An ongoing legal battle is currently taking place in Peru between the Mexican tuna fishing company Grupomar and the Peruvian firm CASAMAR. The clash has been going on for more than three years...
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Microplastics In Canned Tuna Mainly Due To Water In Canning Process
A group of scientists has found microplastics (MPs) in commercially canned tuna in analyzed samples in Ecuador. Products in brine were found to have more polymers than items in oil but this is...
Satlink Helping Maldives Reduce Ghost Gear
Spanish satellite buoy technology company Satlink has teamed up with two international organizations to establish a program for the collection and recycling of abandoned, lost, or discarded...
Boat Owners Give SKJ1.8:BKK A Big Push Upwards, No Relief In Sight
The fallout from the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war has been massive and the global tuna sector like many other industries has been feeling the impact. The Bangkok whole round frozen skipjack...
Japanese Longliner On Fire, Four Crew Members Missing
A Japanese-flagged tuna longliner caught fire 185 kilometers southeast off the coast of the island of Tanegashima on March 21. The vessel, ‘Yujinmaru No. 51’, had a crew of eight fishermen on...
WCPO Catches Declined In February After Slight Recovery
In the WCPO waters, purse seine captains caught less tuna in February. This was partly due to slightly less fishing effort deployed during this time, although, skipjack and yellowfin daily...
Sovereign Guarantee Of 11.3 Million EUR For Tuna Cannery In Angola
The President of Angola, João Lourenço, has approved a state guarantee loan so that the company Alva Fishing can build a canned tuna processing plant in the country. The project was...
Ripple Effect Of Diesel Shortage Hits Tuna Sector
The war in Eastern Europe has thrown global commodity markets into turmoil and crude oil and other refined products such as diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, LPG, and biofuels have all been strongly...
Spanish Consumers Find Brands Less Important
Spaniards care very much about the appearance of their tuna and seafood products compared to where it was produced or caught. The brand is also not an influential choice for them, according to...
In Memory Of Manuel Ramirez – Mr. Canned Food
The canned tuna industry has lost an iconic entrepreneur, Manuel Guerreiro Ramirez, who passed away at the age of 80 on March 8. Since he was 21 years old, he had a leading position at...
ISSF: Global Tuna Supply Shrank By 10 Percent In 2020
Global catches of tuna have kept increasing in recent years reaching record-breaking volumes. However, 2020 represented a year-on-year decrease although the level was still among the all-time...
Sicily Wants To Preserve Bluefin ‘Tonnare’
In Sicily, Italy, a new governmental initiative was recently launched to promote the dissemination, especially among young people, of knowledge about tuna and the many “Tonnare” (Italian...
EU Processors Increased 26 Percent Biz In Africa
EU canned tuna processors increased their exports to African nations by about one-third last year, especially nearly doubling their direct shipments to Morocco. All four major tuna processing...
Vast Industrial Fishing Activity In “Blue Hole” High Seas
Greenpeace has said that there is a vast fleet of industrial fishing vessels plundering in the high seas of the South Atlantic. It has strongly urged the UN along with world governments to...
ISSF: Healthy Tuna Stocks On The Decline
The level of healthy tuna stocks around the world is dropping according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Tuna species in the biggest catching area, the WCPO,...
Truck Drivers’ Strike Hits Spanish Tuna Production
Last Thursday, Spanish canner Calvo announced that starting Monday it will temporarily stop its production because the ongoing transport strike has cut the supply needed to keep operations...
Albo And Frinsa Expand Processing In Vigo
Spanish tuna processors Albo and Frinsa are expanding their canning facilities and have acquired space in the Dry Port of Salvaterra, 35 kilometers from Vigo. Albo bought 63,000 square meters...
RFMOs Need Clear Procedures Over VMS Malfunction
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation recently published a report identifying the vessel monitoring systems (VMS) used by tuna and other seafood RFMOs. The document also explores...
Seafood Watch Adds IO Yellowfin To Red List
The American-based program Seafood Watch has added yellowfin from the Indian Ocean (IO) among its red-listed species. Recently, at the Boston Seafood Expo, the Maldivian Minister of Fisheries,...
Spain Loses 10 Percent Of Canned Tuna Exports In 2021
Canned tuna deliveries within the European region and to international markets fell overall in 2021, pulled along in the wake of Spain’s drop of 10 percent in overall shipments that year. EU...