Tuna canneries in Spain could be hit by a loss of USD 4.5 million if the government cuts aid to a planned cogeneration. Companies have called on the Minister of Agriculture, Food and...
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Calvo To Switch Places With Garavilla In Colombia?
Calvo Group forecasts healthy growth in sales value this year, with a rise of 8.3 percent on the cards. With tuna being its main business, the major Spanish canner expects to ramp up revenues...
Thousands Demonstrate For Extension Trade Deal
Thousands of people took the streets in order to demonstrate their support for a tuna trade deal that is essential to their daily livelihood. More than 8,000 Ecuadorians took to the Murcielago...
Philippines To Deport Vietnamese Tuna Poachers
Seven Vietnamese tuna fishermen are facing deportation after they were sued for poaching in waters 16 nautical miles from Subic town in the Philippines. The local court has ordered their...
Italian Authorities Alert On Spanish Tuna Mercury Levels
Mercury levels in chilled tuna loins from Spain have been the subject of Italian authorities’ most recent notification to the EU Rapid Alerts System. Tensions between Spanish tuna processors...
Longlining As Solution For Bottom Trawl And Imprisonment
Deep sea longline tuna fishing has been offered as a solution for the long-running tuna war between Indian and Sri Lankan fishing. In a memorandum to Indian Prime Minister, Narenda Modi, the...
Production Boosts Carbon Footprint Of Canned Tuna
It’s not just vessel fuel usage in the canned tuna supply chain that has an impact on its carbon footprint. It appears the intensive material use in the production and packaging stage can...
Minister Threatens Sanctions For Ghana IUU Vessels
A warning of a total ban in fish products exported from Ghana to the EU has urged the country’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister, Nayon Bilijo, to threaten with sanctions forany local...
‘Ocean Cleanup’ Could Remove 50% Plastic Garbage
A few small areas within the Pacific Ocean could be receiving a cleanup. Within ten years, nearly half of the plastic littering the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ could be removed as part...
Alliance Select CEO Denies Mismanagement Claims
The Chief Executive of Philippine tuna processor, Alliance Select Foods International, is denying claims of mismanagement and self-dealing thrown at him by a group of Singaporean shareholders....
Can Mexican Yellowfin Get MSC? What Did You Think?
A strong majority opinion has emerged from our latest atuna.com homepage poll, with a high percentage of subscribers believing that the Mexican yellowfin fisheries are able to obtain MSC...
Mexican Firms Now Losing Millions On “Dolphin Safe” Embargo In EU
The effects of the trade embargo promoted by the United States is coming at a high price for Mexican tuna companies. Carranza Leovigild Beltran, President of Pinsa Group, with the largest...
Seized: 186 Tons Of IUU Med Bluefin Catch
There’s been as many as 79 IUU bluefin fishing violations sprawled across the media over the last 12 months. Together, these incidents have resulted in the seizure of 186 tons of the tuna...
Too Many Purse Seiners Wipes Out Efficiency Gain
Increases in the global fishing capacity appear to be counteracting technological innovations that have improved the efficiency of modern vessels. Suggested by new data, as the purse seine...
Major UK Foodservice Tuna Importer Ends Activities
Catering tuna importers in the UK could be looking at new opportunities in the domestic market, as one major importer of foodservice size has stopped all tuna activities. Speaking with one...
1Q Net Profit For Century Pacific Hits USD 7.3M
Century Pacific has reeled in an increased net profit for the first quarter of this year, reaching USD 7.3 million. Reporting to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the company announced that its...
How Much Fuel Is Needed To Catch 2.7 Million M/T Of Tuna?
Together these vessels landed as much as 2.7 million tons of tuna in 2009, but how much fuel does the global tuna purse seine fleet burn over a year in order to make these volumes possible?...
Steep Hike Of Bangkok Skipjack Price
The Bangkok skipjack price is getting even healthier, as it continues its climb of recovery on the atuna.com Market Price Watch. Witnessing a strong 10.71 percent upsurge since May 22nd, the...
Overcapacity Dominates Twitter’s #Tuna2014 Conference Commentary
As the presentations of the World Tuna Trade Conference reached the hundreds of delegates who attended the recent Bangkok trade event, summarized commentary via Twitter of the hottest topics...
Ghana And Seychelles To Support Each Others Plants
An agreement has been signed by Seychelles and Ghana to allow the two nations to top-up each other’s tuna exports to the EU. The deal gives permission for the countries that both have tuna...