The albacore tuna fishing crisis in Fiji is likely to cause drastic problems for food supply in the country. The scaling down of the domestic tuna fleet could see a lack of up to 4/5,000 tons...
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Key Meetings In Brussels On Zero Duty Thai Tuna
Meetings taking place this week in Brussels will see the EU Fisheries Committee discuss various topics in the tuna industry, one of which is expected to be the potential for a free trade...
Echebastar Launches Super Seiner “Izaro”
Construction has been completed on the Izaro super seiner, owned by the Spanish Echebastar Group. The USD 39 million and 1,900 ton tuna purse seiner has been built at the Zamakona shipyard in...
Costa Rica Connects Price Of Licenses To Landing Locally
The charging or not charging of tuna catch tax to foreign vessels is dividing Costa Rican boat owners. Currently, tax is eliminated when selling the catch to national companies, but it has...
PAFCO Could Take A Hit From Albacore Scale-Back
The scaling back of the albacore tuna fishing fleet in Fiji is likely to have a dramatic impact on Pacific Fishing Company Limited (PAFCO), a major tuna cannery in Fiji and the Pacific. The...
NFI: Misinformation Spread On Marine Mammals By NRDC
Tuna for Tomorrow, a campaign to combat misinformation on sustainable stocks of tuna fished by America’s leading canned tuna brands has slated a recent CNN post on the killing of marine...
Will 2014 Witness Last Year’s Peaked Skipjack Prices? What Did You Think?
Opinion was split this time around on our atuna.com homepage poll. Asking “Will 2014 skipjack prices recover to 2013 peak levels?” divided our voters, leaving a nearly 50/50 result. Looking to...
American Samoa Community Involved In “Buy American” Tuna
Former American Samoa Governor, Togiola Tulafono, believes that, in the current battle between US tuna canneries on a move to amend the Buy American provision so that canned and pouched tuna...
EU Fisheries Policy: “We Only Fish Within Scientifically Safe Margins”
Europe has managed to radically change its fisheries policy and make it more sustainable, the relevant Commissioner Maria Damanaki told the European Parliament Friday. Damanaki said that...
Future Of Industry Topic Of INFOFISH – Tuna 2014
The future sustainability of the global tuna industry will be at the core of this year’s INFOFISH-TUNA 2014 Conference, the largest gathering of tuna industry players from all over the world....
Lischewski Steps Down, O’Scannlain New NFI Chairman
As Chris Lischewski, CEO of Bumble Bee, steps down as Chairman of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), Fortune Fish & Gourmet President and CEO, Sean O’Scannlain steps up to the plate...
Rating Agency: Price Fall Positive For Thai Union
The company and senior debenture rating of Thai Union Frozen Products Plc (TUF) has been rated by TRIS Rating at “AA-“, while the outlook for the firm has been regarded as “stable”. The rating...
Fiji’s Solander Scales Down Albacore Operations
Solander is one of two major Fiji fishing companies that have been forced to shut down the majority of their operations. Mainly catching albacore tuna, the company within the albacore price...
No Management And Conservation In Trade Agreements: Says FFA
James Movick, the DG of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), has stressed that technical conservation and management elements for fisheries should not be detailed in a trade...
Aqorau: EU Involved In “Systematic IUU Fishing”
Dr. Transform Aqorau, PNA Director, has said that the European Union tuna fishing fleet is involved in a serious case of systematic Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and...
A 360 Pound Squid Netted Instead Of Yellowfin
The crew of a Japanese fishing boat was hoping to haul in a large catch of yellowfin tuna. Instead, what they encountered was a 360-pound squid. The fisherman, Shigenori Goto, and the crew of...
Albacore Crisis Forces Fiji Fish To Lay Off 120 Staff
The albacore price and oversupply crisis is also being felt hard in Fiji. The Fiji Fish Marketing Group reports it has been forced to lay off around 120 employees after the company has had to...
Drop In Somali Piracy, Less Tuna Vessels Attacked
Somali piracy has recently dropped to significantly lower levels, following a peak in 2011. According to a maritime watchdog, there were only 15 incidents of piracy attacks by Somalian pirates...
Renewed Confidence For American Samoa Albacore Longliners
The American Samoa Government has acted and shown support for the territory’s longline albacore fleet, which put ‘For Sale’ signs on close to 20 vessels docked at the main harbor. After facing...
USA Canned Tuna Imports Fall To Seven Year Lows
In 2013, canned tuna imports into the US fell to seven year lows. From June to November 2013, the amount of canned tuna shipped into the US has hit lower levels than imports of the last six...