North and South American markets imported a record volume of canned tuna from the EU in the third quarter of 2020 (Q3), with nearly half the products delivered to Canada. The EU export canned...
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Seiner Operators Facing Higher Fuel Cost After Oil Price Hike
Oil prices took a bullish turn with the value hitting the highest last week, a peak not seen since the coronavirus hit. The hike in the benchmark Brent crude impacts the tuna industry as the...
UK Joining IOTC Could Extend Conflict With Mauritius
The UK is the latest member of the IOTC. The kingdom joined the RFMO as a contracting party ahead of the end of the BREXIT transition period on December 31. There are no UK-flagged vessels...
Century Pacific Sets Ambitious Targets For 2021
Century Pacific Food (CNPF) has set a conservative growth target of 10 percent for this year after a phenomenal 20 percent increase in its 2020 revenue. In previous years, the Philippine tuna...
Study States Tuna Aggregate Faster In New DFADs In The Atlantic
A group of researchers has published a report characterizing how tunas occupy drifting FADs (dFADs) in order to improve the understanding of their aggregation dynamics around these objects....
Analyst Claims Dongwon Q4 Earnings Will Exceed Expectations
An investment company has predicted that Dongwon Industries’ performance will keep growing as the demand for canned tuna also increases while the supply for the product is...
Current Fisheries Policies Potentially Contributing To Fish Overexploitation
More than a third of the world's fisheries did not manage to keep fish stocks at maximum sustainable yield levels by 2020 as mapped out by one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
Skipjack Trading Slow, But Market Confident Thai Plants Will Stay Operational
Despite the worry that Bangkok's tuna processors might face supply issues with the increasing number of infection cases, business is carrying on as usual. The news from Atuna’s sources in the...
9 Days And Taiwanese Longliner Crew Still Missing
US authorities are stepping up their efforts to help find the crew of the Taiwanese tuna longliner, ‘Yong Yu Sin No 18’, who have been missing for more than a week. Initially, the owner...
TU Continues Investments Outside Core Tuna Business
The Thai Union Group (TU) has announced the creation of a new company that will manufacture and distribute supplement products. The initiative is a joint venture between TU’s wholly-owned...
Asian Processors Facing 20-ft Container Shortage & Price Hike
A shortage of containers has been forcing carriers to sail at a lower capacity than usual. The demand for the transport boxes is high, but there are simply not enough empty ones to cover the...
Social Media Exaggerates Contamination In Thai Cannery
Thai officials have stated that the information circulating on social media this week that there is a fresh surge of 900 COVID-19 cases after 3,800 tests were done in a canned tuna factory in...
IOTC Schedules Special Session On Yellowfin & Skipjack Sustainability
The IOTC special session which will be held in March will be focusing on more than just the rebuilding of yellowfin stock. The latest circular from the RFMO shows that the event will also...
Readers Split On Whether Tuna Industry Will Maintain 2020 Volumes
Atuna readers are quite evenly split on whether the global canned tuna market will be able to continue its good retail sales of last year into 2021. Since the lockdown started in the first...
Poll: Could Thai Canneries Shutdown Due To Pandemic?
Over the past few weeks, Thailand has been experiencing an increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases. This situation is troubling as many of the infections are concentrated in Bangkok and...
Princes’s Business Shows Increase In Turnover
The Princes Group which owns one of the UK’s leading tuna labels, has revealed that the COVID-19 crisis had a positive impact on its annual results. In fact, the latest information revealed...
Will Surge In Thai COVID-19 Cases Disrupt Pacific Tuna Supply?
A second wave of COVID-19 infections has hit Thailand and this week the government tightened measures to curb the virus from spreading. This is a worrying trend as many of the canneries in the...
China Wants US To Stop Undermining Ties With Fishing Nations
The Chinese government is unhappy about the social media activity of the US Embassy in the country. The Foreign Ministry accused the consular office of using Twitter to sabotage bilateral...
Trump Under Fire For Vetoing Drifting Gillnets Bill
Outgoing US President Donald Trump has come under fire after he vetoed a bill which would end permits given for large mesh drifting gillnets used in federal waters off the coast of California....
Tuna Farming Using AI & IoT To Boost Efficiency
Multiple technological advancements have allowed the bluefin farming business to increase efficiency while lowering costs. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT)...