A Taiwanese tuna fishing vessel returned to port in Phuket on Tuesday with the body of a woman found floating in Burmese waters, close to the Thai city of Ranong. The body was found by the...
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Greenpeace: EU Expands Tuna Fishing In Pacific Despite Earlier Limit
Global environmental group Greenpeace has expressed disappointment in weak results from the WCPFC meeting in Cairns last week, and say there are “some real areas where things are spiralling...
Philippines Gains New Access To High Seas Pocket 1
Filipino commercial fishermen gained extension for the access to the High Seas Pocket 1, ensuring growth in the country’s fish production and continued revitalization of the tuna...
What Do Pangasius In EU And Canned Tuna In US Have In Common?
Continuous pressure by retail buyers for ever lower import prices, and the need for earning by processors and distributors have seen a reduction in the quality of certain fish products....
Philippines And PNG Ink Tuna Monitoring Agreement
Filipino fishermen in Papua New Guinea have always wanted to expand exports of tuna to the European Union. The effort is somewhat stymied by the absence of certificates of origin required by...
Toyota Tsusho To Ramp Up “Kindai” Farming
Toyota Tsusho plans to more than double its output of farmed bluefin tuna by boosting the survival rate of hatchlings, a move expected to increase supply of the prized delicacy at a time when...
BB’s Anova Acquisition Centered On Tuna Supply Synergies
Bumble Bee Foods has made an official announcement on its acquisition of United States based Anova Foods. Its amalgamation of the two companies is hoping to bring together the...
Pescanova’s Creditors Urged To Accept 75% Debt Cut
Pescanova’s bank creditors are being urged to accept a reduction of up to 75 percent of debt by financial advisor, Deloitte, or the fishing group will be subjected to liquidation. In...
Caribbean Fisheries Authorities To Discuss Use Of FADs
Fisheries authorities in the Caribbean are looking at prospects for the wider use of FADs in the region. Caribbean countries have been exploring their use for several years in order to...
NGO’s Jointly Present Video On Global Overfishing Problem
A powerful video created by European environmental coalition, OCEAN2012, presents the increasing problem of overfishing across the globe. The footage explains that since the start of...
Unexpected Developments Put Thai Union Shares On BUY
Thai Union Frozen Products’ (TUF’s) earnings are being given a boost by the depreciation of the Thai baht in the fourth quarter of this year. The company will benefit from baht weakness and is...
Sysco Buys US Foods
United States based Sysco, global leader in marketing and distributing food products to restaurants and other establishments, has bought long-term competition company, US Foods. Both Sysco and...
USD 7 Million For Manta Tuna Port Improvements
Repairs and improvements to Manta’s tuna port are scheduled to begin in mid-December at the cost of just over USD 7 million. The plans will see strengthening of the Ecuadorian port’s Pier...
Bumble Bee Seafoods Buys Anova USA
According to the website seafax.com, Bumble Bee Foods, owner of one of the United States big three tuna brands, has acquired US based Anova Foods. With leading US brand, Bumble Bee tuna under...
Inflatable Jackets Mandatory For Commercial Fishermen
Inflatable lifejackets will be provided to small (two-three man) New Zealand commercial tuna operations during the albacore tuna season. The safety jackets will be given away as long as...
WCPFC Cut Juvenile Bluefin Catch By 15 Percent
The WCPFC made the decision on Friday to reduce the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna in the western Pacific in 2014 by 15 percent or more from the 2002-2004 average. Member States will see their...
9 Indian Tuna Fishermen Go Missing At Sea
Nine tuna fishermen from Kasimedu fishing harbor in India have been reported missing after the crew of other fishing vessels returned and said their boat had not been sighted since Tuesday. It...
WCPFC Bans Silky Shark Fishing In Pacific
The WCPFC has agreed to important conservation methods for threatened shark species as part of last week’s annual Commission meeting in Cairns, Australia. One of the major outcomes of the...
Sustainable Seafood One Of 10 Hottest Restaurant Trends
Sustainable seafood has ranked in at number nine as “What’s Hot In 2014” as part of a National survey in the United States. The National Restaurant Association (NRA) surveyed nearly 1,300 of...
“Kindai” Bluefin Restaurant Opens In Tokyo
The world’s second largest restaurant specializing in 100 percent farmed bluefin tuna (different from wild caught bluefin which is only fattened in farms) opened earlier this week in Tokyo. At...