In the first eight months of 2014, volumes of Spanish canned seafood exports rose 2.74 percent compared to the same period last year. However, the value of these exports decreased by 4.53...
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Philippine Islamic Region Requires Licenses For Tuna Seiners
The Islamic Bangsamoro regional government in the Philippines is stipulating that as well as local government permits needed for its waters, commercial tuna purse seine operators will have to...
Fair Trade Enters Tuna Segment With Anova USA
Anova Foods LLC will be marketing Indonesian caught yellowfin tuna in the US, under the first Fair Trade USA seafood certification. Four Indonesian handline yellowfin tuna fisher associations...
China Tuna Industry IPO A Lesson For Investors In China?
As the China Tuna Industry Group has been hit with a “downfall” and could try again for an IPO, Gregory Sichenzia, a founding partner of securities law firm, Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference,...
Vietnam Tuna Exports Decline In 97 Markets
From January to September this year, Vietnamese global tuna exports have seen a decrease in value by 13 percent from the same period the previous year, partly due to a reduction in the number...
“John West WWF Cooperation Is Green Spin”
The battle is raging in the UK market between Greenpeace and John West, to a lesser extent than with Princes. Now we seem to enter a new episode with the UK newspaper, The Guardian, reporting...
Investors Cautioned On Risks Of Buying Bumble Bee
Last week Greenpeace released a risk alert publication to companies intent on bidding for Bumble Bee Foods, which has been up for auction at USD 1.5 billion since July. In response, Bumble Bee...
Athletic Star To Promote San Marino New Tuna Products
San Marino, a Philippines based canned tuna brand owned by CDO Foodsphere Inc., has recently released a commercial promoting its new range of ‘easy-open’ canned tuna flakes. The commercial is...
Japanese To Invest In New Vietnam Cannery
Plans to build a new tuna processing plant in Vietnam were initiated last week as the Japanese firm Hokugan Co., based in Okinawa, Japan, met in Binh Dinh, with the south-central province...
Peru Starts Auction Of Tuna Fishing Rights
Peruvian flagged vessels will be publicly competing for a share in the 2,423.27 cubic meters of national tuna fishing rights to be sold by Peru’s Ministry of Production, reports the Gestión....
Thai Union Completes King Oscar & MerAlliance Deals
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF), one of the world’s largest tuna processors, has today confirmed the completion of its most recent acquisitions, King Oscar, the leading premium canned sardine...
Collision Two Seiners In Samoa Investigated
A Tri Marine purse seiner, ‘Capt. Vincent Gann’, recently collided with another purse seiner, the ‘Ocean Challenger’, owned by the South Pacific Tuna Corporation, in the harbor of Pago Pago,...
Spanish Canners Intensify Ties In South America
The Spanish National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Seafood (ANFACO) is looking to expand its partnership with Brazil and Peru-based industry organizations and authorities; three big...
International Pole & Line Fishermen Exchange Successful
An educational partnership between pole and line fisheries in the Maldives and the US North Pacific has now come to a successful end as trainee fishers, having met in August, have now...
Mom Tells Court: Imprisoned Son Bashed With Tuna Can
After pleading guilty in September last year to the manufacturing of 19.2 kilograms of ecstasy, Adam Freeman has, according to his mother, been bashed in the head with a can of tuna in jail....
Sealord: Consumer Unwilling To Pay Premium For MSC Fad-Free
Sealord has recently confirmed it has become a 100 percent FAD-free sourcing tuna production company, according to an atuna.com interview with Sealord’s Marketing General Manager in New...
National Tuna Congress To Be Held In Spain
Tuna industry players will be meeting in Madrid, Spain, on November 18th for the country’s Second National Tuna Congress, at which they will discuss and debate current situations in the tuna...
Is ‘Unreporting’ As Bad As Illegal Fishing?
One thing that seems to be turning heads in the industry is the tackle against IUU fishing, which is considered to be one of factors leading to depletion of tuna stocks and imbalance in the...
EU Funds For WCPFC To Focus On Tuna Transshipment Activities
Tuna transshipment activities in the WCPO will be one of the main focuses of beneficiary projects from a EUR 650,000 funding from the European Union. The EU extra assistance package is to go...
Date Set For 66th Annual California Tuna Conference
The Western Fishboat Owners Association (WFOA) has announced the date for the 66th Annual Tuna Conferenceon Tunas and Billfish, which will be hosted at the University of California, Los...