Last week, Atuna reported that prices for salmon will continue to hike in 2019 despite a growth in supply. The price range is expected to be at NOK 55 (USD 6.41) per kg to NOK 65...
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Atuna Poll: Lowest Price For SKJ1.8:BKK Projected To Be Over USD 1,100
Atuna reported on the slow trading in Bangkok prices as the year began, flatlining at the rate of USD 1,300 M/T since December 2018. In a separate poll, majority of Atuna voters...
Coast Guard Cutter Back On Duty In South Pacific
The Coast Guard Cutter Melon (WHEC 717) continues patrolling the South Pacific in its mission to curb illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, following a stop in Fiji in...
StarKist Settles Walmart’s Tuna Price-Fixing Claims For USD 20M
Tuna giant StarKist Co. has paid off USD 20.5 million worth of settlements to Walmart in a bid to resolve all antitrust claims related to price fixing charges against the...
Laptop Switched For Same Weight Tuna Cans
After a two-day trial, a US jury this week convicted a man for causing uproar and firing shots in a Maryland shopping mall.The shopper had bought a laptop computer, but then returned...
ISSF Finds That Only 5 Tuna Stocks Pass MSC Criteria
Only five out of 19 commercial tuna stocks earned a passing score for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), according to a report published by the ISSF, the tuna industry's own...
Mercury In Tuna Related To Location Caught, New Study Finds
An investigation has been launched into the levels of methylmercury contained in tuna, in a bid to understand why the concentrations of this compound vary by geographical region. ...
EU Preps Help For Its Fishermen If Hit By No-Deal Brexit
The European Commission proposed two contingency plans to mitigate the impacts of a possible “no deal” Brexit on EU fisheries. The first proposal allows fishermen and operators from...
OPAGAC Pledges Change Towards Human Rights Violations
The Spanish organization OPAGAC had joined the United Nations Global Compact with the aim of promoting human rights for fishermen in the sector, particularly in Asian fleets. By...
Overwhelming Proof Surfaces For $850 M Tuna Fraud Probe
Over a million pages of transcripts of phone calls, emails, bank transfers and financial documents will be used as evidence in the USD 850 million tuna bond scandal, according to Federal...
Plans For Joint Fishing Agency In Vigo, Manta Proposed
The President of Central American Parliament has begun discussions with the intent to establish an Ibero-American fishing agency. President Irma Amaya met with...
PNA Announces VDS Expansion
Members of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have outlined a list of significant developments they plan to implement in the next few years. The eight members alongside...
Seafood Summit Highlights Female Leaders
Over 100 top female leaders in the seafood sector attended the third annual Women in Seafood Leadership Summit by Intrafish to discuss how empowerment of women in the industry....
New Study Reports Cannibalism In Bluefin Larvae
Cannibalism has been found to be a feeding strategy in bluefin tuna according to a study in the Western Mediterranean. A team of researchers working in the Balearic Sea carried out a...
PNG’s Rabaul Tuna Hub Set To Be Built By 2021
Talks about a tuna facility project in Rabaul, New Guinea Islands (NGI) Region in Papua New Guinea are being revived again as the five-year fisheries development plan nears its projected...
SKJ1.8:SEY Prices Weaken Due To High Stock Levels
Prices for frozen skipjack in the Indian Ocean hub of Seychelles have declined 17.39 percent from EUR 1,150 (USD 1,304) in 2018 to EUR 950 (USD 1,077) today. However, the...
EU Tuna Vessels Secure Continued Access To Cote D’Ivoire EEZ
The Fisheries Partnership Agreement between Cote d’Ivoire and the EU have been approved by the European Parliaments’ Committee on Fisheries. The decision to...
2019 EPO Tuna Fishing Season Commences
Over 270 vessels listed in the IATTC active purse seine database are due to begin fishing this week. These vessels belong to 10 countries in the IATTC including a number of cooperating...
Seychelles Welcomes Delegation From Thai Union
The President of Seychelles, has hosted a reception for Dr. Sven Massen, Director of Europe Operations in Thai Union.President Danny Faure welcomed the delegation at the State...
Good News For Tuna? Salmon Prices Expected To Hike In 2019
High salmon prices are expected to remain in 2019 as global farmed salmon production increased by 5 percent in 2018. “We expect the price range for 2019 to be NOK 55 (USD 6.41) per kg to NOK...