The ongoing battle between Spanish tuna exporters and Italian health officials is costing Spain’s tuna exporting sector a lot of money. This month has seen yet another notification to the EU...
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Government Measures Proposed To Battle Fiji Albacore Crisis
Fiji’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests, Lieutenant Colonel Inia Seruiratu says that the country’s government is now looking for ways to resolve the current crisis faced by the...
TUNABAL Buoy Technology Helps Reduce Juvenile Catch
The increased use of FADs and higher efficiencies in the catches of tuna purse can be partly attributed to the use of better and more advanced sonar buoys, which send their information via...
ISSF Needs Year To Decide On Blacklisting Vessel
The ISSF has pushed back the final decision on its possible blacklisting of a vessel accused of IUU fishing. The organizations says the investigation into IUU fishing allegations of a Dongwon...
Piriou Loses Order Of 2 CFTO Seiners To Murueta
Shipyard Piriou in France has lost out on an order for the construction of two French tuna purse seiners. Instead, the contract, from French tuna firm, Campagnie Francaise du Thon Oceanique...
French Fleet Launches New Observer Scheme With African Nations
A new scheme that is likely to mean 100 percent observer coverage for the French tuna fleet in the Atlantic Ocean will see French and African officials supervising the country’s purse seiners....
Gabon Fishing Deal For 27 EU Seiners Under Negotiation
The European Union Fisheries Committee is to meet this week to discuss a draft recommendation on a potential deal between the EU and Gabon. The agreement, if signed, would benefit 27 EU tuna...
Albacore Crisis Can Cause Food Dilemma In Fiji
The albacore tuna fishing crisis in Fiji is likely to cause drastic problems for food supply in the country. The scaling down of the domestic tuna fleet could see a lack of up to 4/5,000 tons...
Key Meetings In Brussels On Zero Duty Thai Tuna
Meetings taking place this week in Brussels will see the EU Fisheries Committee discuss various topics in the tuna industry, one of which is expected to be the potential for a free trade...
Echebastar Launches Super Seiner “Izaro”
Construction has been completed on the Izaro super seiner, owned by the Spanish Echebastar Group. The USD 39 million and 1,900 ton tuna purse seiner has been built at the Zamakona shipyard in...
Costa Rica Connects Price Of Licenses To Landing Locally
The charging or not charging of tuna catch tax to foreign vessels is dividing Costa Rican boat owners. Currently, tax is eliminated when selling the catch to national companies, but it has...
PAFCO Could Take A Hit From Albacore Scale-Back
The scaling back of the albacore tuna fishing fleet in Fiji is likely to have a dramatic impact on Pacific Fishing Company Limited (PAFCO), a major tuna cannery in Fiji and the Pacific. The...
NFI: Misinformation Spread On Marine Mammals By NRDC
Tuna for Tomorrow, a campaign to combat misinformation on sustainable stocks of tuna fished by America’s leading canned tuna brands has slated a recent CNN post on the killing of marine...
Will 2014 Witness Last Year’s Peaked Skipjack Prices? What Did You Think?
Opinion was split this time around on our atuna.com homepage poll. Asking “Will 2014 skipjack prices recover to 2013 peak levels?” divided our voters, leaving a nearly 50/50 result. Looking to...
American Samoa Community Involved In “Buy American” Tuna
Former American Samoa Governor, Togiola Tulafono, believes that, in the current battle between US tuna canneries on a move to amend the Buy American provision so that canned and pouched tuna...
EU Fisheries Policy: “We Only Fish Within Scientifically Safe Margins”
Europe has managed to radically change its fisheries policy and make it more sustainable, the relevant Commissioner Maria Damanaki told the European Parliament Friday. Damanaki said that...
Future Of Industry Topic Of INFOFISH – Tuna 2014
The future sustainability of the global tuna industry will be at the core of this year’s INFOFISH-TUNA 2014 Conference, the largest gathering of tuna industry players from all over the world....
Lischewski Steps Down, O’Scannlain New NFI Chairman
As Chris Lischewski, CEO of Bumble Bee, steps down as Chairman of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), Fortune Fish & Gourmet President and CEO, Sean O’Scannlain steps up to the plate...
Rating Agency: Price Fall Positive For Thai Union
The company and senior debenture rating of Thai Union Frozen Products Plc (TUF) has been rated by TRIS Rating at “AA-“, while the outlook for the firm has been regarded as “stable”. The rating...
Fiji’s Solander Scales Down Albacore Operations
Solander is one of two major Fiji fishing companies that have been forced to shut down the majority of their operations. Mainly catching albacore tuna, the company within the albacore price...