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...
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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)...
Iran Gillnet Fleet Shut Down By IOTC Yellowfin Quota
The IOTC has announced the 2021 yellowfin catch limits for the tuna fleets in the Indian Ocean (IO) as part of its continuing efforts to rebuild this stock. Due to exceeding quotas...
Missing Longliner Found Drifting With No Trace Of Crew
A Taiwanese-flagged tuna longliner missing in the Pacific was spotted drifting empty in the ocean four days later, and the crew of 10 that was on board have yet to be located. The vessel’s...
Coronavirus Cuts 1st Bluefin Auction Price By 90%
Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market’s New Year auctions usually result in exorbitant prices being offered for bluefin, but not this year. Today, the most expensive bid was by a Tokyo-based sushi...
Mexican Fisherman Dies After Boat Smashes Conservationists’ Vessel
A fisherman died in the Gulf of California after his vessel collided with a bigger one used by the US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reported BBC. The organization claims that the...
EU Alerts: Yellowfin Products Rejected At EU Borders
In December, The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) reported six incidents varying from histamine to high levels of food additives in EU imported tuna products. The most serious...
US Agency Blocks Tuna From Taiwanese Longliner For Forced Labor
The US authorities have added another Taiwanese tuna longliner to their blacklist for forced labor issues. On December 31, the Office of Trade of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...
Maldivians Pay More For Their Own Pole & Line Tuna Than Americans
Pole-and-line caught tuna has forever been an important food and protein source for the population of the Maldives, an island nation with extremely limited land and food...
Fire Breaks Out In Isabel Tuna Factory In Spain
A fire broke out on Sunday morning in the Conservas Isabel tuna factory in O Grove, a municipality of Galicia in Spain but firefighters managed to bring things under control in a short period...