Australia’s Port Lincoln Tuna Processors is set to double its production in the coming months as focus is put on expanding its product range. Reducing canned tuna production, the company will...
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Albacore Crisis: “Greedy And Incompetent Officials”
“It’s not fishermen that cause the overfishing… it is the greedy and incompetent officials who promote and allow this to happen, to enhance their own importance.” This is the view of Grahame...
Vietnamese Yellowfin Fishers Report Top Catches
Vietnamese small scale fishermen are reporting top catches, with nearly 50 artisinal tuna vessels of Tuy Hoa bringing an average yield of over 1.5 tons each. Small fishing boats continue...
Security Risks Drive Electronic Observers Initiatives
The Spanish tuna fleet is motivating that security risks have driven initiatives toward electronic video monitoring rather than onboard human observers. As part of the Initiative...
Can Lower Raw Material Accelerate TUF Sales?
With raw material tuna having dropped as low as to USD 1,180 per ton of skipjack on the Bangkok market, analysts are very upbeat and say that Thai Union’s 2014 is looking brighter. In their...
COS Mermaid Finally Got A Name
Catalina is the chosen name for the blond mermaid mascot that has appeared on the labels of Chicken of the Sea tuna cans for sixty years. As many as 49,000 entries were issued for the naming...
Fishing Deal Between EU And Gabon Adopted
The EU and Gabon’s relationship just got a little bit stronger. A fishing deal between the two parties has been adopted as part of a Council meeting held this week. Agriculture and Fisheries...
ASK ATUNA: How Do I Maximize The Drained Weight In My Canned Production?
Ask Atuna… If you have a question about any aspect of the tuna industry, we’d be pleased to hear it. Our team will regularly select one of your submitted questions to answer in detail in the...
TUF Invests To Revolutionize Global Tuna Market
Thai Union is getting connected with its consumers and investing to revolutionize the global tuna market. The world’s largest canned tuna producing company is channeling hundreds of thousands...
Japan & Maldives To Enhance Security, Economic Ties
An agreement to enhance bilateral cooperation has been made between Japan and the Maldives. Maritime security and economic development will be areas of focus in the country to country...
Indonesia Working On MSC Certification Of Its Tuna Fisheries
Indonesia is currently working on getting MSC certification for its tuna. The country’s government, in the press, says it “is facilitating the marine and fisheries product certification...
Americans Forget Nutritious Seafood In Strive To Become Healthy
Many Americans seem to be ignoring nutritious seafood products at a time when there is increasing focus on improving diets. The Wall Street Journal states that from 2011 to 2012, consumption...
FDA Warning Letters On Histamine And Tuna
The bulk of the nine warning letters released last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were addressed to seafood processing facilities for violations of seafood Hazard Analysis and...
Collective Action Can End The Albacore Crisis
By James Movick, Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) as published in the Islands Business Magazine. There has been a lot of press coverage in the past...
Cook Islands Moves To Establish Bigeye Fishery
The Cook Islands Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) is moving forward in its attempts to establish a bigeye tuna fishery in the Cook Islands. In 2012, the Cook Islands launched a three...
French Navy Seizes Chinese Longliner
Sea border dispute between Vanuatu and New Caledonia has resulted in the arrest and conviction of a Chinese boat captain and members of his crew. New Caledonian maritime surveillance...
Century Pacific Announces IPO Range Price
Century Pacific Food Inc., the Philippines monopolist in the canned tuna segment, has narrowed the indicative selling price for its initial public offering (IPO). In a public notice, the...
US 2014 Single Duty Quota Division Announced
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced the calendar year 2014 tariff-rate quota quantity for tuna fish in airtight containers (canned tuna) classifiable under HTSUS 1604.14.22. This...
Bermuda Fisherman And His Monster 1,000lb Tuna
In an article in the US-based National Fisherman magazine headlined ‘Big fish, small island’, veteran angler David Soares recounted how he reeled in the 1,000 lbs bluefin on Challenger Banks...
SPTC: Attack Over Marine Mammal Violations Is False
In a blog post published earlier this month, the Campaign for Eco-Safe Tuna states that certain tuna purse seiners owned by the South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) had violated regulations...