Seychelles will soon be signing an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the United Kingdom (UK) to safeguard IOT trade with the UK ahead of March 29, the date which...
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Saupiquet Renews Fleet With Smaller Piriou Seiner
France’s second largest canned tuna brand, Saupiquet has ordered a small 67-meter purse seiner at Piriou’s yard in Vietnam to be delivered by 2020. The design of this brine freezing vessel...
Quiet Trading, SKJ1.8:BKK Prices Remain Fixed
There has been no movement in the SKJ1.8: BKK price at the start of this year. With hardly any trading activity taking place, the level remains at USD 1,300 M/T, although there are...
Princes Group: Raw Mat Prices To Blame For Profit Dip
The Princes group has seen a GBP 13 million (USD 16 million) pre-tax profit drop for the financial year ending March 31, 2018. This decrease occurred in spite of the 6% rise in...
Spain’s Major University Launches Fishing Marketing Course
The faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at UNED will host the first diploma of profession expert in Fishing Marketing.The National Distance Education University (UNED) has more than...
Ecuadorian Diesel Offset: Tuna Fleet Continues To Miss Out
Despite the recent reversal price hike of diesel for public and private transport in Ecuador, it remains to be seen whether this exemption would also apply to industrial fuel which is used by...
Canadians Buying More Canned From Indonesia And Vietnam
Southeast Asian countries dominate the canned tuna export to Canada, accounting for more than 92 percent of the total volume of tuna supplies. Canada has a total area of 9.9 million...
Ex-bankers Acted Alone On Hidden Debt Scam – Credit Suisse
Global bank Credit Suisse, whose former employees were arrested over charges of involvement in a USD 850 million tuna fraud, maintains the employees acted on their own personal interest...
UK Demand Continues To Decline In Q3, Philippines Taking The Market
United Kingdom has shown an overall steady decline in the import of canned tuna over the last two years, losing over 14,000 M/T since 2016 third quarter or 16 percent of the total volume. This...
US China Trade War: No Additional Taxes On Tuna… For Now
Three days of intense negotiations between China and the US has ended with no further tariffs being implemented, neither on canned tuna and frozen pre-cooked loins from...
Peru Sets Quota For Eastern Pacific Bonito
A total quota of 64,000 tons for the eastern Pacific bonito was set by Peru’s Ministry of Production in 2019 for artisanal fishermen. Bonito (Sarda chiliensis) belongs to...
Echebastar Launches Innovative, New 1,200 M/T Seiner
The “Aterpe Alai” was launched earlier this week at the Zamakona shipyard in Santurtzi. According to Astilleros Zamakona, the ship holds a number of...
China Getting Serious On Port State Measures To Combat IUU
A joint ministry port state initiative has been announced in an effort to combat IUU fishing in China. The initiative is the latest in a number of measures carried out...
3,000 Kilos Of Tuna Tip Onto Main Road
Over 3,000 kilos of frozen tuna has been dropped on O Salgueiral’s roundabout in Spain. The truck transporting the fish was making its way along the road when the rear door...
ANFACO Casts Doubt On EC Lifting Thai Yellow Card
The Spanish canning association has urged the European Commission to keep a close eye on Thailand following the withdrawal of their IUU yellow card. ANFACO contends that...
Chicken Of The Sea Settles Anti-trust Lawsuit With Retailers
Thai Union’s Chicken of the Sea (COS) International has reached a cash settlement with 29 companies to resolve an anti-trust lawsuit concerning a price fixing collusion from 2010 to...
Mini Purse Seiner On Fire In Mexico
A purse seine tuna boat moored at the Mazatlan dock in Sinaloa, Mexico caught fire last Monday at around 14:30 hours. The purse seine vessel “Tizoc” was anchored at...
Montenegro Dreams About Its Own Local Tuna Brand
Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country in Eastern Europe with less than 700,000 inhabitants and with a 295 km Mediterrenean coastline, is planning to open its own tuna farming and...
Venezuelan Tuna Fishermen Accused Of Piracy In The Caribbean
The economic misery in debt-wreck Venezuela has driven many unemployed local fishermen to become pirates, according to Colin Freeman, foreign correspondent of the British newspaper The...
Heavy Users Of Rio Mare Tuna Can Win Daily Gift Packages
Leading Italian tuna brand Rio Mare boosts its sales in the beginning of the year through discount promotions from the period of January 7 to March 17, 2019. Consumers may also choose to...