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Skyrocketing Salt Price A Headache For Purse Seiner Operators
The global tuna purse seine fleet has been plagued by numerous challenges this year with the number one issue being fuel cost. The value of industrial salt, a major commodity used in...
Single-Serve Tuna Cans John West’s Answer To Food Waste?
John West has added three products to its product range. With these smaller-sized cans, the brand wants to make itself more relevant to smaller households, especially given the growing...
150 Seafood Companies Call For Measures To Reduce Deaths In Fishing Sector
Five seafood organizations have teamed up to support worldwide efforts to improve fishers' safety. Fishing is considered one of the most dangerous occupations and understanding the drivers...
Bumble Bee: Greenpeace Report Inaccurate But Will Investigate Allegations
Bumble Bee Seafood has broken its silence and has said that it is carefully reviewing allegations about its supply chain, a week after Greenpeace published a condemning report on the US tuna...
Is The TunaCoin Digital Currency A Fishy Crypto?
There is a new cryptocurrency circulating called TunaCoin and a deep dive into this digital asset shows an alarming lack of transparency, something that is not uncommon with cryptos. Unlike...
President Biden Will Host Pacific Tuna Emirates
President Joe Biden will host the first-ever US-Pacific Island Country Summit, which will be held in Washington D.C. on September 28 and 29. Many of the nations are part of the PNA with the...
SKJ1.8:BKK Hovering Around Same Level
The price of whole round frozen skipjack has not budged with Thai tuna processors holding back their purchasing of raw material. SKJ1.8:BKK is hovering at the same level for the...
Maldives Reduces License Fees For Pole & Line Fishers
The Maldives has introduced new regulations including a reduction of annual fees of fishing licenses for pole and line skipjack and yellowfin fishers. The adjusted scale has been simplified...
Reuse Project’s Catch: 18 Tons Fishing Nets From Spanish Coastal Waters
Spanish boat owners' organization, Cepesca, has removed 18 tons of fishing nets from the sea in eight months. Its Reduse-II (Red is Spanish for net) project was carried out in eight ports...
Study: Consumers Can Trust MSC Fisheries Are Within Sustainable Limits
The latest research shows that consumers can have confidence that seafood products carrying the MSC blue label indeed come from fisheries that are well-managed with stocks that are not...
South China Sea Skipjack Mostly Sustainably Fished
More than 100 scientists and experts gathered last Friday in Manila for the 1st Common Fisheries Resource Analysis (1st CFRA)to discuss the status of skipjack, a key species in the South...
Bluefin Sculpture Named Atuna
One of the tuna sculptures exhibited in the Spanish tuna city, Isla Cristina, is named Atuna. The other 11 sculptures carry the names of ancient Greek gods like Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, and...
Loose Screw In Cannery Creates Large-Scale Fire Alert
Locals of Mazatlan in Mexico observed mysterious smoke on September 1 and called the emergency number as they thought there was a fire. The Voluntary Fire Department and Civil Protection team...
Dogs Find USD 82 Million Of Cocaine In Tuna Container
Security at the port of Guayaquil in Ecuador has again been breached by smugglers trying to traffic cocaine in containers of canned tuna destined for the UK. A load of the illicit substance...
Huge Fines Introduced To Stop IUU In Maldives
Fines of up to USD 26,000 (MVR 400,654) are to be issued to those catching, processing, and selling protected marine species in the Maldives. Also, penalties will be handed out for unlicensed...
New Study Says Marine Stocks In MSC Fisheries More Abundant
A new study published on Thursday in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, has reported that target stocks of MSC-certified fisheries are more consistently fished within...
Thai Canned Tuna Trade Declining In Asia
Thai processors are losing trade with markets in Asia as H1 2022 represented the lowest shipped volumes in a half-year period for some time. Their foothold in Saudi Arabia has been decreasing...
Sunflower Prices Normalizing While Soy & Olive Oils Rise
Canned tuna processors can sigh in relief now that the price of sunflower oil is declining and supply is again flowing from Ukraine. The value of soy oil rebounded slightly in August, while...
Nirsa Paints Neighborhood Stores Blue With REAL Billboard
With its “Pintura Real” plan, Ecuadorian tuna processor NIRSA has painted 622 neighborhood stores nationwide in the Real brand's blue color. Around 75 percent of these small local stores are...