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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...
Pact Triples Taiwan’s Bluefin Catch
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou said April 12 that the country’s East China Sea tuna fishing industry has grown substantially over the past year, attributing this achievement to the landmark...
Greenpeace Scales Down Pacific Activity To One Employee
Greenpeace is closing its Pacfic regional office in Fiji at the end of the month. Greenpeace did not believe a Fiji office was needed to do in the Pacific what they need to do says Ben...
Salvaging Of Korean Owned Vessel Started In Ghana
In Ghana the salvaging of a sunken tuna vessel in the port of Tema has started. The Ganananian press reports that the vessel is named M/V Madamfo, which weighed about 860 metric tons at the...
Tesco Supplier Bows To Greenpeace Demands
Oriental & Pacific’s owner, LDH, has given into Greenpeace demands and has told campaigners that from April 2015 it will only sell sustainable caught tuna. Tesco and Greenpeace entered...
Tuna Farmers Dream New York Restaurant
A bluefin tuna farming company has high hopes of opening a restaurant in New York to serve its farm-raised fish. The firm believes that its methods can help meet the booming global demand for...
Japan Wants FTA But Not On Tuna
Japan wants to protect its domestic tuna market, and for the seafood to not be part of a recently announced free trade agreement. While several of Australia’s major industries are set to...
The Mega Tuna Market That Few Know About
It’s a tuna market that not many know of, and it’s positively booming. The Arab world is collectively importing far more Thai canned tuna than any other global market, with the European Union...
Study: USA Imports Alarming Amounts Of IUU Tuna
A new report published in scientific magazine Marine Policy has found that alarming amounts of tuna products exported to the United States are from IUU catch. Based on 2011 data, the study...