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New Seiner For Dongwon’s “Ageing” Fleet
With the focus of modernizing its increasingly ageing tuna fleet, Dongwon Industries, with 40 fishing vessels now under its management, launches the Hanara purse seiner as the latest addition...
Weakening Dollar Serves EU Tuna Buyers
Despite the global whole round tuna price now rising from dramatically low levels, the weakening of the US dollar against Europe’s leading currency is somewhat offsetting the financial impact...
Vietnam Imports USD 1 Billion Of Raw Material
New numbers for 2015 show that Vietnam spent over one billion US dollars importing raw material last year to turn into products for export, with tuna making up a large 20 percent of this...
Is Video Monitoring A Viable Alternative To Onboard Observers?
The safety of onboard observers in the tuna industry is fast becoming one of the most talked about issues surrounding tuna fishing, as the disappearances and possible deaths of several people...
How European Brands Are Pricing Their MSC Tuna
The blue tick of approval from MSC, marking products as sustainably certified, is steadily becoming a more common sight on the supermarket shelves of one particular EU market, as increasing...
Tuna At Forefront Of Manila’s First Sustainable Seafood Week
In collaboration with small scale fishermen, the top hotels and restaurants of Manila have come together, along with other environment groups and fisheries NGOs, to coordinate the Philippines’...
More Tuna Vessel Seizures By Thai Anti-IUU Taskforce
As part of Thailand’s continued clampdown on IUU activities, coupled with the potential of an EU red card looming, two tuna vessels have been seized by the Command Center to Combat Illegal...
EU Paying Far Too Much For Indian Ocean Fishing?
An ongoing Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) may not be panning out to be as lucrative as the EU once thought, with European flagged vessels catching just 10 percent of their...
Is Safety On French Seiners Threatened?
The French Navy has provided a strong trusted service to the country’s tuna seiners over the past seven years, offering onboard security teams in areas of particular risk. However, following a...
New Observer Safety Measures Now Mandatory In Pacific
Being at sea for long periods of time monitoring catch data, daily activity and various other attributes of a tuna vessel can already be a tough job for onboard observers, and with little...
StarKist’s Owner Keeps Struggling With Its Stock Price
It’s been a downward spiral for share holders in StarKist’s Korean owner, Dongwon Industries, as a slight value loss earlier in the year has been followed by even more decline in the...
John West “Finnish Tuna” Stunt Takes Over The Internet
John West Australia’s fake tuna brand, unveiled last week in Sydney, has taken the internet by a storm over the last seven days as confused consumers opened their tuna cans and shared the...
Mexican Tuna In US Hardly Affected By Actions Of Dolphin Activists
New data has revealed that despite US consumers and retailers being subjected to vast high-profile attacks regarding the selling of Mexican tuna, the Central American country’s exports of...
More Fuel To The Fire On “Buy American” Tuna?
The “Buy American” fight could soon get heated up again, as two US senators push to strengthen the rules within the National School Lunch program. In the case of tuna, while already strict...
Sellers Firm On Higher Skipjack Price
With the bearish mood on Bangkok skipjack (SKJ1.8:BKK) ended, traders and boatowners in the Thai capital are now asking for substantially higher prices for their raw material, pushing the...
Bonito: Both Beautiful And Brawny
Weighing in at up to 10kg, the Atlantic bonito is a small but aptly named fish, famous for its dark blue to green coloring with blackish lines. A delicacy in Italy, these spectacular fish are...
Thailand’s Profitable “Black Meat Express”
Despite strong calls to increase domestic canned tuna processing in PNG, there is still an obvious existence of what has previously been termed the “Black Meat Express”. A situation continues...
Safeway Tries To Slash Underfilling Claims
In reaction to claims that the company is underfilling its standard 5oz tuna cans, major US retailer Safeway is making moves to reduce the lawsuit it has found itself up against, attempting to...
40 Spanish Seiners Need 5 Years To Obtain MSC
Blaming a lack of effective measures taken by tuna RFMOs, a growing concern regarding the overfished state of various tuna fisheries has led to a commitment from a group of 40 Spanish...