The WCPFC Scientific Committee (SC) meeting is taking place with scientists, fisheries managers, and other stakeholders holding a debate over the world’s biggest tuna fisheries in the WCPO...
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WCPO Purse Seiners Smashed Skipjack Catch Record In 2024
Purse seine fleets in the WCPO captured unprecedented levels of tropical tuna, the highest on record since the 1970s, boosted by decades-high skipjack volumes. The provisional catch was...
Sniffer Dogs Detect Millions Of Euros Worth Of Drugs In Tuna Shipment
In a recently held operation in Guayaquil, two Ecuadorian police dogs helped officials detect nearly 1.6 tons of cocaine hidden in pallets containing tuna products, destined for the EU, worth...
Overwhelming Interest In Dongwon F&B Bonds
The interest in Dongwon F&B bonds exceeded supply by 12 times, reaching KWR 730 billion (USD 525.24 million) at the demand forecast meeting on August 13. The company decided to double the...
US Canners’ Pre-Cooked Loins Buying Remained Stable
The US processors’ purchase of pre-cooked tuna loins saw only a meager uptick from January to June this year, despite worries about these canners having to pay additional taxes. Thailand, the...
Century Pacific Goes The Extra Mile In Plastic Neutrality
The Philippines' leading processor of canned tuna reasserted its commitment to achieving plastic neutrality. Century Pacific recently stated that in 2024, it recovered close to 2,900 M/T of...
Brand Sales Boost Century Pacific H1 Results
Philippines’ tuna producer Century Pacific Food (CNPF) reported a ‘resilient, sustainable’ growth in the first six months of 2025. The sales of branded goods rose while OEM exports declined...
Maltese Environmental Watchdog Pushes Bluefin Farms To Clean Up Slime
Maltese environmental authorities instructed tuna fattening farms to carry out cleaning-up operations on the coast after beachgoers complained about slime in the waters, which prevented them...
US Pouch Importers Anticipated Effects Of Upcoming Tariffs
US buyers increased their purchases of tuna pouches from January to June this year at a slightly lower average price compared to the same period in 2024. US President Donald Trump announced...
Tuna Company Execs Sentenced To Prison For Scam
Seven defendants in the controversial illegal bluefin scam in Spain have agreed to close to two years in prison. Among them are José and Juan Pedro, former directors of the Cartagena-based...
Nauru Seiners Made A Five-Year Low Performance
The number of Nauru-flagged purse seiners dropped in 2024, and so did their catches, which stood at a five-year low last year. Nauru provided information about its purse seine operations,...
Atlantic Bluefins In Gulf Of Maine Show Major Change In Prey
A group of researchers from the University of Maine conducted a study to analyse changes in the diet of Atlantic bluefin in the Gulf of Maine, amid the population decline of Atlantic herring,...
Higher Tuna Prices Slightly Drove Dongwon Industries H1 Sales
Dongwon Industries, the holding company of Dongwon Group, reported an increase in turnover and operating profit in H1 2025, due to balanced growth across its key business sectors, including...
Skipjack Trading In Manta Hub Sluggish
The price of skipjack in the Manta processing hub is stable, and packers' business with EU buyers is sluggish. Supply continues to be low because of the ongoing veda. Sources said that...
US And Cook Islands To Study Deep-Sea Mining Possibilities
The US recently announced that it will cooperate with the Cook Islands, which has a tuna-rich EEZ, “to advance scientific research and the responsible development of seabed mineral resources.”...
Decades-Old Charlie-Shaped Radio Grabs Attention And Other Social Media Stories
A transistor radio in the shape of StarKist's mascot Charlie was popular in the 1970s, and is back in the spotlight more than five decades later. MSC released a new video on FADs to correct...
Sharp Dip In June WCPO Transshipments
The WCPO purse seine catches in June were low, leading to a 15 percent drop in transshipped volumes via ports in the PNA region. Papua New Guinea's ports had been overseeing the most...
Basque Experimental Bluefin Fattening Project Commences
The bluefin farming pilot project in the Cantabrian Sea has taken off with 50 tuna swimming in the cages, 48 km off the coast of Getaria in the Basque Country, under the scientific supervision...
Serious Olive Oil Spill Injures Worker In Frinsa Factory
A massive olive oil spill took place on Tuesday night in Frinsa’s cannery located in the Xarás industrial estate in Ribeira, Spain. A worker was slightly injured due to the incident, but he is...
US Buyers Responded To Tariff Uncertainty By Increasing Canned Tuna Imports
The fear of extra duties on canned tuna pushed US importers to increase their imports from January to June this year massively. They had already expanded their buying in the first quarter of...