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Chinese Pour Millions Into Tuna Processing Plant
A Chinese fishing company, which last year announced a joint venture with US tuna supplier Tri Marine, has recently publicized plans to invest over USD 30 million to develop a new tuna...
EU’s Zero Duty Quota Applications Piling Up
Papers have been piling up in EU customs following the kick off to the zero duty tuna loin import quota issued by the European Union. A massive 60 percent of the total 25,000 ton quota for the...
StarKist Revisits Classic 70’s To Connect With “Baby Boomers”
StarKist’s new Charlie the Tuna advert could be a blast from the past for “babyboomers” and “Generation X’s” as the brand has re-worked “a classic” StarKist advert which it first aired on...
PNA’s Pacifical Partnership: A Game Changer In Sustainable Production?
A new study has documented the way in which the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) has created the conditions for its individual states to use the MSC sustainability certification in...
Princes: Profits Tumble In Tough Market
Princes is crediting “challenging trading conditions” to a fall in both revenue and pre-tax profits during the last financial year, with the latter down a heavy 18.6 percent YoY. The company...
Six Figures Paid At Final Tsukiji New Year Auction
The first bluefin of the year has been officially sold at Japan’s famous Tsukiji fish market, reaching a price more than three times higher than in 2015. The 200kg fish cost the winning bidder...
Huge Marine Reserve Created In Atlantic
The British government is set to create a marine reserve almost the same size as the UK in a territory the country holds in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, designed to help police a tuna fishery...
With No Treaty Licenses, US Fleet Remains In Port
Suspending operations for the foreseeable future, the US seiner fleet is docked in port, with no tuna licenses to continue fishing in Pacific zones, after the US government failed to meet the...
Tuna: Not Extinct By 2048 After All?
Now ten years old, a study which predicted that virtually all salt-water fish would be extinct by 2048is now a decade closer to its deadline, and after facing some well publicized criticism...
Where Will 2016 Take The BKK SKJ Price?
As the previous year draws to a close and a new one begins, many take the opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months. However as well as doing that, here at atuna.com we are keen to look...
Fishers, Fair Trade, and finding middle ground
Authors: Megan Bailey, Simon Bush, Peter Oosterveer, Laksmi Larastiti Abstract: The goal of Fair Trade certification is to contribute to sustainable development by offering trading conditions...
24 Philippine Fishermen Arrested By Indonesian Navy
Indonesia authorities have arrested at least 24 Filipino fishermen on board two vessels who were fishing illegally in waters off North Maluku province in Indonesia. The first ship seized by...
Evidence Of EU Vessels Involvement In IUU Fishing
Liberia’s Bureau of National Fisheries (BNF) states to have concrete evidence of illegal fishing of European Union (EU) vessels in the country’s waters. Mr. Berengere...
Court Rules In favor Of Over-Quota Catch Bigeye Longliners
A US federal court in Hawaii has ruled longline fishermen in Hawaii may continue catching more bigeye tuna, or ahi, than the maximum quota set by international regulators. U.S. District Judge...
Operators Accused Of Holding US Seiner Fleet Hostage
According to a press release by the US tuna purse seine fishing firms the Global Companies (Ocean Global, LLC, Sea Global, LLC, and Pacific Global, LLC), they are being held hostage due to the...
Held At Gunpoint To Give Up Tuna Cans
Armed criminals intercepted a truck in Argentina and held the driver at gunpoint in order to get their hands on over 2,000 boxes of Valle branded canned tuna. Their loot, which was the result...
WTO Divided On How To Curb Tuna Subsidies
So far WTO talks remain divided on how to curb harmful fishing subsidies, namely in the tuna industry, and try to protect global fish stocks for the future. Global agreement will be needed to...
US Makes Vietnam Wait 10 Years For Zero Duty
Delving deep into TPP documents, it appears that the US will be making some tuna exporting nations, most notably Vietnam, wait as long as 10 years for a zero percent trade benefit on a number...
Vietnam’s Tuna: Disappointing Results
With initial expectations being very high, optimization of Vietnam’s domestic caught tuna value chain has not yet yielded the expected results, at the end of year one of a four year trial,...