After a delay of two years, the Seafood Expo Global started today for its first edition in Barcelona. For three days until April 28, around 1,560 exhibitors from 76 countries are present...
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Longliners Using The Hookpod, Good News For Seabirds
To prevent seabird bycatch, for the past two years New Zealand has allowed the use of the Hookpod in the country's tuna longline fisheries. To date, the vessels using the devices have reported...
‘You Know’ Campaign Appeals To Consumer’s Love For Tuna
Iconic Colombian canned tuna brand, Van Camp's, has launched a new campaign ‘You Know’. Van Camp's owned by SeaTech International has realized that repositioning its products was not necessary...
Tuna 2022 Bangkok Registration Opens With Limited Seats
The registration for the upcoming World Tuna Trade Conference and Exhibition in Bangkok is open. This edition will be a hybrid event that can be attended either in-person or virtually. Due to...
Oman Invests Millions In Yellowfin Fattening Farm
Oman will be the first to start a yellowfin fattening project to supply the global market with high-quality tuna. Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources (MAFWR)...
Tuna Skin Leather Shoes?
The skin waste from processing sustainable and responsible fished tuna has found a second life in ‘Pantuna’ tuna leather. Seafood company Barba and leather tanning firm Megisserie de la...
New Director For Europêche’s Tuna Group
Europêche, the leading trade body representing the fishing industry in Europe, has appointed Anne-France Mattlet as Director of its newly founded Tuna Group, which has been set up to advocate...
First Bluefin Catch Of The Season Reaches Finish Line
Taiwan Pingtung County’s traditional first tuna bluefin catch of the season was brought into port yesterday. The prize was awarded to the first boat which landed a bluefin weighing a minimum...
StarKist Opens New Corporate HQ In Virginia
Yesterday, StarKist Co. opened its new corporate and administrative headquarters in Reston, Virginia, after 10 years of allocation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new property of the 1917...
Portuguese Islands’ Tuna Fishery Receives Millions In Aid
The bluefin tuna catching season for the Portuguese fleet of Madeira and the Azores officially started on April 1 and, as every year, will last until October. About 30 tuna fishing vessels and...
DNA Sequencing Water Samples Gives More Accuracy For Monitoring Tuna
Spanish research organization, AZTI, has studied the potential of environmental DNA sequencing to analyze the diversity, abundance, and distribution of fish in the Bay of Biscay up to 2,000...
30 Of FSF’s Taiwanese Longliners Start Route Towards Sustainability
Taiwanese food service company Fue Shin Fishery Ltd.(FSF) and the NGO Ocean Outcomes (O2) are jointly starting two fishery improvements projects (FIPs) to improve the environmental oversight...
Tuna Vessel Caught Fire During Maintenance
On March 24, a tuna vessel caught fire during maintenance at a shipyard in Busan, South Korea. The ten people working on deck and the one worker inside the vessel came out all unharmed. The...
Echebastar’s Super-Frozen Tuna Production Keeps Growing
Over the years, the Spanish fishing company, Echebastar, has managed to increase its super-frozen yellowfin production. In 2021, it reached 3,000 M/T and this volume is expected to rise to...
World Tuna Conference 2022 Returns To In-Person Meeting
World Tuna 2022, the tuna trade conference and exhibition in Bangkok, will take place this year as a hybrid event that can be attended either in-person or virtually. Today, organizer InfoFish...
Zahara de los Atunes Tuna Route Comes Back After 2 Years
The Zahara de los Atunes Tuna Route in Spain is set to come back this year after having been cancelled for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will take place from May...
Japanese Longliner On Fire, Four Crew Members Missing
A Japanese-flagged tuna longliner caught fire 185 kilometers southeast off the coast of the island of Tanegashima on March 21. The vessel, ‘Yujinmaru No. 51’, had a crew of eight fishermen on...
Sicily Wants To Preserve Bluefin ‘Tonnare’
In Sicily, Italy, a new governmental initiative was recently launched to promote the dissemination, especially among young people, of knowledge about tuna and the many “Tonnare” (Italian...
Albo And Frinsa Expand Processing In Vigo
Spanish tuna processors Albo and Frinsa are expanding their canning facilities and have acquired space in the Dry Port of Salvaterra, 35 kilometers from Vigo. Albo bought 63,000 square meters...
Poll: Will Tuna Consumption Patterns Be Impacted By High Edible Oil Prices?
The global supply of sunflower oil has been severely impacted by the Russian-Ukraine war, as these nations are the world's main suppliers. On March 16, Atuna reported that there is a sunflower...