Injected tuna has been making up a major 85 percent share of all tuna sold on Europe’s fresh fish counters, according to the Managing Director of one EU tuna trading firm. Jurgen Smet, the...
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Thieves Ship Stolen NIRSA Tuna To Peru
After thieves reportedly stole a large volume of canned tuna products from a NIRSA delivery driver, most of the goods have been recovered by Ecuadorian police just across the Peruvian border....
Immediate Halt In Injecting Tuna After EU Warning
The production of fresh yellowfin tuna meat, injected with vegetable extracts containing nitrites to enhance the color, has stopped almost immediately following a warning letter on the...
Injected Extract In Yellowfin Is Fraud; Warns Brussels
The European Commission has warned the tuna industry that injecting yellowfin tuna with vegetable extracts containing nitrites to enhance the color of the fish is illegal in the EU...
Filipino Interest In Tri Marine Samoa Plant
Following the “indefinite” closure of Tri Marine’s American Samoa-based tuna processing plant, reports from local press state that the owner of a Filipino firm has toured the facility with...
Organic Tuna?
Conservas Serrats, an artisanal seafood processing and distribution firm based in Spain’s Basque Country, has launched a new range of tuna products that it calls organic. The company places an...
Anova US’ Smoked Tuna Insurance Claim Denied
A claim by US tuna firm, Anova Foods LLC, arguing that it was bullied into paying half of its settlement fees to Hawaii International Seafood Inc., after a patent dispute, has been denied. In...
Cannery Workers Get Salary Rise Promise
An agreement has been signed between Alimentos Polar management and the workers at the firm’s Atún Margarita tuna canning plant in Sucre State, Venezuela, after three months of demonstrations...
PAFCO – Bumble Bee Albacore Deal About To Expire
The Fiji based seafood processor Pacific American Fish Company (PAFCO) is trying to renew its albacore agreement with US firm Bumble Bee for another 10 years, as its current deal expires next...
Entrepreneurs Get Green-Light To Start Micro Canneries
The first regional canning training in the PNA has completed and returned 13 participants that are now qualified and able to operate in their own micro canneries, in a move that is designed to...
Atunlo’s New Plant Boosts Revenue
Spanish based tuna firm Atunlo is expecting a sales increase of 25 percent this year, aided by its newly opened Cape Verde processing plant. Atunlo, the united project between Spanish firms...
Tuna Players Join Innovation Focus At SIAL 2016
The largest food innovation exhibition in the world is taking place in Paris this week, with many major tuna companies present. The 51st bi-annual food exhibition SIAL (Salon International...
The Impact Of Tri Marine’s Samoa Shutdown
The shutdown of Tri Marine’s Samoa Processing Plant, announced last week, leaves the future of hundreds of workers in American Samoa uncertain, as well as the future ownership and use of the...
Thai Tuna Exports Face Flat Growth
Despite the expectation that many Thai export markets will grow stronger in the remaining months of the year, the seafood market, including tuna, has a steady forecast. Exports of many...
Jordanian Wants To Open Indonesian Cannery
A Jordanian investor has expressed interest in opening a tuna cannery in Gorontalo in Indonesia. Iyad Al Shorafa, a member of a Middle East trade delegation participating in an...
Tri Marine Shuts Down Samoa Plant “Indefinitely”
The Tri Marine Samoa Tuna Processor (STP) cannery in American Samoa is to halt production indefinitely. The company’s 800 employees were informed yesterday of the decision to suspend...
Why Open A Katsuobushi Plant In France?
Japanese cuisine is not a new trend in Europe as sushi has been growing rapidly in popularity in the last 15 years, with statistics showing that there are around 16,000 sushi restaurants...
PNA Trains Micro Canners To Boost Food Security From Bycatch
With a push to improve Pacific island food security at the project’s core, entrepreneurs in the PNA are being trained on creating micro canneries, which will process the substantial volumes of...
5,000 Ton Coldstorage Opens In Spain
Frigalsa opened a freezer storage in Beiramar, Vigo, this week, allowing the implementation of the agreement between the Spanish coldstorage logistics company and tuna processor Atunlo. Atunlo...
Two More Retailers Sue “Big 3” Over Price Fixing
Two more plaintiffs have joined the US antitrust case, filing a complaint in California that accuses the Big 3 tuna brands of conspiring to fix the prices of canned tuna during the period...