We’ve published about it several times, and now the news has also hit the renowned financial newspaper Wall Street Journal. As top United States tuna brands battle it out to be regarded as...
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Albacora Introduces FAD With “Practically” Zero Bycatch Mortality
The largest vertically integrated tuna company in Europe, Albacora Group, which operates about 25% of Europe’s total purse seiner catching capacity, has introduced an innovative Fish...
Korea And Australia Sign Free Trade Deal
Australia and South Korea have signed a free trade agreement which is expected to generate hundreds of jobs in the tuna industry. Australian bluefin tuna shipped to Korea will have its tariffs...
FDA Reconfirms Low Level BPA On Canned Food Safe
A study undertaken by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has claimed to reconfirm that the presence of BPA in food cans is safe in low amounts. The data from the research...
Operators Have To Prove Not To Use FADs
Operators of tuna fishing vessels in Costa Rica will have to prove that they are not using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) as part of new, stricter rules announced by the country’s President,...
41 Tuna Vessels On EU IUU List
The European Union has updated its “list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing” and 41 tuna vessels have made the cut. Compiled of 67 fishing boats in total,...
Philippines To Ask Indonesia For Safe Shortcut Tuna Boats
The Philippines is to ask Indonesia to grant it a safe passage for tuna fishing vessels in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) this month. It has been said by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic...
Albacore Crisis Should No Longer Be Ignored In WCPFC
A regional effort to insist the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) to tackle the Fiji albacore crisis is necessary. This is according to WWF’s Western Central Pacific...
Longliners With Skeleton Crews Fill Up Suva’s Tuna Port
Fiji’s Suva port is getting clogged up with an increasing number of tuna longliners and trollers which have even been described by some as “an eyesore.” Authorities responsible for the harbor...
Gulf Of Bengal The Next Battle Ground For Tuna
A drop in catches of large yellowfin, supposedly fueled by poaching by foreign vessels on the East Coast has seen tuna boat operators from Visakhapatnam (Visak), India to raise concern. Over...
Big Iranian Tuna Deal Sinks Trader
A spoiled sale of nearly USD 3 million worth of tuna into Iran has sunk a New Zealand tuna company, seeing it fall into liquidation. Oceanic Seafoods in Auckland was put into voluntary...
Europol Seizes 484 MT Yellowfin In Search For Fakes
As much as 484 tons of yellowfin tuna was seized by Europol, and earmarked as fake, for being incorrectly labelled and not having the required traceability documents. In the Interpol-Europol...
Re-Flagging Seiners Boosts Ecuadorian EPO Skipjack Catches
The re-flagging of six Panamanian purse seiners to the Ecuadorian bannered fleet has sent Ecuadorian skipjack tuna catches on the increase. The boats have changed nationality over the past two...
No More “Smell Of Money”
The “smell of money,” often used by the people of American Samoa to describe the odor of an operational tuna cannery will be prevented in Tri Marine’s new facility in the territory by an...
Tuna: The Super Fish
National Geographic has recently published amazing not-to-miss pictures of “The Super Fish” Bluefin tuna. Unmatched for its athleticism and endurance, the bluefin tuna is equipped with an...
Albacore: Biologically Healthy? Commercially Sick!
Earlier this month, Atuna wrote about the views of tuna specialist, Mr. Robert Gillett, on the stocks of albacore tuna stating these to being “still really good” and not necessarily dwindling...
Fresh Mexican Bluefin For Dubai Restaurants
According to the Undersecretary of Fisheries of Baja California, Matias Arjona Rydalch, producers are betting on Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as a new destination for their bluefin tuna...
“Distant Water Nations Have Narrow Fishing Interests”
“Pacific Island nations need to confront distant water fishing nations to reconcile their narrow fishing interests with their broader role as key strategic and development partners of this...
USD 450 Mio Tuna Plan Heading For Another Disaster
Source: The Star Apparently, Malaysia is hooked on the allure of the tuna industry.Despite the expensive failure of some tuna-related projects, the Malaysian Government hopes that new...
Retailers Choose To Put Alarm Tags In Canned Tuna
The crumbling Argentinean economy and its accompanying inflation has caused something quite unusual. Because of the increase of theft, even at supermarkets, alarms were placed on food specific...