During the recently concluded IATTC annual meeting, Ecuador, with the EPO's largest seiner fleet, submitted a revised FAD retrieval proposal that urged the Commission to consider...
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Zhejiang Ocean Family’s Third IPO ‘Terminated’
The IPO status of Zhejiang Ocean Family was changed to ‘terminated’ in the Shanghai Stock Exchange on August 14. The company and its sponsor withdrew their third IPO attempt that was announced...
AI & Machine Learning Can Revolutionize Tuna Sorting
A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a study to look into the morphological characteristics (form, shape, or structure) of three tuna species – bigeye, yellowfin, and albacore. They...
Poll: Should Ecuadorian Tuna Processors Fear For Their Shipments
Ecuador is plagued by violence and assassinations by drug trafficking gangs. The murder of presidential candidate and popular drug crime fighter Fernando Villavicencio on August 9 was the...
Lagging Recovery IO Skipjack Catch Makes Industry Nervous, Price Remains Stable
Indian Ocean fleets are experiencing persistently low catches and yearned for a recovery in July but that did not materialize, making the tuna industry nervous. The skipjack price remained...
Australian Fishing Group Awaits First Ever Longliner
The Pelamis Group is gearing up to welcome its first tuna longliner to its fishing fleet. The ‘FV Southern Wind,’ built by the Cardama Shipyard in Vigo, will arrive in Australia in October,...
Strong Domestic Demand Pushes Century Pacific Half-Year Turnover
Philippines-based Century Pacific Food Inc's (CNPF) first half-year revenue rose by eight percent year on year as sales of its branded canned tuna and other foods improved in the domestic...
Solomon Islands Exponentially Increases WR exports To Thai Canneries
The import of frozen whole rounds to Thailand dropped in the first half of this year due to low WCPO catches and lack of demand for raw materials by canneries. Indonesia was Thailand’s top...
IATTC Adopts Harvest Control Rules for All Tropical Tuna
The IATTC annual meeting closed on Friday. It adopted harvest control rules (HCRs) for all tropical tunas and the desired harvest strategy (HS) for North Pacific albacore. Good progress was...
Marshall Islands Gets International Recognition For Efforts To Curb IUU Fishing
Marshall Islands, with one of the busiest tuna transshipment ports, was recently recognized for its work to prevent illegal fishing. The International Fisheries Monitoring, Control, and...
Grupo Ricardo Fuentes Takes New Ultra-Low Freezing Carrier Into Use
The Spanish bluefin farming company Grupo Ricardo Fuentes purchased an ultra-low-temperature vessel, 'Princesa Guayarmina.' The carrier adds 1,300 tons of processing and storage...
Readers: Proposed Tinplate Tariff Makes US Canned Tuna Production Non-Competitive
The US government is considering a 300 percent tax hike on imported tinplate steel used for the manufacturing of tuna cans. A vast majority of Atuna’s readers think this proposed tariff will...
Grupo Calvo Bids Adieu To Its Only Spanish Flagged Seiner
The Spanish tuna company Grupo Calvo sold purse seiner 'Montemaior', its only vessel flagged to Spain. Albino Morán Shipbrokers, a company involved in the sale and purchase of fishing...
Ecuador In State of Emergency After Murder Of Presidential Candidate
Ecuador's President, Guillermo Lasso, declared a two-month state of emergency after presidential candidate and popular drug crime fighter, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated on Wednesday...
Shark Conservation & Bio FADs Big Concern For IATTC Members
Biodegradable FADs and reducing shark bycatch were some of the topics discussed during the ongoing IATTC annual meeting. On August 10, an EU proposal on biodegradable drifting FADs was revised...
Maldives Top Supplier Of Skipjack WR To Bangkok Canneries In H1
Frozen skipjack volumes imported by Thai producers contracted by 14 percent in the first half of the year. While many major seiner fleets' deliveries saw a massive decline, the...
‘Operation Nasse’ Puts A Stop To Multiple IUU Fishing Incidents In WCPO
For the past eight years, IUU fishing activities in the tuna-rich Pacific Ocean have been closely monitored by New Zealand, Australia, and France through ‘Operation Nasse’. When authorities...
Philippine Tuna Congress Focuses On Sustainability And Monitoring
The Philippine tuna industry is gearing up for the national tuna congress, an annual event that brings together stakeholders from the sector. The 23rd Socsksargen Federation of Fishing...
Turkey High Hopes For 2023 As Bluefin H1 Exports Hit 40 Mln
Turkey boosted its tuna exports from USD 23 million to a whopping USD 40 million, year on year, in the first half of 2023. The country has bluefin farms for which the baby tuna are...
Lower Skipjack Catches Pushed Down WR Tuna Supply To Thailand In H1
A sharp fall in skipjack whole rounds weakened the overall supply of raw material to canneries in Thailand in the first half of 2023. It was propelled by low volumes of tuna catches from major...