Processors in Thailand have been replenishing their frozen whole round skipjack inventories after last year's spike in production made them fully utilize their cold store...
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Manta Skipjack Shoots Up At Start Of First EPO Veda
Buyers at the Manta port have been closing their tuna deals at prices much higher than in the past months. The situation has been exacerbated by the start of the first EPO veda combined with...
Thai Union’s Share Price Skyrocketing In 2021
Buyers that had confidence in Thai Union’s (TU’s) performance and stepped in at the beginning of 2021 saw their loyalty rewarded. The company’s shares have skyrocketed by 60 percent...
Trial Against Credit Suisse Over Tuna Bonds Gets Date In London Court
A lawsuit filed against Swiss bank Credit Suisse will be heard in the London High Court in September 2023. The financial body is being sued by creditors over the USD 2 billion in...
Bangkok Prices Soaring While COVID-19 Crisis Hits Thailand
The skipjack price at the Bangkok port has further grown despite setbacks in Thai canned tuna production capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Processors are working at a lower than usual...
‘Cute’ Real Tuna Sausage A Hit Among Chinese Children
The Chinese brand Yucuti is focusing on the children’s food market with its new 'Cute' tuna sausage. In the first month after its debut, it achieved sales of over CNY 1 million (USD 154,328)....
Global Tuna Demand Seriously Depressed In H1
The global demand for canned tuna during the first half of 2021 (H1) has been much softer than in the previous year when retailers filled their inventories as a result of the COVID-19...
Thai Union Realizes H1 Growth In A Slow Market
Thai Union Group (TU) has published its 2021 half-year results reporting a sales increase of 4.4 percent. This is a remarkable performance considering that canned tuna makes up around 40...
Canadians Being Served Cheap Fish As Expensive Albacore
The problem of misrepresenting tuna and other seafood in restaurants and grocery stores across Canada persists. This is what Oceana Canada’s latest fraud investigation revealed. All albacore...
Disappointing StarKist Sales Depress Dongwon Industries’ Q2 Results
The 2021 second-quarter (Q2) results of Dongwon Industries were unexpectedly disappointing. Temporary factors in the fishing business and a delay in the estimated improvements of StarKist were...
Readers Disagree With Good Catch’s Campaign Against Subway
None of Atuna’s readers approved of Good Catch’s campaign against Subway. The initiative consisted of handing out their tuna-free products from vans outside Subway locations in London, New...
StarKist Applies Tuna Successes To Other Products
The success of tuna in pouches inspired StarKist to also launch ready-to-eat chicken chunks in pouches. The brand announced a new item which is again inspired by tuna. This time it is pouched...
Dongwon Expands Its Healthy Fast Food Chain
Today, Dongwon Group has opened its fifth CrispyFresh salad café at a spot that is easily accessible and where a lot of people pass by - a subway station in Seoul. The food shop only serves...
World’s Second Largest Tuna Industry Going For The Extra Mile
Ecuador’s tuna industry is researching its chances to expand in the global tuna market and enlarge its competitiveness. Last week in Manta, the Prefecture of Manabí and Global Trade Consulting...
Dongwon Innovates Further With Tuna Protein Bar
Korean tuna brand Dongwon has been a market leader for four decades and in order to keep current consumers happy and especially attract younger people, it has been stepping up its game by...
Maldives Wants UK To Grant 0% Duty For Its Tuna Products
Maldives hopes to export its tuna products duty-free to the UK as negotiations are ongoing between the two countries. On Tuesday, the country’s Minister of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and...
Biggest Publicly Traded Korean Tuna Firms’ Shares Surging During 2021
Korean tuna fishing companies have been strongly recovering from the massive blow that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt their stock values. The first signs of improvement appeared around March and...
Echebastar Wants To Expand Its Ultra-Frozen Tuna Supply
The Spanish fishing company, Echebastar, has been betting on ultra-freeze technology to keep its tuna catches as fresh as possible from sea to plate. The firm's seiners operating in the...
Mythical Creature Fights Over Mega Tuna In New Ad
Filipino brand, Mega Tuna is on a roll when it comes to delivering bizarre and fantastical ads. This time around, it has chosen to go with a video campaign featuring the manananggal, a...
Middle East Buying More Vietnamese Tuna
Vietnamese tuna exporters are trying to expand their foothold in the Middle East, and the latest data shows that they are succeeding. The region has become one of the key clients for the Asian...