Want to build a better submarine? Check out fish first.
That's the idea behind RoboTuna. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge build robotic bluefin tuna and test them in a special tank. Uncovering the fish's...
The issue of mercury-contamination of canned tuna in California has reached an apex with the adoption of a resolution by the California Medical Association (CMA) last week urging the labeling of canned tuna. After reports of mercury poisoning of...
Western-European importers were advised by their national import associations today that the European Commission has now officially proposed duty reduction for the Asian Nations.
The EU commission made a proposal to alter the regulation on...
According to Dow Jones, Thai Union Frozen Products PCL (H.TUF), the world's second largest tuna producer, Monday said it expects net profit in 2003 to rise 20% from the previous year due to higher sales.
Thai Union President Thiraphong Chansiri...
Congressman Faleomavaega Eni recently introduced legislation for American Samoa only to either extend or make permanent the U.S. Internal Revenue tax code 936 due to expire in two years.
The Congressman describes the measure as a means "to save...
The Mexican tuna sector is confident that the matter regarding export of Mexican tuna to the United States will be solved favorably in the U.S. Federal Court next April 7th.
This trial will determine if the dolphin protection demand is continued -...
The Thai Commerce Minister Adisai Bodharamik told the Thai press yesterday that the EU had agreed to relax its tax conditions on tuna imports. He said this applied to a number of exporting countries, which had complained that the previous tax regime...
Most women and children in the United States have low levels of mercury in their blood, a new federal study says. However, about 8 percent of women have blood levels of mercury higher than the acceptable limit set by the U.S. Environmental...
The fight is over for the 300-pound bluefin tuna. It's been reeled in by an expert fisherman and hauled aboard the Calcutta, a 55-foot sport-fishing boat. As the fish lies on a plastic pad, a seawater hose is placed inside its mouth. Its staring...
Southern Bluefin tuna harvesting has begun in Port Lincoln with companies adopting different marketing strategies in anticipation of what could be a difficult year ahead. The uncertain global outlook coupled with the fragile Japanese economy and...
Tuna fishermen in the north of the Maldives Islands are refusing to venture out to fishing, rendering fisheries in the North of Maldives bad, while world oil prices grow worse.
According to Island Enterprises Managing Director ‘Maizan’ Umar Manik,...
The proposal that was submitted last Thursday by the European Commission for the introduction of 25,000 M/T canned tuna quota with a reduced 12% “Single Duty†tariff, for the Asian nations, does not contain any specific origin requirement concerning...
Tri-Marine International (Pte) Ltd. completed the previously announced sale of its tuna and swordfish loins and steak business to Far Ocean Sea Products Pte Ltd by handing over its Singapore production facility on 31 March.
Tri-Marine, who is one of...
The New Zealand company Sealord secretary Terry Horne said all its canned tuna product deliveries had been halted. The recall also affected Sealord canned tuna and its Salmon Sensations product, which are packaged in Thailand.
The scare followed a...
The Australian Fisheries 2002 report, released today by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, found Fisheries’ production climbed 1.8 percent to almost 233,350 tons, but its value fell to USD 1.45 billion in 2001-02. Japan remains the...
Importer of tuna and squid, Dosui Co., Ltd. is developing Bluefin farming activities in Mexico. At present the fattening of bluefin mainly takes place in the Mediterranean and Australia, because of the favorable conditions for its culture; Dosui...
A delegation from Poland recently visited with Ambassador Roberto Betancourt, President of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (ALCA), informed the Ecuadorian Cooperation for the Promotion of Exports and Investments (Corpei)>
The Polish...
Tuna Hake Fishing Corporation - one of South Africa's top 300 companies and a recognized leader in promoting real empowerment - has unveiled a bold plan to advance black empowerment and skills development in the fishing industry.
A Memorandum...
The companies that belong to the Association of Shipowners of Tuna Freezer Vessels (ANABAC), with its seat in Biscay, Spain will invest together 63 million euros in three new tuna boats, and will continue to renew its fleet, which has an average age...
In a press release supporting the introduction of Bumble Bee® Prime Fillet Solid White Albacore –a new, superior grade of canned albacore tuna- Christopher D. Lischewski, president, Retail Seafood Business Unit, ConAgra Foods, said that. "Bumble Bee...
A federal judge will rule within days on whether the Bush administration can loosen standards under which tuna sold in U.S. stores can be labeled "dolphin safe," an environmental group said on Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson is...
A white powder found in New Zealand in a carton of Sealord canned tuna, which sparked a contamination alert, with suspicion of its being cyanide or anthrax, has turned out to be flour.
The tuna import company Sealord halted deliveries of cartons of...
An international marine mammal protection group says it has confiscated a 13km long driftnet found in the mid-Pacific ocean. The crew of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was sailing from Auckland to Panama when they came...
Lately there has been a lot of press about the “second coming†of the retort pouch. Several industry pundits even have stated that in the next 3-5 years, the tin can will become a historical curiosity.
Others have theorized the retort pouch finally...
The Plenary session of the European Parliament today approved the tuna fishing agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kiribati, an agreement that will allow the European fleet, mostly Spanish tuna purse seiners, to capture tuna in...
The European Commission is likely to decide on the proposed compromise rate of 12 percent set by a World Trade Organization (WTO) mediator soon.
Philippine Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas II said in a statement that EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy...
Tuna fishermen, from Santa Rosa in Salinas, Ecuador, report that there is a band of pirates active along Ecuador’s coast. This, despite the Navy’s assurance that patrols have increased in the gulf of Guayaquil and other influential zones.
The...
In Madang, Papua New Guinea, RD Tuna Company is also venturing into rice farming at the 860-hectare Vidar Plantation. The company has started clearing the bush over an initial six hectares out of 100 hectares that is to be planted with rice under...
The Bush Administration and the Mexican tuna industry suffered a sensitive defeat in a lawsuit regarding the change of the ‘Dolphin Safe’ definition for canned tuna. The case, which was started by the Earth Island Institute, and eight other...
Spanish canned exports registered, in 2002, an average reduction of 11% with respect to the previous year, with a total of 117,000 tons, volume which corresponds to 429 million euros turnover to the export markets of this important product sector of...
Contrary to some recent news reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not issued a new advisory on methylmercury consumption. FDA's current advisory regarding methylmercury and fish consumption still stands.
The current...
"What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" Police were called to help New Zealand Nelson harbor authorities yesterday after a tuna boat skipper allegedly became so drunk he could not navigate his vessel into port.
Senior Sergeant Stu Koefoed said...
An "airbag" for tuna boats past the latest tests prior to being commercialized.
The system, developed by the Galician Company Kafloat, is specifically applicable to avoid the sinking of vessels due to water route. The product operates in a similar...
California authorities have sued 20 national restaurant chains for allegedly failing to warn patrons about high levels of mercury in some fish (including tuna steaks), an action the chains said they requested themselves, to avoid being sued by...
David and Peter Truitt knew their Salem cannery would never be the next Del Monte, so 25 years ago they took a chance on an emerging technology: cooked foods packed in flexible pouches and trays that don’t require refrigeration. In the days before...
According to U.K. press fish lovers will soon have a guarantee that the tuna they buy is dolphin friendly thanks to a new tracking device and verification system that ensures tuna is labeled correctly.
Mr. Bashir Khanbhai, Conservative Euro MP for...
Spanish tuna boats continue to operate in the fishing grounds, which are close to Iraq war zone, reported Spanish fleet recently.
Several reefer carriers, which are based in Vigo, transport fish from the proximity of the war zone. Proximity refers...
According to a report by Infofish, most of the unprofitable Russian tuna purse seine and long line fleet has been broken-up and sold off.
With a new policy the Russian Fisheries Committee ( RFC) is planning to return to global tuna fishing, and...
Main Mexican political parties considered the recent new restrictions on tuna exports to the United States, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson, as a first reprisal of the United States against Mexico because of its opposition...
About 200 tuna handliners have asked Philippine government authorities to immediately delineate the area where the 6,000 square kilometers exclusive zone for tuna handliners will be located. They said the area should be off limits to purse seiners,...
The U.S. Tuna Foundation selected Marriner Marketing Communications out of 20 other agencies to run the marketing account for the billion-dollar domestic U.S. tuna industry.
The Columbia firm will handle advertising and public relations for the U.S....
The World Wildlife Foundation’s South Pacific Program has launched two brochures aimed at stepping up its Whale Sanctuaries Campaign.
The first, titled “Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises in the Pacificâ€, is targeted at raising awareness of these...
Seychelles’ request for the EU (European Union) to make an in-depth study into the impact on the economies of ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) countries, of the proposal made by the WTO to reduce duties on tuna from Asian Nations, was rejected by the...
A senior official from the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged local fishermen yesterday to abide by international "rules of the game" to avert unnecessary troubles and perils.
Lin Sung-huan, director of the ministry's East-Asian and...
The demolition of Spanish cannery Frinsa’s plant number one, located since 1961 in the urban center of Ribeira in Galicia might only take place after the summer.
The remaining parcel will make way to a macro-urbanization project with residence,...
Mexico announced that it will try to revert the recent ruling of the U.S. Federal judge on the ‘Dolphin Safe’ definition for canned tuna, which again prevents the export of Mexican tuna to the United States, in yet another episode of the aged...
Spain’s European Popular Group (PPE) spokesman for the Fishery Commission, Daniel Varela, asked the European Commission for explanations on the possible EU market opening to imports of transformed tuna products from the Asian countries.
The...
Ecuador’s tuna sector has experienced a decrease in export sales of canned tuna to the United States. The sales of Ecuadorian tuna reached 14.6 million dollars between January and February of 2002, but dropped to 3.86 million, in the same period of...
American Samoa's House of Representatives has rejected legislation to impose a tax on tuna off-loaded in Pago Pago from foreign vessels.
The Pacific News Service, Pacnews, reports the Senate bill would have imposed a 20 per cent import tax on...
The quality and freshness of fish, especially tuna, critically depends on temperature control.
Such was emphasized by experts who are currently conducting a one-week training on fish handling and hazard analysis to some 33 representatives of various...
The Samoan Fono is calling on the U.S. Congress to maintain and keep in full force a federal tax incentive due to expire in two years, that benefits the local canneries.
The Concurrent Resolution expresses American Samoa's full support of the...
The bankruptcy of grocery distributor Fleming Cos. Inc. is having a ripple effect on its food suppliers as companies ranging from Kraft Foods Inc. to Hershey Foods feel the pinch.
Fleming, a major U.S. wholesale distributor of food to supermarkets,...
Wild Oats Markets, Inc., based in Boulder, Colorado, announced that it will stock EcoFish sustainable seafood in all its frozen seafood departments. The products are frozen and vacuum packed. 'EcoFish and Wild Oats is a natural partnership,'...
According to the Kyodo News at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, the catch of bonitos from around mid-April has exceeded 70 tons per day on average; almost double the amount for the same period last year, informed industry officials.
The arrival of...
The Mexican tuna-canning group Grupomar will be one of the investors in a new naval repair shipyard in the Mexican port of Manzanillo; a project that will generate about 100 jobs.
The Spanish company, Bilbao Shiprepair Centre, will create the...
The Australian tuna farming industry each year required between 50,000 and 60,000 tons annually to feed its farmed tuna.
Now new fish factories are popping up around Australia’s main tuna farming port, Port Lincoln, as the local fishing companies...
Spanish canneries have requested that the European Union lifts the ban on fish meal.
The Spanish fish canning industries pushed earlier this week before the European Parliament the lifting of the prohibition on the use of fish meal to feed pork and...
Little Mauritius is threatened like never before. Sugar: Under the sugar protocol with the European Union, it exported all its sugar at four times the world price. This largely explains the Mauritius economic miracle. Another important source of...
According to publications in the Spanish press, the Philippine authorities managed to block a proposal of the EU to lower the maximum level of the lead content in seafood. The document which was presented to the Codex Committee on Food Additives...
The Mexican tuna fishing sector asked their Government to restrain imports of canned tuna.
Earlier this week, the fishing industrialists demanded that the authorities entirely stop the imports of canned tuna, mainly from the United States, but also...
SARS hysteria is also spreading to Spain, a country where no infections by SARS have been reported yet. In the harbor of Barbate, in the Spanish province of Cadiz, the local population fears the import of the SARS virus.
Barbate, an important port...
Spending an afternoon chatting with these young entrepreneurs is like taking a crash course in the ins and outs of the tuna business. If you like trivia, you’d be amazed at the various tuna facts Alvin could tell you. For instance, not everybody...
Following the call by the Mexican Tuna industry on the local government to stop the imports of low priced canned tuna from Ecuador, the newly appointed ambassador of Ecuador in Mexico, Francisco Herrera, recently assured that Ecuador wants to...
Close to 700 employees of the Pacific Fishing Company Limited at Levuka, Fiji will have their first pay rise in 20 years - soon. This follows a nine-page award by ad hoc arbitrator Gyaneshwar Lala when he found a dispute between PAFCO employees...
In response to a question in a Barbados Newspaper on whether or not cats should be fed canned tuna, the expert -a local veterinarian (vet)- had this to say: “Unfortunately, canned tuna contains an enzyme that destroys a very important vitamin for...
The fishing rights of the U.S. tuna purse seiner fleet operating from American Samoa, could be under threat because of the refusal by American Samoa to participate in the Pacific Island Countries Free Trade Agreement or PICTA.
The agreement, which...
The WTPO members,
Recalling and reaffirming that the objective of WTPO is to foster the general application of the principles of responsible and sustainable fishing to enable a balance between the conditions of the tuna resources in the world and...
In a time when many tuna professionals have started doubting the strength of the WTPO (World Tuna Purse Seiner Organization), the tuna boat-owners organization took steps to get its act back together. An urgently complied amended resolution has been...
The Philippines and Thailand are not yet assured of a favorable vote from the 15-member European Union on the proposal of a World Trade Organization (WTO) mediator to cut half tariff on canned tuna exports during the meeting of the European...
The construction of new storage facilities for Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos has commenced in the wharf of Cadiz, Spain. The building will consist of space for the storage, distribution and sales of frozen and processed fish. Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos,...
General Santos City (GenSan) and the surrounding area called Socsksargen (consisting of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and Gen. Santos City) is the undisputed tuna capital of the Philippines. At the heart of the industry is the General...
The Indonesian tuna canning industry, which is a natural export earner for Indonesia, complained that the capacity utilization rate of canned fish products is only 30 percent of the annual 400,000-ton installed capacity.
Roy Harnuputra, the export...
The business sector in the Philippines has raised the alarm over the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic saying it might trigger an export embargo for the country's local products, particularly tuna. Manuel Yaphockun,...
Ten top performing companies in General Santos City, Philippines were recently cited by the provincial office of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The citation was based on a survey conducted recently by DTI. Topping the list is RD Group...
