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...
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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...
Sightings Of Huge Tuna On The Up In Canada
Reported sightings of enormous bluefin tuna in Newfoundland, Canada, have been coming in thick and fast over the summer months, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada...
Solander Sees Albacore Export Fall Sharply
Low catches in the country’s waters are causing struggles for one of Fiji’s largest fish exporters, which has seen its albacore shipments to other nations drop considerably. Solander Pacific,...
ISSF: NGOs, Buyers, RFMO’s Should Improve Sustainability
Consensus on tuna sustainability among NGOs is growing, according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Working in parallel to this emergence, the foundation states...
MSC’s 15 Year Milestone Shows Record Sales
This week marked the 15th anniversary of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), celebrating 15 years since the launch of the program which now covers 108 different species of fish and marine...
TU Gets Dongwon & Tri Marine Higher Wage Costs
While the rise is 10 dollar cents less than what was originally expected, tuna cannery workers in American Samoa have finally got their hourly wage hike, which has been blocked by Congress for...
Extra Challenges For Sri Lanka As EU Reviews Ban?
As well as the current red card ban placed on Sri Lanka’s fisheries exports to the European Union, tuna shipments from the Asian country could face some other challenges too. On November 7th,...
Where Will Bangkok SKJ Prices Hit Bottom This Year?
With Bangkok skipjack prices having taken another fall in the last few weeks, rumors suggest that many industry professionals are anticipating further drops in the current market and are...
Canned In The USA – But Product Of China?
The US is still the world’s largest single country market for canned tuna, but struggling to keep consumers loyal to the product. One way to promote tuna is to emphasize it is “made in the...
Atuna Readers Expect US Euthynnus Chunk Light Sales To Grow
The results of atuna.com’s recent opinion poll are in, where we asked readers: “Do you expect continued growth of US imports of Euthynnus Chunk Light?” The majority of voters, at 84 percent,...
Extra Quota For US Fleet On Top Of Catch Limit
Longline fishermen in Hawaii have been granted permission to fish an extra 1,000 M/T of bigeye tuna despite having already hit their annual catch limit of 3,500 M/T by early August, sparking...
Jealsa Loses Out In South America
While South America has been getting a lot of attention as a canned tuna market with huge potential at this year’s Anuga, for Jealsa Rianxeira, countries in the region have presented...
Concerning Histamine Levels Spur Product Recall
A recall on a batch of tuna products distributed on the French market has been necessary this month, following reports of worryingly high levels of histamine. Just yesterday, the EU Rapid...
EU To Invest Half A Billion Euros In Fight Against IUU
By 2020, the EU plans to have invested a considerable EUR 675 million towards combatting IUU fishing worldwide. During his first visit to the Conxemar international fair of frozen seafood in...
Salmon Ahead Of Tuna & Cod In EU Fish Consumption
While 2014 EU canned tuna imports represented a five year high in the stats, a freshly published report outlines that tuna, over its entire product range, is the second most popular seafood...