Thai Union has set up a Global Innovation Incubator (Gii) in a Bangkok university, focusing on using research and new technologies to create added value tuna products. Gii is the result of a...
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FFA Director On IUU: “Pacific Is Watching”
This year has seen the Kurukuru surveillance sweep of the Pacific Islands region become the largest ever IUU monitoring operation of the area, covering a total range of over 21 million square...
Tri Marine NOAA Petition Denied
Despite a huge majority of public comments swaying in favor of Tri Marine’s petition to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), authorities have decided to deny the appeal. Reports from...
Confirming The Crisis: Thai Raw Mat Imports Drop
Suggesting a continued crisis in the Thai canned tuna processing sector, recent stats show a modest yet significant slide in Thailand’s imports of frozen whole round tuna, slipping six percent...
Gap Closing Between Manta And BKK SKJ Price
A higher supply of whole round skipjack making its way to Ecuador is driving prices down in Manta (SKJ1.8:MNT), with the market now falling to a level of USD 1,200 per ton. Demand for canned...
GPS Trackers For Consumers To Track Indonesian Tuna
The firm Bali Seafood International has announced the completion of its “boat to plate” traceability pilot designed to promote sustainable tuna and improve the livelihoods of artisanal...
Subsidy Cuts Could Double Cost For Major Seiner Fleet
In a situation where the country’s economy could severely suffer without immediate spending reforms, the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, is forced to make decisions, which for some...
Subsidy Cuts Could Double Cost For Major Seiner Fleet (2)
In a situation where the country’s economy could severely suffer without immediate spending reforms, the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, is forced to make decisions, which for some...
Thai Union Promotes Migrant Workers Rights
Thai Union, a company which has recently been under a lot of pressure on social conditions of crew and workers, has now begun a “long-term labor empowerment program”. This aims to ensure all...
BKK SKJ: Another Slump In Bearish Market
With continued low demand from end market buyers, the Bangkok skipjack (SKJ1.8:BKK) price has slipped once again, declining to USD 1,150 per ton. This significant 11.5 percent slide from...
Chinese Buy Iconic Spanish Premium Tuna Brand
A state-owned Asian investment group called China Resources has acquired 100 percent of Hijos de Carlos Albo, an iconic Spanish canned tuna brand in a deal worth a reported EUR 48 million (USD...
Cans Now Also Shrinking In EU, Race To The Bottom?
As part of a previously termed “shrinkflation” trend, a few branded cans across the EU tuna market have been detected as becoming considerably shorter, as the United States tendency appears to...
Thai Union Globally Under Pressure
The recently launched campaign to urge consumers and investors around the world to avoid canned tuna from Thai Union has attracted support from various corners, placing mounting and now...
Call For Closure Of EU For Turkish Tuna
One of Spain’s top fresh tuna exporters, Balfegó Group, is set to call for ICCAT countries to close their borders to bluefin tuna from Turkey during the next International Commission for the...
Echebastar: Maldives MSC Should Be “Annulled”
The Echebastar fishery group has revealed it believes it is WWF’s responsibility to ensure that the Maldives pole and line fishery has its MSC certification annulled, in addition to the...
Red-Rated Yellowfin Triggers No Changes For ISSF Yet
After releasing the latest version of its Status of the Stocks Ratings back in March this year, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has said that despite the recent...
Alliance Further Postpones Stock Rights Offering
Alliance Select International has further deferred its stock rights offering, adding an extra one month delay to the move. The company failed to get the go-ahead from the Securities and...
Sapmer In Burning Boat Rescue
A tuna vessel has saved the lives of 29 fishermen who were trapped onboard a ship which caught fire in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles recently. Sapmer’s purse seiner “Dolomieu”, a 90...
Beached FADs Creating Island Junkyards
With up to 110,000 new FADs released each year, it is virtually impossible to estimate exactly how many fish aggregating devices (FADs) are really floating in our oceans. And with new FADs...
Why More Tuna Cans Are Saying “Wild Caught”
Across the canned tuna market, we’re increasingly seeing brands and retailers stamp a ‘wild caught’ claim on their products; something that more than 99 percent of the world’s tuna supply has...