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Venezuelan Crisis Hitting Hard On Ecuador Industry
The impact of economic and industry crisis in Venezuela has rippled out of the nation, and is even hitting Ecuadorian exporters hard. Ecuador’s tuna shipments to the country have suffered a...
Divided Opinions Over Catches During El Niño
Expected catch numbers during the El Niño are dividing opinion amongst local fishermen in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, with some believing the event could improve landings, while others consider...
PNA: A Quota-Based Fisheries System Won’t Work
Without a change to the way its tuna fisheries are managed, the Pacific, according to New Zealand’s Prime Minster, John Key, could put the sustainability of its stocks at significant risk. At...
Euthynnus Isn’t Tuna In Europe
US and EU authorities appear to have a very distinct difference between their views on what’s tuna and what’s not. While in the United States market, Euthynnus Affinis and Auxis Thazard...
Is EU Traceability Becoming A Joke?
In 2002, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) divided a map of the world into different zones, allocating a number to each area; the idea being that these FAO numbers would allow...
Against All Odds, Tuna Bond Holders Paid Today
Despite the odds being stacked against them, holders of a USD 850 million bond issued two years ago by Mozambique state-owned tuna fishing frim, Ematum, will be paid today. This has been...
Explosive Euthynnus Imports Cause Concern For Stocks
Just like several sources from the US have confirmed, it’s allowed and completely legal to import tuna-like species at four percent duty and label them as tuna. However, with purchases of...
Green Dye Used In PS Fishing “Unfair”
An environmental activist group is urging a fishing company to stop putting dye in the water during its tuna fishing trips, as it says it is an unfair practice which forms a “curtain”...
Private Label And Branded Competition Brutal
Competition between brands and private label products appears to be intensifying, with price at the core of the battle. As stated by Alfonso Delgado, News Business Development Director with AC...
Lumar Delists From Stock Exchange, And Changes Name
Lumar Natural Seafood’s impromptu shareholders’ meeting has resulted in the company gaining approval to be delisted from Spain’s Alternative Investment Market (Mercado Alternativo Bursátil...
Low Demand Hurts Vietnamese Export Value
Decreasing demand from end markets, according to tuna exporters in Vietnam, is impacting the value of the country’s tuna product shipments, which are down nearly seven percent on last year....
J/V Brings Strength Back To TUF Stock
With 36.6 million TUF shares traded yesterday, the announcement from the firm of a joint venture (J/V) aiming to target the Middle East market has sent the company’s stock value rising at one...
Tri Marine And PNA: 2016 Seafood Champions?
Two major entities in the tuna industry have been unveiled as finalists in the 2016 Seafood Champion Awards, which seek to recognize individuals and companies for “outstanding leadership” in...
Tri Marine Y PNA: ¿Ganadores Del Seafood Champion Awards 2016?
Dos grandes compañías de la industria pesquera han sido desveladas como finalistas del Seafood Champion Awards 2016, que tiene como objetivo reconocer individuos y compañías por su...
Activists Accuse Taiwanese Longliner Of Illegal Shark Finning
A Taiwanese tuna longliner has been accused of fishing without permission, in waters close to PNG, with more than 75 kilograms of shark fins on board. The “Shuen De Ching No.888” vessel,...
“Fake Tuna” Is Perfectly Legal
Species that some in the industry have branded as “fake tuna” are likely to continue disrupting the US market, as several sources confirm to atuna.com that what is happening is perfectly legal...
El “Atún Falso” Es Totalmente Legal
Parece ser que las especies que han sido etiquetadas como “atún falso” por algunos profesionales de la industria podrán continuar en el mercado estadounidense, debido a que muchas fuentes han...
One Player Controlling 53% Of All US Chunk Light
As the US canned tuna market as a whole is probed by antitrust analysis, first half year 2015 US market research is showing that one company is solely controlling a hefty share of the overall...
Concerns “Pacific Regionalism” Isn’t Enough To Manage Tuna Stocks
Although “Pacific Regionalism” appears to be top of the agenda at this year’s Pacific Island Leaders Forum (PIF), the Director General of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), James Movick,...