Move To Secure U.K. Albacore Tuna Fishery Pays Offff
22 July 2008
United Kingdom A move by one of Britain’s main fish suppliers last month to secure a vital United Kingdom tuna fishery is already paying dividends.
M&J Seafoods, which has operations in Scotland and the Humber, recently struck a deal with two Cornish skippers for regular catches of Albacore Tuna which they had been struggling to sell on the local market. The company has just reported that landings of 840 fish sold out across the country very quickly and the boats will be back with more fish on Sunday.
Meanwhile, M&J says the price of ‘warm water’ Indian Ocean tuna are rising rapidly on European markets because of increased demand from Far East countries - a factor which has been pushing up the price of other foodstuffs.
