In the view of one environmental NGO, the Echebastar free-school purse seine tuna fishery should not be gaining MSC certification at all. Speaking to Daniel Suddaby, Senior Tuna Manager at...
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TUF Pleases Shareholders With Impressive 2014 Profits
Charging ahead, Thai Union has almost doubled its annual net profit result, with bullish sales revenue and share earnings leading the way. Announcing its financial result for full year 2014,...
Somali Pirates Release Longest Held Hostages
After five years held in captivity by Somali pirates, four Thai tuna fishermen have finally been released. The UN has said that this was the longest captivity period conducted by Somali...
Newspaper Buyers Get Free Tuna Pouch
Spain’s leading tuna brand and one of the top read national newspapers have teamed up to promote the brand’s ‘Open & Ready’ products to hundreds of thousands of readers, by giving away a...
The Easiest Way To Avoid IUU Products?
As IUU fishing continues to cast a dark shadow over the tuna industry, is there one simple way for retailers and brands to avoid illegal, unreported and unregulated fishery products from...
2 Costa Ricans Rescued At Sea By Mexican Seiner
Two shipwrecked Costa Rican fishermen were rescued at sea by a Mexican tuna vessel last week and are still offshore being cared for aboard the ship. Two Costa Rican brothers were rescued by...
Korea Hopeful After Talks With EU On IUU Yellow Card
South Korea, deemed by the EU a preliminary IUU fishing nation in 2013, is hopeful to be removed from the Union’s list of illegal fishing nations after bilateral talks in Seoul, Korea, saw...
Lessons learned from implementing three, large-scale tuna tagging programmes in the western and central Pacific Ocean
Authors: Bruno Leroy, Simon Nicol, Antony Lewis, John Hampton, Dale Kolody, Sylvain Caillot, Simon Hoyle Short abstract: Tuna tagging experiments have been used to monitor the tuna...
Echebastar Splits MSC Target, Puts Free School First
One of the largest fleets in the Indian Ocean has changed its plans to obtain MSC sustainability certification for 40,000 tons of its catch, as the short term target of its assessment takes a...
Can The Chansiri Family Run A Football Club As Good As TUF?
In the next few days, Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri will have completed the purchase of UK-based football club Sheffield Wednesday. But will Chansiri be capable of hauling the club to...
Thai Union Looking To Sell 1.2 Billion New Shares
Last Friday, the world’s largest tuna processor, Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) announced plans to raise further share value by offering a whopping 1.2 billion new company shares on the...
Tied-Up Taiwanese Seiner Owner Outraged – Pleads Not Guilty
The Taiwanese tuna vessel owners allegedly responsible for illegal fishing in Marshall Islands waters, as previously reported on atuna.com, have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges and have...
Tuna Seiner Captain Raises The Alarm On FADs
A first-hand account of FAD-fishing effort and issues has been given to atuna.com in an open letter from a whistleblower source. This tuna seiner captain, of whom atuna.com knows and has...
The Top 5 Tuna Raw Material Exporters To Thailand
Thailand is one of the largest processors of canned tuna in the world, however it doesn’t do a significant amount of fishing, and almost all the tuna it processes is imported from nations...
Why Keep Fishing Skipjack At A Loss?
In just one fishing day some seiner owners are currently seeing up to USD 34,000 fall from their pockets. What could happen if prices slip even further? A continued weakening of the Bangkok...
Check Out This Tuna School Swimming At Half Speed
We’ve added a new amazing video to our Tuna Fishing Videos page showing a school of southern bluefin tuna following and weaving fishing lures on the surface. The great thing about this video...
Pacifical Applauds Call To Combat FAD-Free Fraud
As issues of self-certification surface through the voices of CEPESCA and Spanish members of European Parliament, Pacifical Director, Maurice Brownjohn praises the parties for their active...
Prime Minister Pushes For Origin Labeling After Tuna “Poisoning”
Following reports of food poisoning from imported Thai tuna, Australia’s Prime Minister has ordered a review of food-labeling laws to give consumers a better insight into country of origin...
Isabel CEO’s Best Travel Tips For Tuna Businessmen
For most in this industry a significant amount of time is spent travelling from one place to another for business. So we asked the head of one of Spain’s largest tuna processors what top three...
Code For Responsible Fishing For Spanish Seiner Fleet
The implementation of a code of good fishing practice for Spanish tuna purse seine fleets launched months ago has now been assessed by a review committee and recommendations for a Strategic...