The rush among EU canners to clear duty free pre-cooked tuna loins is slowing, with buyers becoming more cautious, with just under 1,800 tons left before full exhaustion By January 10th,...
Tuna Trade News
Tuna Forgotten As Americans Eat More Fish?
US seafood imports have hit a record high, but a year on year slump in canned tuna volumes reaching the national market sees the product hopefully failing to benefit from the trend. Hitting...
TU Scores Hattrick On Investor Satisfaction
Thai Union has taken home the Stock Exchange of Thailand’s (SET’s) Best Investor Relations Award for the third year in a row, rewarding the canned tuna giant’s efforts to keep investor...
Falling Consumption Hits France’s Tuna Brands
A notable slip in the volume of canned tuna products reaching the French market last year (Jan-Oct) comes within a wider trend of falling seafood consumption in the country. However, in the...
TU CEO Earns French Knighthood
The CEO of leading canned tuna producer, Thai Union, has received the French “Chevalier de la Légion d’ Honneur” medal, a knighthood in the highest decoration in France. Thiraphong Chansiri...
Are PNG’s Brexit Fears Exaggerated?
Officials in PNG have already aired concerns over Brexit and the possibility of losing free tuna trade with the UK, and now an Australian economist states that the Pacific nation’s...
EU Opening Doors For Locked Out Mexico
As the future of trade between Mexico and the US is in a state of uncertainty, accelerated talks with the EU that could result in thousands of product lines becoming tariff free, might be the...
Tsukiji Saga: Can Move Still Happen?
The saga over the relocation of the Tsukiji market, famed for its tuna auctions, has brought with it yet another controversy. Groundwater tests at the new location of Toyosu have revealed that...
IUU Fish Entering EU Market “Easily”
There are still avenues in which IUU seafood can easily enter the EU market, according to new research, which believes the problem lies with the fact that Member States lack a common...
Shrinking Sales No Impact On UK’s Top 2
While canned tuna retail sales in the country have been spiraling downwards, the UK’s top supplying nations have gone unaffected, with their 2016 volumes (Jan-Oct) actually showing...
Where Will The SKJ Price Hit Its Peak?
This time around we’re asking Atuna readers to react to the following standpoint: Bangkok SKJ Price Will Peak At USD 1,800 With news that the whole round skipjack price in Bangkok touched...
Opinion Clear On Predicting Prices
Atuna readers were asked this time around to share their opinion on the standpoint: Tuna Raw Material Prices Can Be Predicted The poll followed from the announcement that Dr. Patrice...
US Retailer Tackles “Complex” Canned Tuna
A year after meeting sustainability commitments for its fresh and frozen seafood, US retailer, Hy-Vee, has now included shelf stable tuna in its ‘Seafood Procurement Policy’. The firm has...
SKJ Price: Heading For Critical Reference Point?
The consistent rise in the Bangkok skipjack price that has played out for the past few months could soon take the level to a critical reference point, in which this volatile market will be...
World’s First MSC Pizza Restaurant
Finnish pizza chain Kotipizza is switching to 100 percent sustainable seafood, after becoming the world’s first pizza chain to achieve full MSC Chain of Custody certification, and the first...
Spanish Canners Concerned By Brexit Uncertainty
The unknown end to Britain’s EU exit route is causing Spanish canners some concern, with Anfaco-Cecopesca stating that less favorable tariff conditions with the country could significantly...
Price Fixing: Jail Time Likely For Bumble Bee Exec.
The first plea agreement of the US canned tuna price fixing case has been reached between former Bumble Bee executive Walter Cameron and the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In return for...
StarKist Takes Tuna Mascot To Court
StarKist is suing a Mexican tuna company for false advertising and unfair competition as it claims it has used an image on some products that is very similar to the Charlie the Tuna mascot,...
Thai Canners Lose Quarter Of EU Business
Thai canners have seen over a quarter of their EU canned tuna business evaporate, witnessing one of the biggest slips among all of the bloc’s suppliers. The latest stats in the books, (Jan-Oct...
Top 3 Growth Not Strong Enough For Thai Canners
Thai tuna canners have struggled to regain any chunk of lost export values in 2016, despite notable growth in their top three destination markets. From 2013-2015, the annual return on canned...