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Does FDA’s New Traceability Rule Uphold GDST Standards?
The new Food Traceability Final Rule (FTFR) introduced by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be a game changer. A part of the "new era of smarter food safety blueprint", the...
Pacific Island Flagged Vessels Now Supply Half Of Thai Canners’ Needs
Nauru has become the second-largest supplier of frozen whole-round tuna to Thai processors and Tuvalu turned out to be the emerging supplier in Q3. A compilation of all Pacific Island vessels...
Europeans’ Self-Sufficiency For Tuna Production On Downward Trend
Tuna is still the most consumed fish in the EU with Europeans eating 3.06 kg per capita in 2020 but this was a slight drop from 2019 levels. This is still well above the second and third-place...
Mexican Brands Again In Row Over Use Of Excess Hydrolyzed Protein
Mexican tuna brands are in the news again for adding excessive amounts of soy-based hydrolyzed proteins to their canned tuna, revealed Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) in a recent...
Ecuador Issues First Blue Bond To Finance Tuna Conservation
On November 22, the first blue bond in the Latin American region was issued by Ecuador. World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) reported the placement through the Ecuadorian Banco...
EU Tuna And Seafood Prices Soar In 2022
European consumer food prices have been rising since 2015, with the overall food value peaking in 2022. Eurostat's 'Food price monitoring tool' has been tracking data on food prices...
SolTuna To Expand To More Shelves In The UAE
SolTuna canned tuna brand from the Solomon Islands is expanding in the UAE. Since 2020, it has a deal with Abu Dhabi-based Talent SeaFoods Trading. The distributor recently...
Despite EPO Veda, Manta Skipjack Is Holding Steady
Skipjack trading at the Manta port continues at record-high levels. Despite canners' efforts to reduce the price, the value per ton of fish has remained the same since last month. This is...
Tuvalu – The Emerging Supplier For Thai Canners
This year, Tuvalu-flagged purse seiners managed to massively expand their tuna trade with Thai packers. This tiny Pacific Island nation has become the emerging supplier of skipjack to the...
Japan Airlines Serves Plant-Based Tuna In First Class
Japan’s second-largest air service, Japan Airlines, is serving BettaF!sh plant-based tuna in a wrap to first- and business-class passengers on flights between Tokyo and London. The...
Pacific Islands Working Hard To Get Foothold In China
China is looking towards increasing its business dealings with tuna-rich Pacific Island nations and a Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) is saying that there is always a willingness by...
Nauru Second-Largest Supplier Of WR To Thai Canners
Processors in Thailand maintained their buying of frozen whole round tuna in the first nine months of this year. The total trade amounted to a whopping USD 1.03 billion, mainly driven by...
NFI President & US Seafood Pioneer John Connelly Has Passed Away
John Connelly, former President of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and a pioneer in the American seafood trade for over twenty years, has passed away at the age of sixty-one....
Spanish Processor Stopped Operations After Complaint Over Tuna
Spanish processor Coinba is set to resume operations after it had to stop production due to a health alert issued in Italy last week. This followed a complaint registered against a...
Pacific Islands Continue Increasing Thai Canned Tuna Imports
Pacific Island nations continued to increase their buying of canned tuna from Thai processors this year. In the first nine months, they raised their imports by over 40 percent compared to last...
EU Continues Waiving Origin Rule For 8,000 M/T Of Canned Tuna From Africa
Authorities in Brussels have given the green light to continue to waive the rules of origin for canned tuna and tuna loins from the Eastern and Southern Africa States (ESA) into the EU. This...
WCPFC Members Ignore Voice Of The Market On Harvest Control Rules
The WCPFC19 is all set to begin in over a week and over 25 delegate countries are expected to participate. But at the roundtable meeting organized by the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) in Danang,...
Vietnam’s Tuna Exports To Japan Reach USD 31 Million
Vietnam’s tuna exports to Japan experienced a massive increase in sales in the third quarter, eventually pulling up the overall cumulative trade value for the first nine months of the year....
Supreme Court’s Ruling Means No Way Out For StarKist In Price-Fixing
On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected StarKist’s appeal to toss out the class certification of tuna buyer groups in a price-fixing scandal that shocked the country in 2015. The...