Six Peruvian fishermen who disappeared on February 2 were found 273 miles off the port of Paita in Northern Peru by an Ecuadorian tuna fishing vessel. Found on board the Peruvian boat...
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Tuna Now Less Than 50 Percent Of TUF Total Business
As the world’s biggest producer of shelf-stable tuna products, tuna contributed 47 percent of Thai Union Frozen Products’ 2013 total sales. This is down from 2012, when around half of the...
USD Millions Sought To Upgrade GenSan Fleet
The General Santos City local government hopes for the modernization of the city’s thriving fishing industry, by pushing for the release of a national state government grant of USD 4.48...
Marine Reserve Putting Tuna Fishermen Out Of Business
Great Barrier Reef Tuna Director, Annie Lamason, has said that the introduction of the million square kilometer Coral Sea Marine Reserve set for this year will only cause harm to the local...
Workers Push Garavilla To Re-Open Plant: Extortion?
Former employees of Cuca tuna plant in Vilaxoan, Spain, who have had jobs re-located 30km away after production was moved, are fighting hard for the re-opening of the original factory. Workers...
Possible Merger Between Princes And TDM?
A rumor is going around the tuna market of the potential of a merger or possible take-over involving two Mauritius based tuna plants. Princes Mauritius and Thon des Mascareignes could possibly...
NOAA Urged Not To Walk Away From Bigeye Commitment
NOAA is being urged by environmental group, Pew Charitable Trusts, not to walk away on its commitment to reduce the catch of bigeye tuna in order to prevent further overfishing of the...
SIDS Becoming The BOSS Of Tuna
“The Small Island Developing States (SIDS), or ‘Big Ocean Sovereignty States (BOSS)’ as I like to call them, have a choice before them.” This is the perspective from Alfred 'Bubba' Cook, WWF’s...
Tuna Baron: Fish Cannot Come Out Of The Ocean Anymore
Tuna baron, Hagen Stehr says that fish “cannot come from the ocean anymore” as the global population pushes up towards nine billion people. He believes at current levels, southern bluefin tuna...
Century Tuna Launches “My Road To Superbods” Website
Philippine tuna brand, Century Tuna, has launched the website “My Road to Superbods” as part of its new tuna promotion campaign “Century Superbod Super Challenge”. The latest move by the...
Pole And Line Nation Develops Longline To Battle IUU
Primarily known as a pole and line tuna fishing nation, the Fisheries Ministry of the Maldives has launched a program to teach longline fishing to young people in the country, a scheme in...
FAD With “Zero By-Catch Mortality” Does Not Exist
What looked like a breakthrough in the sustainability chain has turned out to be a miscommunication. Spanish fishing company, Albacora S.A., contacted atuna.com to inform that the information...
Lowest Tuna Catch Reported In Last 5 Years
Samoa’s tuna catch for January has dropped to a dramatic five year low after monitoring from the country’s Fisheries Division has confirmed the landed volume. Several local fishing companies...
The Pacific Squad Of “Tuna Detectives”
Fisheries Inspectors, investigators and enforcement officers from across the Pacific are heading home following the fifth Pacific Islands Fisheries Evidence and Investigation Training Course...
Can A Tuna Worker Survive On USD 9,21 Per Day?
According to the writers of a recent Finnwatch report immigrant workers cleaning tuna in Thailand cannot survive on a basic salary. The organization states in its report that, in their view,...
Kenya To Step Up Surveillance On Its Tuna Resources
The Kenyan Government has made plans to step-up the surveillance of its waters. Fisheries stakeholders are pleased with the decision that will see the construction of the Kenyan Oceans and...
Greens Oppose Balfego Expansion Of Atlantic Bluefin Farm
The Spanish environmental group, Ecologists in Action, has opposed an application for the expansion of the Atlantic bluefin tuna rearing project by Spanish Balfego company. The NGO has...
Woman With Muscle: Catches A 411kg Bluefin
After a nearly five-hour struggle, Auckland woman Donna Pascoe, landed a huge 411kg bluefin tuna, a potential world record, which requires a lot of power and endurance from the angler....
Indonesia: A Lot Of Tuna, But Little Overview
Seen as the world’s country with the highest tuna potential, Indonesia’s annual tuna production total in 2012 was 613,557 tons according to the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Being...
Ecuador Sees Exports To Main Market Nose Dive
Ecuador’s canned tuna exports to its main market, Venezuela, dropped by a massive USD 49.59 million in sales from 2012 to 2013. Hit with a struggling economy last year, Venezuela’s imports...