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First Bluefin Of The Year Sells For USD 208/kg
The price of the first bluefin of the year sold in Tokyo, Japan has dropped once again. The 180kg bluefin tuna auctioned at the Tsukiji fish market was sold for 30 percent less than last...
Three Dead Bodies Replaced With Tuna?
After reports that three dead bodies had been discovered in the freezer of a suspected IUU tuna fishing vessel, updates now suggest that three large tuna have been found in their place. This...
Fijian Tuna Processor Not Affected By Bumble Bee Acquisition
As a supplier of 50 percent of the albacore going to Bumble Bee Seafoods’ Santa Fe cannery, Fiji’s major fish processing company, PAFCO, says that it will not be affected by the recent switch...
Phil GSP+ Gives Little Confidence Boost To Century Investors
End of December, the Philippines was handed a ticket to zero duty canned tuna trade with the largest import market in the world. The GSP+ deal secured with the European Union was a huge plus...
Portable Electronic Device Measures Fat Level In Bluefin
Tuna wholesalers and retailers will now be able to determine the fat level in bluefin tuna in just 10 seconds. This is the claim of Japanese researchers, who have developed a portable device...
No EU Competent Health Authority For US Samoa Canneries
Tri Marine has managed to avoid adding some extra costs to its cannery’s operations, thanks to efforts taken by American Samoa Governor, Lolo Moliga. The company has been notified it will no...
Japanese Tuna Town Trying To Reinvent Itself
One small town in the Aomori Prefecture of Japan is trying to increase the recognition of its catch, by reinventing itself as a “tuna town”. Of the Aomori’s tuna catch volume, Fukaura leads by...
Caveman Diet Could See US Tuna Consumption Surge
Eating like a caveman is a craze set to hit the United States this year, as the Paleo diet becomes an ever more popular trend. According to Datamonitor Consumer, a US consumer market analyst,...
Diversifying the use of tuna to improve food security and public health in Pacific Island countries and territories
Authors: Johann D. Bell, Valerie Allain, Edward H. Allison, Serge Andréfouët, Neil L. Andrew, Michael J. Batty, Michel Blanc, Jeffrey M. Dambacher, John Hampton, Quentin Hanich, Shelton...
2014 Ends With Slight Slide Of Skipjack Price
As the year draws to a close, the Bangkok skipjack price (SKJ1.8:BKK), has modestly declined due to low buying interest, and still good supplies. After a continuous falling trend since...
Tri Marine Rumored To Be Selling Seiner To Albacora
The Spanish Albacora Group could be the owner of a brand new tuna purse seiner, originally ordered for construction by Tri Marine. Rumor in recent reports suggest that US-based Tri Marine...
Indonesia: Less Poaching, More Local Catch
The local Banyuwangi market in Indonesia is abundant with tuna stocks, which has been attributed to the Marine and Fisheries Ministry’s program to blow up and sink foreign poacher vessels. The...
Growth In Thai Export Shipments To Americas
Despite an eight percent rise in exports to the US, Thai canned tuna producers have suffered a decline in the product’s global shipments. A softening in Thailand’s US market growth from early...
Seiners Benefit From 5-Yr Low Oil Price, But Is A Rebound Coming?
Oil prices closed Monday at a fresh five year low, as the commodity takes the position of one of the worst performing of the year. Tuna purse seine operators will be benefitting from the lows,...
Phil Handliners Want Stop To Juvenile Catch And IUU
As the EU’s decision on the Philippines IUU status still hangs in the balance, the nation’s government has been questioned on what has been described as a continued failure to step up efforts...
Somalia Govt Challenges Exclusive Fishing Rights Deal
The Somalia government is challenging a 2013 fishing rights deal which gives exclusive access to its tuna rich EEZ to one company. Mauritius registered, Somalia Fishguard Ltd, reached an...
Hi-Liner Signs Major Longliner Equipment Deal With Mozambique
Mozambique’s state-owned tuna fishing company is set to receive equipment to develop the country’s longline tuna fishing industry. US firm, Hi-Liner Fishing Gear and Tackle Inc. has signed a...
Thailand Sees No Recovery From EU Export Crash
A bearish trend has hit Thailand’s canned tuna shipments, with further evidence of an EU export crash. Volumes of the product shipped to the world’s largest canned tuna import market have seen...
3 Dead Bodies Found In Tuna Vessel Freezer Off PNG
Detailed investigations are being undertaken into the discovery of three dead bodies in the freezer of a suspected IUU tuna fishing vessel. The boat ran aground off the remote Paona Island,...