Zunibal, the Spanish company specializing in the development of technological solutions for tuna fishing, has partnered with Nazca Capital after the latter invested in the firm’s ambitious...
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EPO Seiners Catching Less Skipjack, But FAD-Yellowfin Soars In H1
Tuna catches in the EPO have not been staying at last year's extraordinarily high levels. Instead, during the first six months of 2021, they have dropped to almost the same level as...
Jealsa Battling Over Toxic Waste’s Origin
Legal allegations against Jealsa Rianxeira for discharging toxic wastes from its Boiro cannery into the Ria de Arousa sanctuary for the...
US-Based Brand Claims First Fair Trade Canned Chunk Light In The Country
The American canned tuna brand Mind Fish has announced the introduction of the first Fair Trade Certified Canned Tuna in the US. The product contains Chunk Light tuna in spring water or olive...
Kenya Will Pay Debt To Reinstall Vessel Surveillance In Its EEZ
The government of the Indian Ocean (IO) coastal nation of Kenya has announced that it will be paying its debt with Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) this week to reinstate the Vessel...
Fiji MSC Association Surprised To See Vessel Blacklisted By The US
The Fiji Fishing Industry Association MSC Group has expressed its surprise that one of its member’s longliners was blacklisted by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) due to forced labor...
Pacific Islands Surveillance Operation Finds No IUU Violations
Today, the 10-day Operation Island Chief, a Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)-led surveillance program was successfully completed. The large operation is conducted annually in a...
Vietnam Tuna Plants Face Production Shut Down Or Disruption Due To COVID-19
Vietnam's tuna and seafood industry is currently being hard-hit by a wave of COVID-19 cases, which have led authorities to impose lockdown measures in several regions of the country....
Canadians Being Served Cheap Fish As Expensive Albacore
The problem of misrepresenting tuna and other seafood in restaurants and grocery stores across Canada persists. This is what Oceana Canada’s latest fraud investigation revealed. All albacore...
Is The MSC’s Objection Process Doing Its Job?
In the last couple of days, Atuna has been reporting about stakeholders' positions regarding the MSC objection process and the fact that only a handful of fisheries are put through it even if...
“A Bowl Of Tuna”, An Amazing Artistic Exhibition
A unique tuna exhibition is taking place this month at the CIT-Garum Technology Centre for the Fishing Industry in the Spanish coastal city of Isla Cristina, organized by the Association...
Profitable Tuna Exports Drive Century Pacific Stock To All-Time High
Philippines' leading canned tuna processor published its financial results yesterday, which again happen to be extremely good. The day before, on August 3, its stock hit an all-time high at...
600 Candidates For StarKist’s 200 Job Vacancy
Since mid-May, the StarKist American Samoa tuna plant has been operating under capacity due to a lack of workers. Despite the US territory’s borders still being closed due to the COVID-19...
US Blocks Albacore From MSC Certified Fiji Longliner Over Forced Labor
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has ordered the rejection of all tuna cargo originating from a Fijian-flagged longliner after an investigation showed that it uses forced labor practices...
Italian Officials Flood EU System With Tuna Alerts
In July, Italy reported four tuna-related issues to the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). The incidents include serious health issues and hospitalizations due to tuna with...
Disappointing StarKist Sales Depress Dongwon Industries’ Q2 Results
The 2021 second-quarter (Q2) results of Dongwon Industries were unexpectedly disappointing. Temporary factors in the fishing business and a delay in the estimated improvements of StarKist were...
Peruvian Officials Ignore Debt By Accusing Tuna Supplier Of Non-Compliance
The Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) in Peru is trying to play dumb and is ignoring a debt of more than PEN 500,000 (USD 123,500) regarding the purchase of tuna for emergency packages for...
Readers Disagree With Good Catch’s Campaign Against Subway
None of Atuna’s readers approved of Good Catch’s campaign against Subway. The initiative consisted of handing out their tuna-free products from vans outside Subway locations in London, New...
Decision To Overturn Buyer’s Classes In Big Three Lawsuit Vacated
The move to overturn the three classes of canned tuna buyers in the ongoing price-fixing lawsuit in the US has been vacated. This was decided by all the judges that formed the US Court for...
IO Nation Cannot Monitor Foreign Vessels After Failure To Pay VMS Bills
Satellite monitoring is essential for fishing nations to track who is fishing in their waters, especially when it comes to foreign vessels. However, the Indian Ocean (IO) nation of Kenya is...