federal government for improperly prohibiting it from participating in a scientific tuna study. ...
Chicken Of The Sea Settles With Food Preparers
Tuna company Chicken of the Sea has settled USD 6.5 million with a group of restaurants, caterers, and other commercial food preparers in a deal to end claims brought against it for allegedly...
Overloaded EU Market For Tuna Loins Pushes Manta Prices
The global downward trend in skipjack prices is also being felt in Manta. Currently, the SKJ1.8:MNT is around USD 1,200 CFR per M/T for whole round frozen raw tuna. It...
Making Headway In FIPs With Fishery Progress
“Companies want to support FIPs but inconsistent and unreliable documentation has made it risky for buyers,” says Kristin Sherwood, Program Director for FishChoice. ...
How Probable Is The Success Of Dolphin-Safe Class Action Suit?
Recently, Atuna reported about the class action suit against the Big Three -- Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and StarKist -- by US consumers. The complainants are suing the...
Readers: Consumers Likely To Pay The Price US Tariffs On China
On May 13 Atuna asked readers if the increase in US duty from 10 to 25 percent on Chinese tuna loins import will affect the retail prices of canned Chunk Light Tuna. Our readers have...