Small Island states in the Pacific are trying to develop a more sustainable tuna fishery. But the European Union (read Spain) does not like the idea, they say. Spain acts like an old-fashioned...
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John West Australia And WWF Partner On Conservation Projects
John West Australia, which is owned by Simplot Australia, has partnered up with World Wide Fund (WWF) to launch two new conservation projects regarding responsible seafood products in the...
ISSF Urges For 100% Observer Coverage On Atlantic Seiners
For the ICCAT’s regular meeting to be held on November 18th in Cape Town, South Africa, the ISSF urges ICCAT to extend the 100% observer coverage on large-scale purse seiners in its tropical...
30% Reduction In WCP Tuna Catches To Be Discussed
By Giff Johnson, published in Marshalls Island Journal A showdown that could decide the sustainability of the $7 billion Pacific tuna industry is expected at the annual meeting of the Western...
Vietnamese Tuna Export Volumes Showing Decline, Canned Up
Current numbers on Vietnamese tuna exports predict that 2013 could show a total sales result of USD 600 million, representing a decline compared to last year. Tuna exports reached USD 414.763...
Decommissioned Seiners Turned Into Luxury Yachts
Spanish shipbuilding company, Armon, is recycling old tuna vessels to make way for a new generation of seiners. Eventually boats that are no longer operational will be transformed into luxury...
Bolton Buying Into TriMarine, Stronger Tuna Power Block?
A vast majority of our readers consider that the recent Bolton Group acquisition would create a stronger tuna power block in the industry. In our most recent atuna.com readers' poll, as...
U.S. Considers Cap On Accidental Bluefin Catches
“No one wants to interact with bluefin,” said Terri Beideman, executive director of the Blue Water Fishermen’s Association, which represents about 120 tuna fishing vessels, most of them...
Worries In American Samoa Over Lower Tuna Duties To US Market
Multi and bilateral fisheries agreements between the United States and other countries have been said by the American Samoan governor to be hurting the country’s local tuna fishing industry,...
Tuna Poachers Strike Again
The Australian tuna farming industry has been struck with the problem of tuna poachers once again this season. Last year, damage caused by tuna poachers to the fishery was said by the...
US Canned Tuna Consumption Falls Another 7.7 Percent
Consumption of canned tuna across the United States dropped a considerable 7.7 percent from 2011 to 2012, according to yesterday’s release of NOAA’s Fisheries of the United States 2012...
Spain Wants 14 Percent Bigger Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quota
Spain will be requesting a 14 percent increase on its Atlantic bluefin tuna quota at the upcoming annual ICCAT meeting, starting November 18. The Cape Town hosted discussion will see Spain ask...
Ematum, Mozambique’s New State-Owned Tuna Fishing Company
New state-owned tuna company, Ematum, yielded 8.5 percent on the sale of Mozambique’s first dollar bond of USD 500 million for a seven-year issue. The proceeds will go towards the expansion of...
Larger S-Bluefin Quotas For Japan And Taiwan
Larger catch quotas for southern bluefin tuna have been granted to Taiwan and Japan for next year. Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency announced that after two years under strict regulations under an...
Asdomar’s “True Italian Tuna Quality”
The owners of the Italian tuna brand, ASDOMAR, market their brand as the “true Italian tuna quality”, in a time that the Italian economy is facing high employment and economic austerity. The...
Descendants Of The Bounty Mutineers To Ban Tuna Fishing
On land, nature reserves are ten a penny. About one-sixth of the earth’s land surface is protected in one way or another. Reserves at sea are much scarcer, covering, at most, 3%. But a...
Video Gives Insight In the High Tech War On IUU Tuna
Operation Kurukuru, a surveillance system operation designed to tackle illegal fishing throughout the Pacific, has produced results that could have the potential to lead to prosecution...
Ivory Coast “The Come-Back Kid”
Once the leading exporter of canned tuna to the European Union, and after having suffered heavily from Asian competition and -not so long ago- from political unrest and instability,...
PNG’s Ambition To Become World’s Second Biggest Processor
Philippine companies are planning to further gear up their investment and development activities in the Papua New Guinean (PNG) tuna industry which could contribute the country’s...
Ecuador Secures Zero Duty Into EU
Ecuadorian tuna exports to the European Union are to continue to enjoy zero percent duty tariff. EU’s new General Scheme of Preferences (GSP), which will see duty-free benefits for Ecuador’s...