The tension within the European tuna sector is building up due to the amount of duty-free frozen pre-cooked loins allowed in the EU and the Chinese dumping this product in the market. The...
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Mexicans Triple Volume In Booming 2020 US Canned Tuna Import Market
In 2020, canned tuna buyers in the US imported the highest volumes in recent history. Last year, retailers’ demand skyrocketed to satisfy consumers’ needs resulting from...
Boston Seafood Show Still To Take Place In-Person
Seafood Expo North America has called for proposals for its conference which is scheduled to take place from July 11-13, 2021, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition...
Tuna Seiner Operators Facing Surge In Fuel Costs From Oil Rally
Over the weekend, the global oil benchmark, the Brent Crude, climbed to the highest level in over a year. It was bolstered by several factors including a more positive economic outlook with...
British Trade Now Also Suffers From Strict EU Seafood Import Rules
British seafood merchants are starting to experience the extensive and costly process of exporting as a third country - non-member state - to the EU. The UK left the economic bloc a year ago....
Whole Foods Market Offers Vegan Tuna Salad By The Pound
The American supermarket chain Whole Foods Market has started offering a plant-based tuna replacement salad behind their counters. The tuna alternative ingredient is under the Good Catch...
Americans Paying More For Thai Pet Food Than Canned Tuna
The export market of Thai canned tuna pet food expanded during 2020 and reached the highest point in at least the past 10 years. Although the leading importer, Japan, continued to reduce its...
Low Catches & EU Demand Keeping Manta Price High
The price at which whole round frozen skipjack is traded at the port of Manta in Ecuador has remained at high levels for the past couple of months. This dynamic is abnormal for this time of...
Drop In Q4 EPO Catches Explain Current Peak Prices
Tuna fleets in the EPO were catching record-high levels of tuna during the first half of 2020, which might have led to the belief that the peak volumes of 2019 would be surpassed. However,...
Subway Makes Social Media Battle Ground On Baseless Legal Claims
Subway has taken to social media channels with a clever marketing strategy to fight against “baseless claims” that the tuna in its sandwiches is not real. The company is facing a lawsuit filed...
2020 Skipjack Deliveries To Bangkok Surged After Q4 Overturn
During most of 2020, skipjack raw material arriving at Thai ports was low compared to the previous year. By September, it looked like the year was going to end with less tuna offloaded in...
EU Alerts: Maldivian Tuna Recall Due To High Histamine
Throughout Europe, authorities brought a total of three tuna-related issues before the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in January. Two of these incidents involved products with...
Thai Packers 2020 Raw Material Sourcing Breaks Barrier
It has been five years since the annual sourcing volume of tuna raw material by Thai canners broke through the 700,000 M/T barrier. However, last year the COVID-19 pandemic drove the demand...
Subway Angry Over “Baseless” Claims In Tuna Sandwiches Lawsuit
Subway has expressed its anger over the lawsuit filed by a group of California consumers alleging that the company’s tuna sandwiches did not contain real tuna. The restaurant chain said these...
Thai Canners Increase Supply To More Than 20 Countries
Last year Thai processors increased their exports to major and small markets. Over the past couple of days, Atuna Analyst has been dissecting the data from Thai Customs. The final part...
PNG Halved Thai Canned Tuna Imports In 2020
Thai canned tuna shipped overseas experienced a modest increase during 2020. However, this was mainly visible only for the top major destinations while the processors' foothold in many smaller...
Container Crisis Confronts Canners With Cost Explosion
The global container supply chain shortage is causing plenty of headaches for tuna exporters given that it is causing shipping rates to skyrocket. As Atuna has previously reported, there is a...
Joe Biden Was Promoter Of ‘Dolphin-Safe’ Mexican Tuna Embargo
It is too early to tell how the administration of the new US president, Joe Biden, will impact the national and international tuna industry. However, he has a history with the sector as in...
President Biden Turning Around Policies Good For US Seafood Sector?
On the first day of taking office, US President Joe Biden reversed several major policies of the former Trump administration such as beginning the process of rejoining the 2015 Paris...
Cape Verde Tuna Plant Paralyzed Due To Missing EU Waiver
Cape Verde's government submitted a request to the EU to temporarily waive the rules of origin for its canned tuna exports. The economic bloc has yet to react to the petition, but the...