Source: Brunei FMSomali pirates who have wreaked havoc in the Gulf of Aden for merchant ships plying the East African waters, have unexpectedly boosted the fortunes of fishermen working in the coastal waters off Tanzania. Director of the world...
Source: Europa Press
Alimentaria 2010 closed its doors last Friday with a provisional figure of 140,542 professionals, a volume which is 8% higher than the initial forecast, and 4,000 exhibiting companies, said Alimentaria Exhibitions
These...
Source: IT NewsNew tech trial to measure the catch.
Australian Fisheries will trial stereo video technology to electronically measure the weight of up to 40,000 live southern bluefin tuna as they are transferred from tow cages to fish farms.The...
By AtunaDuring the last semester of 2009 the United Kingdom’s lower demand for canned tuna started to become evident and was recently confirmed by the European Union’s trade statistics released regarding the closed year.
U.K.’s total imports of...
Source: European Commission
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Mrs Maria Damanaki made clear last week that there will be no postponement in the implementation of the Mediterranean Regulation no. 1967/2006. Speaking at last week’s...
Source: Personal Liberty DigestConsuming foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids can significantly reduce a woman’s risk of developing endometriosis, a painful condition that causes sections of the womb lining to grow outside of the uterus, a new study...
Source: Solomon StarLetter to EditorRecent articles written to the Solomon Star concerning the quality of SOLTAI products needs further input. I present my personal opinions in a positive fashion.How fast our memories are to forget a few facts.1....
Source: The LogGuests dining at the Omelet Inn, in Long Beach, a popular breakfast spot for locals and boaters, receive more than a tasty meal when they step through the restaurant’s doors. Photos of hardy fishermen aboard tuna boats remind patrons...
Source: ReutersEuropean Union fishery sector subsidies worth billions of Euros since 2000 have increased the bloc's fleet capacity and fed the decline in fish stocks, a report by campaigners the Pew Environment Group said on Tuesday.About 17...
John West Moves Production Away from Australia to Thailand Source: The AustralianCans of tuna have been whizzing through the production line at Port Lincoln Tuna Processors for 38 years, but by June they will grind to a halt and end tuna canning in...
Source: EnnaharFour Algerians, including two officials of the Department of Fisheries and five Turks, accused of illegal fishing of bluefin tuna in Algerian waters, were sentenced Monday to 3 years in prison by a court of Annaba, said a judicial...
Source: Radio Australia NewsThe Palau Government says the tuna industry, if promoted domestically, can be another source of income for the country.Palau is currently drafting a piece of legislation to promote domestic fishing ventures for the nation...
Source: Taiwan News
Somali pirates attacked one Taiwanese fishing vessel, injuring one Indonesian crew member, and took control of another tuna longliner, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
The pirates chased the Jui Man Fa and...
Written by Natalia Freitas for Atuna.comRecently awarded with a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, the Western Fishboat Owners Association’s (WFOA) troll/jig and pole/line albacore tuna fishery expects to expand MSC-products’ demand in...
Source: Radio NZAmerican Samoa’s sole tuna canning operation is competing for staff with a program for disaster recovery work.The National Emergency Grant program or NEG hires cannery workers who lost their jobs when Samoa Packing’s Chicken of the...
Source: Trading MarketsMaruha Nichiro Seafoods Inc. said Monday that its tuna farming operations have obtained Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS) certification for food traceability, a first for any such operations in Japan. The certification...
Source: Mindanao ExaminerTuna catch is declining in the southern Philippines as the warm climate continues to affect the ocean’s temperature.Fishermen said their catch declined the past months and they blamed the weather phenomenon known as El Nino....
Source: The ExaminerShoppers who buy fish should ensure they have not purchased frozen “Whole Catch Yellow Fin Tuna Steaks†upc number 0-99482-42078-9 in a 12 ounce package with a best by date of December 5, 2010. These products may contain high...
Source: Radio New ZealandThe American Samoan member of the US Congress, Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, says he has received assurances from the Chairman of Dongwon Corporation, which owns StarKist Samoa, that there are no immediate plans for the cannery...
Source: Le High Valley Live
At noon today, Thursday, executive chef Shuji Hiyakawa and his sushi assistants will break down a 600-pound bluefin tuna at Kome, in The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley.
The event, which is not open to the public,...
By AtunaEuropean Union (EU) trade statistics show that Germany has exponentially decreased imports of canned tuna from other EU countries in 2009. This 59% cut in imports compared to 2008 shows a dramatic change in the distribution pattern towards...
Source: Eyre TribuneClean Seas Tuna is unlikely to achieve its target of transferring 25,000 Southern bluefin tuna fingerlings into sea cages this season.The company announced last week that it remains confident it will be able to put some...
Source: The Mainichi Daily NewsThe Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced it will temporarily close Tsukiji Market's tuna auction site to the public from today, Thursday, citing the increasing number of visitors affecting the market's...
By AtunaThe government of Ghana, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has recently announced the requirement that all fishing vessels are properly registered and identified. This has become an occurring action since...
By AtunaAlthough canned tuna demand was said to be lower in Europe, French imports for 2009 managed to keep similar levels than the previous year, with a slight increase of 2%.
According to the European Union trade statistics, from 96.045 MT...
By AtunaMaruha Nichiro Holdings bluefin farming has been recently awarded the Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS) certification at the “Production Information†category.
The company business operations stretch from marine products, food...
World Atlas Of Tuna Catch Methods Shows Purse Seiner Supremacy
By Atuna
The Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO) Fisheries department has recently made available a series of statistics about tuna catches and farming,...
Source: World FishingThe Southeast US North Atlantic bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna pelagic longline fishery is entering full assessment in the Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) certification program for sustainable and well-managed...
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Natalia Freitas, reporting for Atuna.comThe mood in the global Tuna market place is dominated by news of poor catches given by fishermen from all major tuna fishing areas.Large buyers are...
Source: VietNamNet BridgeWhile export markets all opening their doors widely, Vietnamese seafood processing factories run at only moderate level because they have few materials.
Deputy General Director of Baseafood Huynh Minh Tuong said that every...
Source: FishNewsEUA new tracking system of bluefin tuna from catch to sale will allow closer control over the alarmingly depleting stocks in EU waters.The new rules backed by the European Parliament Fisheries Committee on Wednesday require the...
Source: European ParliamentHow to ensure fair income for fishermen in a market where production costs are rising and sale prices stagnating? How can European producers compete with third countries where labour costs are considerably lower? These...
Source: Samoa News, based on Press Release
Cong. Faleomavaega met late last month with Mr. Kim Jae-chul, Chairman of the Dongwon Corporation which purchased StarKist from Del Monte in 2008 for some $363 million. Presently, StarKist employs about...
Source: TribLiveStarKist Co., needing more space as it expands after re-estabishing its headquarters in Pittsburgh, will move to the Equitable Gas Building on the North Shore.The move, from the Del Monte Building, also on the North Shore, will be...
Source: New York TimesAfter I spoke with Casson Trenor a couple of weeks ago, we both became aware of Martin Reed, who has just started a business called I Love Blue Sea. Mr. Reed is a retailer who’s doing the work for you, buying and selling...
Source: Somaliland PressToday in the port city of Berbera a provincial court has sentenced seven Yemeni fishermen each to four year prison terms for illegally fishing tuna in the Somaliland waters. The prosecutor had show evidences proving these...
Source: Fish2ForkCat food flavored with bluefin tuna, an endangered species, is being advertised online by the food giant Mars in the United States despite undertakings by the company that it will phase out seafood from unsustainable sources.Last...
Source: HaveeruThe cabinet has decided to permit longline fishing for yellowfin tuna and big-eyed tuna on Maldivian vessels by locals. Ministers on Tuesday discussed a paper on the issue, submitted by the Ministry of Fisheries, and the decision was...
Source: NewsWireWalmart Canada, which operates 317 retail outlets nationwide and serves more than one million customers daily, announced today its commitment to bring only sustainably-sourced frozen, wild and farmed fish to its customers by 2013....
Source: Samoa News
“Insufficient commentary†is how the U.S. Department of Interior describes the federal report on the impact of future federally mandated minimum wage hikes in American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...
Source: Canadian PressA dramatic shift is taking place in the fish aisle of Canadian supermarkets as a growing number of retailers are opting to only sell sustainably sourced seafood.A decade after they were first introduced, eco-friendly certified...
Source: Walter Williams CreatorsWhich allows an American Samoan worker to have a higher standard of living: being employed at $3.26 per hour or unemployed at a wage scheduled to annually increase by 50 cents until it reaches federally mandated wages...
Source: Macau Hub
Norway’s secretary of state for International Development, Ingrid Fiskaa, Tuesday announced funding of 10 million euros for the fishing sector in Mozambique, specifically to combat illegal fishing.Mozambique has just one leased...
Source: Bangor Daily NewsWhen the final sardine is processed today at the Stinson Seafood cannery in Prospect Harbor, it will represent more than the loss of another business to the fragile economy. It will represent more than the latest local...
Source: An in-depth analyses By Farisal Bagsit, Ruby Napata, Carlos Baylon, Ricardo Babaran, Gerald Quinitio, Rodelio Subade, Enrico Villoso published in the Philippine Daily InquirerConservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the...
Source: Notimex
More than 300 kilograms of cocaine hidden in cans of tuna, coming from Ecuador, were confiscated at the office of Manzanillo, Colima, Pacific coast of Mexico.Agents of the Attorney General in joint operation with customs and marine...
Source: Liverpool Daily PostMWBrands and its brand JOHN West Tuna, Britain’s leading canned fish brand, are for sale at £400m.Owned by MWBrands since 2006, it is being put up for sale by Trilantic Capital Partners, the former Lehman Brothers private...
Source: Malta IndependentThe European Union’s parliamentary fisheries committee has drafted a legislative resolution in a bid to thwart over-fishing and enforce stricter laws to protect the depleted status of bluefin tuna.
The draft was adopted...
Source: The ExaminerStarKist recalls two SeaSations products due to mislabeling. The products have undeclared wheat, one of the top 8 allergens. Individuals with wheat allergies or celiac disease are at risk if the product is consumed. SeaSations®...
By AtunaMW Brands CEO, Adolfo Valsecchi, has reacted on recent news that Trilantic has put the company and its brands for sale at GBP 400 million, by saying that these reports are “ misleading and untruthful “.
“We are simply preparing for...
By AtunaPoor tuna catches in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) seem to be a subject far from being over. Reports from fishermen keep coming and the data from the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) confirms that especially skipjack catches...
By AtunaThe European Seafood Exposition (ESE) and Seafood Processing Europe will be held in Brussels, Belgium between Tuesday 27 April and Thursday 29 April, 2010. These co-located events make up the world’s largest seafood event, drawing buyers...
Source: BIN, Contributed by Somali Marine & Coastal MonitorIt appears that the EU NAVFOR command deliberately withheld the confirmation of a sea-jacking of three Thai IUU fishing vessels by Somali pirates. The reason might well be that it...
By AtunaDuring the last 36 hours rumors have started circulating in the global tuna industry scene about a possible postponement of the 11th Infofish World Tuna Trade Conference in Bangkok – that is scheduled to be held from May 20th to May 22nd in...
Source: Slash Food
The past few months have seen a lot of international hand-wringing over the fate of wild bluefin tuna, which are considered by environmentalists to be vastly overfished. March’s gathering for the Convention on International...
Source: Yemen News AgencyThe daily average of the quantity of fish by traditional fishermen in the waters of the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea is estimated at about 500 tons. In a statement to Saba, Deputy Director of the Marine...
Source: San DiegoMany of us have been eating Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna for years. I’ve tried all the brands but always end up going back to San Diego’s own Bumble Bee. Headquartered at 9655 Granite Ridge Drive, Bumble Bee Foods, LLC is a...
Source: AFPTuna sushi bought at a range of US restaurants and supermarkets had mercury that breached levels set by health watchdogs, a study published on Wednesday said.The offending samples included bluefin tuna, the hugely-prized species that has...
Source: Focus Taiwan The Legislative Yuan approved Tuesday Taiwan’s participation in the Antigua Convention of the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), upgrading the country’s status from a cooperating fishing entity to a full member of...
Source: AFPEight Pacific island nations that control an area where more than a quarter of the world’s tuna is caught are meeting this week with the aim of tightening conservation measures.The eight poor island countries, known as Parties to the...
Written by Natalia Freitas for Atuna.comSushinho became the first high-end sushi restaurant in London to abolish tuna completely from its menu last week. Although one can say that not many options for sourcing sustainably caught tuna were considered...
By Atuna
If 40 U.S flagged tuna purse seiners will be allowed to continue fishing in the Western Central Pacific Ocean after 2013, will be determined by the outcome of the Multilateral Treaty on Fisheries Between Certain Governments of the Pacific...
By AtunaThe International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has scheduled aerial surveys of bluefin tuna spawning population on several transects in the Mediterranean, where and when schools are traditionally sighted close to...
Source: FishNewsEUThe Postcode Lottery has launched a new £6.1m funding initiative, Project Oceans, aimed at increasing consumer awareness about the challenges the oceans are facing, and to support the work of organisations that focus on protection...
Source: PR NewsWireBumble Bee Foods®, marketer of America’s leading premium seafood brand, has announced completion of significant sodium reductions across its line of canned albacore and light meat tuna products. Further sodium reducing...
From: SeafoodSourceSeafood buyers and sellers from around the globe are about to descend upon Brussels, Belgium, for the 18th annual European Seafood Exposition and Seafood Processing Europe.Despite travel disruptions across northern Europe caused...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesNew data has found that Australia’s 24 per cent quota cut to Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) last year was not required and the industry believes it needs to be returned as soon as possible.The news follows a meeting of the...
Source: BBC Bangkok, the center of the world largest canned tuna processing industry and also the stage for the TUNA 2010 the World Tuna Trade Conference –the bi-annually event organized by Infofish international- Bangkok has been wired up for...
Interview with PNA director Dr. Transform AqorauWritten by Natalia Freitas, for Atuna.com
The Parties of the Nauru Agreement (PNA) countries have decided over the last weekend to close a huge high sea areas and major tuna fishing ground...
Source: Honolulu AdvertiserThe Hawai’i Department of Health has confirmed 10 cases of salmonella infection on O’ahu since February and officials believe these people became ill after eating poke made from previously frozen imported ‘ahi.No one was...
Source: Palm Beach PostLast week the Institute of Medicine said the Food and Drug Administration has been remiss in cracking down on salt. Current government guidelines — and they’re just “guidelines†— say people should have no more than 2,300...
Source: Asian TribuneA Sri Lankan Fishing Vessel which trespassed into the Indian water near the Tamil Nadu coast has seized by The Indian Coast Guard on Friday night.The coast guard officers patrolling aboard its Dornier aircraft sighted a Sri...
By AtunaAmong several environmental issues concerning tuna stocks worldwide, skipjack tuna so far claimed abundant always managed to bring some comfort for canned tuna lovers.
However, there has been a considerable drop of skipjack catches in the...
Source: BloombergThailand faces a downgrade of its BBB+ credit rating should the political unrest that has paralyzed a Bangkok business district and claimed 26 lives continue, Standard & Poor’s said.“We do see the political uncertainty...
Source: Fish Information and ServicesThe Mercantile Court No. 3 of Pontevedra, based in Vigo, has set a creditor’s meeting for the cannery Alfageme SA, which has accumulated over EUR 50 million in debt.This legal proceeding can conclude with an...
Source: MeetPieEvents which were expected to attract around 10,000 delegates to Bangkok have been cancelled following violent clashes between anti-government protestors and police.The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) has had to close...
By AtunaSouth African Fisheries Department has forbidden vessels from the Philippines to unload or transship tuna within its ports since it was discovered that the Philippines Fishery authority had not yet implemented a Fisheries Monitoring Center...
Source: MSC Press ReleaseUp to 50% of all skipjack tuna caught in the Western and Central Pacific, which is managed by the eight states Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) will be assessed against the Marine Stewardship Council standard for...
By Atuna At the joint meeting of the tuna RFMOs, held last year in San Sebastian, there was an agreement to hold four workshops on subjects of common interest for 2010.
Two of these meetings will be held at the Eurostars Grand Marina/ World...
Source: EIN Press WireTomorrow, May 1st, 2010, Sea Shepherd’s flag ship Steve Irwin will depart from New York City and head towards the Mediterranean where it will commence Sea Shepherd’s 2010 Tuna Defense Campaign: Operation Blue Rage. The campaign...
From SeafoodSourceSuccessful reform to Europe’s tired fisheries policy is in the hands of a multitude of multi-stakeholders, each bringing to the table their own positions and interpretation of change.Galvanizing and shaping this kaleidoscope of...
Source: Reuters
A giant oil slick from last week's deadly offshore drilling rig explosion in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico threatens wide-scale coastal damage for four states.
The northern Gulf of Mexico is a crucial spawning ground at this time of...
