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US Market Loses Its Taste For Thai Canned Tuna
Thai canners are fighting to keep up their export volumes to the US market, but it appears that buyers in the nation have been losing taste for the product, as imports into the massive market...
EU Investigators Sent To Yellow Carded Thailand
As Thai fishery stakeholders air their confidence in ridding themselves of the current IUU yellow card issued to the country by the EU last year, EU Commission officials are currently en route...
US Gov’t Pulls Out Of USD 80m+ Tuna Treaty
In a new announcement this week, the US government has stated that it is officially pulling out of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, a historic agreement that has been in place for the last 27...
Record No. Of Seiners Still Anchored In Port
A record number of purse seiners have been left anchored in the Marshall Islands' port of Majuro this month, marking a slow start to the commercial tuna fishing season of 2016. According to...
Princes Increasingly Targeting French Market
After expanding its brand into the French market just two years ago, Princes has now opened a new office in Paris following reports of strong growth in the country across its canned tuna range...
El Niño Has Peaked – What Does This Mean For Tuna?
With El Niño having now reached its peak in the Pacific, expectations are that there is a return to normal conditions on the horizon, but with little knowledge of exactly when this will occur....
Thai Imports Slow Peru’s Production
Thai-processed canned tuna is flooding the Peruvian market, according to the National Society of Industries (SNI), which states that the low cost of the product is appealing to buyers, due to...
UK Supermarkets’ Desperate Fight Against Aldi & Lidl
There’s no stopping the rise of the German discounters, it seems, as Aldi and Lidl have been named top in a list of the UK’s favorite brands of 2015. Recently the two international chains have...
Is EPO Catch About To Get Even Bigger?
Today marks the end of the IATTC second annual fishery closure, which has seen a two month halt by a significant chunk of the EPO operating seiner fleet. Record catch volumes have been reeled...
Cannery Shuts Down For Third Time
As the tuna crisis in Venezuela continues, it has been revealed that a tuna canning plant of one of the country’s biggest brands has been closed for the third time, with reports that this time...
Low Carbon Footprint Of FADs A Myth?
A commonly presented advantage of FAD-dependent tuna fishing operations may have been crushed, as recent research reveals an “unexpected relationship” between FAD use and fuel consumption. As...
UK Supermarkets Lower Prices To Compete With Aldi + Lidl
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Will Seiners With Higher Standards Be Pushed Out First?
One of the strong arguments that part of the US fleet has put forward in its non-payment to the US Tuna Treaty is the high cost of fishing access to the EEZs of Pacific Island nations, a...
Wegmans Follows Kroger Into Collusion Claims
Adding yet another high profile name to the price fixing case against the US Big Three, major US grocery store Wegmans has joined Kroger and a number of others in filing an anti-trust lawsuit...
WCPO Hurricane Forces Seiners Back To Port
Hurricane Pali has become the earliest Category 2 storm on record to hit the Western Central Pacific this week, as it formed nearly 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, and began moving towards...
$25 Million Bank Loan For Tri Marine’s ‘The Tuna Store’
Tri Marine’s US distribution subsidiary, The Tuna Store, is to be injected with a USD 25 million credit line aimed at supporting the company’s rapidly growing business. But Tri Marine won’t be...
Thai Union Helps Bail Out Human Rights Activist
Well known human rights activist, Andy Hall, who has been working in Thailand to cut out labor abuses including in tuna processing factories, has been granted bail ahead of his indictment next...
Frinsa Aims For Smartphone Tuna Sales
Spanish firm Frinsa, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of canned tuna, is taking a serious look at how modern technology can benefit business in 2016, and has expanded its online shopping...
ATA: Lump Sum Payment Blocks All US Seiners
The US Tuna Treaty must be restructured to become more flexible, not just for the industry and the US fleet, but also for all governments involved. This is the perspective of Brian Hallman,...