The Portuguese autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores entered into a new agreement recently which allows their vessels to catch 110 tons of bigeye (per boat) annually. This was published in...
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Orthongel Announces New French AFNOR Responsible Fishing Standard
Orthongel, the group representing the French tuna seiner fleet, in collaboration with the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), has published a new responsible fishing standard....
600-Pound Tuna Can Reeled In From Ocean & Other Social Media Stories
A US news site took a hilarious dig at the annual Toyosu bluefin auction market. An Italian chef's tuna recipe has a lot of fans on Instagram. US content creator urged fans to think big this...
Thai Canners Cut Back On Yellowfin Whole Round Imports In Q1-Q3
Thai processors reduced their overall yellowfin whole rounds buying from January to September 2024 despite some major producers increasing their business. The average value of the raw material...
Malaysia’s Slow Growing Tuna Sector Mainly Boasts Of Neritic Tuna Landings
Malaysian-flagged vessels mainly catch neritic tuna than oceanic tuna in the Indian Ocean. This fleet is small compared to its Southeast Asian counterparts. Small purse seiners and trawlers...
Chris Lischewski To Head US Golding Farm Foods
Chris Lischewski, former CEO of Bumble Bee Seafoods, has been appointed as President of Golding Farm Foods. Established in 1972 in North Carolina, the company offers a variety of consumer and...
EU’s New Rule On Listeria In Ready-Made Foods Upsets Producers
The European Commission has updated its rules on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods, putting the onus on producers who need to ensure that their products are not contaminated...
Spanish Processors Imported 5-Year High Pre-Cooked Loins Volumes
Spanish processors increased their imports of frozen pre-cooked loins from January to September 2024. Many of the major non-EU suppliers managed to increase their business in this market. From...
Mystery Over Missing Fishers From Colombian Seiner ‘Patricia Lynn’ Continues
The lack of information around the Colombian-flagged seiner 'Patricia Lynn' which sunk on December 21 is putting government officials on a tough spot. The Ecuadorian Navy has not been able to...
Balfegó All Set To Open Doors Of New Tuna Plant
Spanish bluefin company Grupo Balfegó will open a new plant next month in Tarragona to replace the one destroyed in the 2018 fire. Company executives announced that the factory would be three...
Ricardo Fuentes’ New Freezing Vessel Begins Full-Fledged Operations
Spanish bluefin company Ricardo Fuentes-owned ultra-low temperature (ULT) vessel ‘Madre Antonia’ made its first call at the port in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria earlier this week. The vessel...
MIMRA & PIT Claim To Make Very Good Biz From US Walmart Contract
Glen Joseph, Director of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) recently said that the volume of tuna provided through the Pacific Islands Tuna (PIT) has increased...
Anfaco Demands Higher ATQ Loins For EU Canners
Frozen pre-cooked tuna loins that can be imported duty-free into the EU under the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) were once again snapped in their initial allocation by the European Commission...
Spaniards Increased Canned Tuna Imports From OutsideThe Bloc
Spanish brands, retailers, and traders continued to buy more canned tuna in the first nine months of 2024. Purchases from processors outside the EU increased, whereas those from within the...
Which EU Nation Spent The Most On Initial Skipjack Landings?
The initial price of landed skipjack in France increased from January to September 2024, but dropped in Portugal and Spain compared to the same period the year before. However, Spaniards paid...
British Navy Arrests Illegal Indian Tuna Fishers
The British Navy detained 10 Indian tuna fishermen near Diego Garcia Island, the largest archipelago of Chagos, in the Indian Ocean during the wee hours of Monday. The fishers, who hail from...
Vegetable Oil Prices Drove FAO Food Price Index In 2024
Global food commodity prices rose in the second half of 2024, mainly driven by the strong increase in vegetable oil prices. This was indeed bad news for canned tuna producers who had to pay...
Are Basque Tuna Pole-And-Liners Victims Of EU-Senegal Dispute?
The termination of the EU-Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) has led to the fate of four Basque-based pole-and-liners, owned by Dakartuna, hanging in the balance. The...
US Tuna Sector Breathes Sigh Of Relief As Dockworker Strike Ends
US dockworkers across major ports from Maine to Texas, who have been on strike since last October, will fully resume operations after the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and...
Investigation Reveals Shocking Spanish Illegal Bluefin Activities
The Spanish Civil Guard nabbed a group that was long engaged in illegal bluefin fishing. Eight people who operated in the port city of Malaga are now being questioned after officials carried...