SolTuna canned tuna brand from the Solomon Islands is expanding in the UAE. Since 2020, it has a deal with Abu Dhabi-based Talent SeaFoods Trading. The distributor recently...
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Despite EPO Veda, Manta Skipjack Is Holding Steady
Skipjack trading at the Manta port continues at record-high levels. Despite canners' efforts to reduce the price, the value per ton of fish has remained the same since last month. This is...
Will WCPFC Agree On Harvest Strategy For Skipjack And Yellowfin?
This weekend, the WCPFC's annual meeting starts in Vietnam. All eyes are on the event with the biggest topics on the table for debate -- harvest strategy and harvest control rules (HCRs) for...
How Record Yellowfin Catches Saved 2021 For WCPO Seiners
The world's largest and most productive tuna fishing ground, the WCPO, accounted for 54 percent of global captures (4.9 million tons) last year. In 2021, purse seiners experienced a fall in...
NGOs Demand Improved Labor Standards For Crews In WCPO
A group of WCPFC observer NGOs has given a joint statement regarding implementing measures to improve the working conditions of fishers. Crew safety is a major topic of discussion in the RFMO...
FCF Seiner Cert Bigeye Scope Receives Passing Score
The certification assessment body, SCS Global, has given a passing grade for bigeye for client group Western Pacific Sustainable Tuna Alliance (WPSTA) in its Public Comment Draft Report...
Contrary To IATTC Scientists, WWF Persists EPO Skipjack Is Not Green
WWF Europe has conducted a new fishery assessment for skipjack in the EPO. The initiative came on the heels of the results of the IATTC stock assessment, which showed that the species is...
New Tuna Mural In Galician Port Town Upsets Locals
City council officials at the Galician port town of Burela are being criticised over a new mural of an unveiled scaffolding at a neighbourhood near Eijo Garay Street. Remodelling is being...
Thai Union’s Sealect Tuna Brand Strengthens In Domestic Market
Thai Union is gaining an increasingly large domestic market share with its Sealect tuna brand. It joins a group of processors that initially focused on exports but over the last decades...
Tuvalu – The Emerging Supplier For Thai Canners
This year, Tuvalu-flagged purse seiners managed to massively expand their tuna trade with Thai packers. This tiny Pacific Island nation has become the emerging supplier of skipjack to the...
TU Assesses IO Longliners At Sea For Crew Welfare
Thai Union (TU) is leaving no stone unturned to ensure safe working and welfare conditions for crews on board longline vessels in the Indian Ocean. The company partnered with MRAG to...
ICCAT Adopting Harvest Strategy For Vulnerable Tuna Stocks
After nine days of intense negotiations, ICCAT has settled on several measures including adopting a management procedure for Atlantic bluefin stocks. Discussions over harvest strategies and...
New Device Helps To Reduce Longline Shark & Ray Bycatch
New technology developed by Fishtek Marine, ‘SharkGuard’, will help reduce blue shark and pelagic ray bycatch in longline fisheries without impacting the targeted tunas. The device...
Japan Airlines Serves Plant-Based Tuna In First Class
Japan’s second-largest air service, Japan Airlines, is serving BettaF!sh plant-based tuna in a wrap to first- and business-class passengers on flights between Tokyo and London. The...
Pacific Islands Working Hard To Get Foothold In China
China is looking towards increasing its business dealings with tuna-rich Pacific Island nations and a Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) is saying that there is always a willingness by...
Nauru Second-Largest Supplier Of WR To Thai Canners
Processors in Thailand maintained their buying of frozen whole round tuna in the first nine months of this year. The total trade amounted to a whopping USD 1.03 billion, mainly driven by...
NFI President & US Seafood Pioneer John Connelly Has Passed Away
John Connelly, former President of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and a pioneer in the American seafood trade for over twenty years, has passed away at the age of sixty-one....
Food Truck To Serve AENOR-Labelled Free Tuna To Madrileños
OPAGAC has come up with a novel marketing initiative with its “APR Takes the Sea to Madrid” event. A bus carrying the responsibly sourced tuna will be parked at Plaza de Felip II in...
Readers: GDST Implementation Not Likely Soon
After Pacifical was the first seafood company in the world to pass the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST’s) Capability Test, Atuna asked its readers their opinion on how...
Mazatlan Fishers Demand Revamp Of Fishing Sector
The fishing sector in Mazatlan, Mexico, is going through one of its darkest times. Catches have been dipping since the beginning of this year, and reportedly, tuna and...