A Virginia Beach captain, Jake Hiles, gave away his 708 pound (321 kg) state record bluefin to the people in his community. The fish had a 1.96 m girth and measured around 2.89m in length. The...
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Phillips Foods Launches New Refrigerated Yellowfin
The US seafood processor, Phillips Foods, will be rolling out a new refrigerated seafood line that includes Wild Caught Yellowfin Tuna. The fish is pole-and-line caught and the product will...
Rianxeira’s Light Tuna Line Awarded Flavor Of 2020
In Spain, Rianxeira’s light tuna line has been awarded the Flavour of the Year 2020 in the Sustainable category. Rianxeira is owned by the Spanish canned seafood company Jealsa. The products...
Court To Maltese Farmers: Release The Tuna
Two Maltese tuna farms have been ordered to release some illegally held bluefin back into the ocean after they exceeded the 2019 quota of just under 2,300 M/T. This happened after the ranchers...
May The ‘Tuna’ Be With You
It has been over 40 years since the first installment of George Lucas’ Star Wars opened in cinemas all around the world. The euphoria that followed was so big that it even reached the world of...
Canary Islands Bluefin Season 2020 To Start
The 2020 bluefin fishing season in the Canary Islands will start this week, on February 20, and will conclude on December 31 or until the quota is exhausted, which for the...
Spanish Supermarket Takes Out Tuna Snacks From Shelves
The Spanish supermarket Mercadona has removed from all its stores the tuna snacks from its private label brand Hacendado. The product, which consisted of tuna cubes, was...
Thai Union Donates Canned Tuna To Wuhan
Thai Union China has donated 52,000 cans of King Oscar tuna to the city of Wuhan, which has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 viral outbreak. The first shipment of canned products was...
MSC Faces Backlash For Promoting “Seagan”
MSC Netherlands and Belgium have come under fire for promoting 'Seagan', a term referring to a diet in which vegans occasionally supplement their meals with sustainable fish. The message was...
Bluefin Tagging Program Open To Catch & Release Irish Fishers
Charter vessel captains in the Irish coast can sign up to help with a Catch and Release Tagging (CHART) program for bluefin research in the Atlantic Ocean in the upcoming months. A maximum of...
ANF Banned From Boston Show Retracts Lawsuit Threats
Atlantic Natural Foods (ANF), the owner of Loma Linda vegan TUNO brand has taken back its previous threats to file a lawsuit against Diversified Communications, the organizer of Seafood Expo...
Ecuadorian Police Seizes Drugs From Tuna Containers
In one of the ports in Guayaquil, Ecuadorian authorities seized about 3.4 tons of cocaine from four containers with commodities such as canned tuna, palm oil, and scrap metal that were heading...
Libyan Govt Seeks Better Regulations For Tuna Fishing
The Libyan government is working to better regulate the nation's tuna exports in 2020. On February 11, the Ministry of Economy and Trade debated on reduced terms for granting fishing and...
Vanuatu Provides New Safety Equipment For Observers And Fishers
To improve the safety of fishermen and observers alike, the Department of Fisheries of Vanuatu has launched a comprehensive number of safety devices to be distributed this year. In a launch...
Man Picked-Up From Seiner During Storm Ciara
Last Sunday, in the midst of the Ciara storm, which has been hitting Europe for the past week, the French rescue boat ‘Ar Beg’ from SNSM Trévignon-Concarneau sailed out to pick-up a crew...
Japan & FAO Hold Workshop With Pacific Islands To Boost Tuna Fisheries
A regional project workshop was held in Nadi, Fiji on the first week of February to help boost Pacific coastal and small tuna fisheries. The workshop was over a three-year project that is...
Tuna Truck Robbed In Southern Italy
A tuna truck was violently robbed in Bari, a city in Southern Italy, early this week. The assault took place close to the Bari Sud motorway exit on Monday night at 8.30pm. A group of three to...
Colombian Coast Guard Captures Ecuadorian Boat For IUU Fishing
The Colombian coast guard has captured a flipper boat and arrested the three men on board for illegal fishing, reported El Universo. The authorities said that the accused were fishing about...
ICCAT Tuna Tagging Program Nears Target
According to the ICCAT, the Atlantic Ocean Tropical tuna Tagging Programme (AOTTP) is nearing its overall tagging target (97 percent) of 120,000 tropical tuna. This five-year project is aimed...
Maldives Donates 1 Million Tuna Cans To China
As a sign of goodwill, the Maldivian government has donated one million cans of canned tuna to the people of China, according to a Foreign Ministry press announcement. This comes at a time...