Yesterday, Tri Marine, one of the world’s largest tuna companies, announced the sale of its global tuna supply business to its longtime partner, Bolton Group. There has been no...
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Tariffs For Upcoming EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement Explained
The EU and Vietnam signed a Free Trade Agreement to reduce the duty tariffs for each other’s imported goods. Atuna mentioned the reduced tariff on canned tuna but now has more exact...
Renato Curto’s New Business Unit Will Not Retain TMI Name
A new business unit that will be headed by Renato Curto, CEO of Tri Marine, will not retain the company’s name. Tri Marine announced yesterday that it will be selling its global...
Marukei Katsuobushi To Start Tuna Extraction Plant In Galicia
The Japanese fishing company, Marukei Katsuobushi Inc., is expanding to Galicia with a 1,170 square meter tuna processing plant. The facilities will be located...
Maldives’ Tuna Purchases Increased In Q1 2019
In the first quarter of 2019, the purchases by fish processing companies in the Maldives increased to 25,000 M/T, as reported in the Quarterly Economic Review by the Maldives...
Atuna Poll: Will FAD Ban Period Affect Skipjack Price?
At the beginning of July, the Bangkok price for skipjack hit the USD 1000 per M/T barrier. This price is the reference point for the global tuna industry. Due to filled...
Readers: Expect No EU Red Card For Vietnam
According to half of our readers responding to Atuna's poll, the dreadful results from the US TIP report on human trafficking will not result in a EU red card for...
Tri Marine Sells Global Tuna Supply Operations To Bolton Group
Tri Marine, one of the world’s largest tuna companies, announced the sale of its global tuna supply business to its longtime partner, Bolton Group. Since 2013, Bolton has held a...
Taiwanese Longliner On Fire In Indian Ocean
A Taiwanese-flagged tuna fishing vessel, Feng Kuo 568, was reported to be on fire on July 3 in the Indian Ocean. Its twenty crew members abandoned the boat around 1,400 nautical...
Chicken Of The Sea Wins PEOPLE’s ‘Best Tuna’
Chicken of the Sea's Infusions: Basil has won the main prize in the tuna category of the PEOPLE Food Awards 2019: The Best Supermarket Products. The item – skipjack in olive oil and sweet...
EU Alerts: Italy’s Food Poisoning Scare
In June, six tuna-related incidents were recorded by the Regulatory Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) of the EU. Italy reported two serious cases. The first one was related to...
Largest Albacore Tuna Onion Dish
In the capital of Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, the gastronomic event “The Largest Tuna ‘Encebollado’ In The World” took place in the last week of June. A pot four meters long...
Ghana Imports Of Canned Tuna To UK Dive
UK consumers still prefer canned tuna even though the imports of the product in 2018 had a miniscule four percent fall from the previous year – from 110,259 M/T to 106,266 M/T. The...
Crisis For US West Coast Albacore, Landings Lowest In 20 Years
Just as in 2018, albacore trollers in the US West Coast hope tuna landings will pick up in time for this year’s season, which will peak in July. Last year, 446...
Bolivia Considering To Build Tuna Plant
Landlocked Bolivia continues to claim rights to tuna fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) and the Atlantic Ocean (AO). The nation even intends to build a tuna processing plant...
FDA Updates Advice: Eating Tuna Benefits Your Health
Worries about mercury in tuna and other seafood fueled by many US organizations including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the years has resulted in less consumption of...
World’s Largest Tuna TV Commercials Collection On Atuna
At Atuna, we aim to keep you up to date with every aspect of the tuna industry. Hence, we also want our readers to be aware of how brands market, promote, and use...
Heavy Cost-Related Regulations Kills US Seiners’ Profitability
This week, South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced that it will be downsizing its fleet by the end of this year – eight tuna purse seiners will be sold off from its original...
Chinese Allowed To Fish In PhiIippines EEZ A Presidential Misstep
In what could only be seen as a political misstep, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte might have given the Chinese President Xi Jinping the idea that if there is a...
Internship At Pacifical For Trainees From PNA
The internship program is aimed at passing on experience and knowledge to trainees about how tuna is caught, supplied, processed and marketed. Trainees join Pacifical’s Market Development and...