Source: PR USAStarKist Co., leading producer, distributor and marketer of shelf-stable seafood products in the United States, announced today the launch of its latest and most flavorful catch yet – new StarKist SeaSations Fish Fillets and Seafood...
Source: Press ReleaseResearchers at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (HSWRI) and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) recently completed the first successful air shipments of yellowfin tuna eggs and larvae into the United States....
Source: Alliance Press ReleasePT. International Alliance Foods Inc. (PTIAFI), an Indonesian subsidiary of publicly listed Alliance Select Foods International Inc., has announced its intentions to align itself with their customers increasing...
Source: New York TimesA talking tuna, a mermaid and a bee walk into a supermarket and ... Sounds like the set-up for a joke, yes? It is, however, for real, as three long-time competitors whose brands are represented by those characters join forces...
Source: Sunday Star TimesSecret papers reveal the government has allowed fishermen from poor countries to be exploited in New Zealand waters. Workers are fishing in rusting boats turned into high seas sweatshops that take large parts of the...
Source: Press Release – Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries AgencyThe Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) annual meeting opened Monday in Tuvalu to discuss key issues around sustainable management and development of its tuna.The Parties to the Nauru...
Source: Greenpeace UK Blog
We had huge success earlier this month getting both Princes and Asda to clean up their tinned tuna. But the battle against the butchering of our oceans isn’t over: John West and Morrisons are still not off the hook...
Source: NOAANOAA’s Fisheries Service will require commercial fishermen who fish for yellowfin tuna, swordfish and other species with longlines in the Gulf of Mexico to use a new type of hook, called a weak hook, designed to reduce the incidental...
Source: Food Safety NewsThe seaside area of Muara Baru is the largest fishing port in Indonesia. Located in North Jakarta, seafood processor P.T. Indomaguro Tunas Unggul says it has “sophisticated technology to produce natural frozen sashimi grade...
Source: World FishingAn Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery concession holder has been found guilty of unlawful fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Papua New Guinea (PNG).On 17 March 2011, the concession holder based in Mooloolaba appeared...
Source: Written by Yehiura Hriehwazi for the Post CourierPapua New Guinea has basically told the United States of America to go jump and not come fish in its waters because of its stubbornness and refusal to renegotiate fishing agreements and pay...
Source: Radio NZThe new Chief Executive and President of StarKist has signaled that American Samoa is where StarKist belongs and it’s where the cannery wants to be for another 48 years.In Soo-Cho has been in American Samoa visiting the company’s...
Source: News GatherThere have been millions of tons of radiation contaminated water dumped into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of the Japan nuclear meltdown. In trying to avert the ultimate disaster, workers have doused the reactor units with sea...
Source: El UniversoSince Ecuador’s preferential duty tariff for tuna pouches to the USA expired in mid-February, U.S. importers decided to reduce part of their purchase volume of Ecuadorian tuna and sought alternatives in other markets like...
Source: AAPSuccessfully moving 60 baby fish into sea cages off South Australia is a big leap for a company that plans to breed, grow and sell southern bluefin tuna.They’re the second batch of fingerlings to be transferred from onshore nursery cages...
By AtunaThe National Association of Spanish Canners (ANFACO) has been fined with Euro 100.000 by the national Spanish Competition Authority for recommending a joint price rise between their associated canneries for the cans in 2008. ANFACO...
Source:FishNewsEUTuna handline fishers in the Philippines now have a better chance at competing in European markets through a private-public partnership between WWF, Blueyou Consultancy, European seafood companies and the Government of...
Source: EFEThe Spanish Fisheries Confederation (CEPESCA) wanted to send a message of reassurance to fish consumers and has ensured that the area where Japanese nuclear “disaster†occurred is very away from areas where the Spanish fleet are...
By AtunaDe Cantabrian cannery Grupo Consorcio, famous for its retro designed labels on its tuna cans, will take over another icon of the Spanish canned tuna, Alfageme with its ‘Miau’ brand. Consorcio, with the help of money from the regional...
Source: Samoa News
Some 500 new workers have been hired at StarKist Samoa, a cannery that the company’s new president and chief executive officer says is really owned by Samoan people who - in the last four decades - have built this plant which has...
Source: EFE45 days after the last court session, the High Court resumed Friday the trial on the kidnapping of Basque tuna Alakrana in 2009 with the declaration of a dozen witnesses, including fishermen and soldiers.The trial of the two suspected...
Source: American Samoa
Gov. Togiola Tulafono says he has given assurances to StarKist Co., owner of the StarKist Samoa cannery, of the government’s commitment to work with the cannery and do whatever possible to help them became more globally...
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Ministers concluded today as leaders made key decisions to advance their sustainable management and development of its tuna.The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) includes Federated States of Micronesia,...
By AtunaThe Spanish tuna fleet in the Atlantic Ocean is suffering costly damages and logistical problems due to the armed conflict in Ivory Coast. As a result of the fighting between armed fractions of the recently elected president Alassane...
Source: Fiji Times
A local company executive says the decision by Government not to impose a levy on direct exports of tuna by foreign vessels is adversely affecting the local industry.
Fiji Fish Marketing Group Limited managing director Grahame...
Source: PR NewsWireThe Kroger Co. today announced new details of its progress on seafood sustainability and the next phase of its partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a leading global conservation organization. WWF is at the forefront of...
Source: Imparcial & DiarioAnti-narcotic authorities seized 800 kilos of cocaine at the port of Guayaquil that was about to be sent to Valencia, Spain hidden in a shipment of tuna, police said Tuesday.The drug was found in one of the three...
Source: Kyodo News
The Maldives has offered 600,000 cans of tuna, its specialty product, for earthquake and tsunami victims, Japanese government officials said.
The Foreign Ministry has expressed gratitude and is planning to swiftly accept the...
Source: World Fishing
MEPs have backed the renewal of an EU-Comoros fisheries protocol which expired on 31 December.
The new protocol allocates fishing opportunities to 70 vessels - 45 tuna seiners and 25 surface longliners from France, Italy,...
Source: Fiji TimesThe first shipment of tuna for the European Union market is expected to be sent next month after the final approval from the EU.This was confirmed by Health Ministry Food Unit head Jope Tamani on Friday.In an interview with Fiji...
The PNA ministers summit in Tuvalu last week agreed to meet and sustain the agreed objective of 100% observer coverage on the purse seine fishing vessels fishing in their countries EEZ’s. It was decided to establish a PNA Observer Agency to...
During the meeting in Tuvalu last week, the ministers of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), which includes Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, have taken some...
Source: Times of MaltaAfter a decade of over-fishing that lasted until 2007, are we still not doing enough to avert the extinction of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean?At a discussion organized by Din l-Art ¨¤elwa last month the debate circled...
Source: RTTNewsWhole Foods Market, an operator of natural and organic food supermarkets, Tuesday said it remains on track to stop selling red-rated swordfish and bluefin tuna at its seafood counters nationwide by April 22, Earth Day.Remaining...
Source: Independent Co UKLetters from customers and embarrassing headlines have forced the last major British supermarket group to drop a destructive form of tuna fishing.As the latest domino to topple in one of the most successful environmental...
Source: Free Malaysia TodayFelda’s move into ‘human capital development’ in Sabah will involve the maritime and hospitality sectors.Lahad Datu: Felda, the state-owned agriculture-based enterprise, is set to diversify into deepsea fishing and play a...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesThis season’s tuna stocks will be counted by the end of the week after ranching operations wrapped up one of the best years for the industry in decades.Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association chief executive...
Source: FishNewsEUThe Seychelles Second Tuna Conference was held last week on the coast of the Island of Mahe, with industry representatives, government leaders, scientists and conservationists analysing issues important to the sustainability of...
Source: European CommissionGetting away with fishing illegally will become much more difficult for fishermen, as the EU’s new system for fisheries control is now fully operational. With the adoption of detailed rules on how to carry out controls...
Source: Full text from Greenpeace press releaseGreenpeace yesterday welcomed news from UK retailer Morrisons, it was turning its back on wasteful tuna fishing methods responsible for ocean destruction.Following a three months of pressure from...
Source: Fiji TimesPrime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has assured that Gilontas Ocean in Indonesia will set-up operations in Fiji, according to a Ministry of Information statement.Commodore Bainimarama and his delegation visited the head...
Source: Yahoo UKA man has told a court how he took a building society hostage and threatened staff with a can of tuna fish that he pretended was a bomb. During the robbery on 7 December 2010, Sean Collins from West Dunbartonshire, slammed an empty...
Source: France 24A tuna-fishing boat is pictured off Port Victoria. A new system of fishery control with continent-wide, common rules and penalties is now fully operational, the European Commission said on Tuesday.“With the adoption of detailed...
Source: Greenbiz, by M. Gunther
Bumble Bee Foods is a survivor. Founded in 1899, Bumble Bee, which is headquartered in San Diego, owns two of the last three canned tuna factories in the U.S. (in southern California and Puerto Rico) and one of the...
By AtunaTuna import in the United Kingdom recovered during the first month of 2011, reversing the downward trend from 2009 to 2010. In January, imported canned tuna in brine totalled 7.612 tons, significantly higher than during this same month last...
By Atuna24 Tuna Brands Tested Also On Quality
German Consumers do not find enough information on the labels of canned tuna and tuna in glass about the sustainability of the product that they want to buy in the supermarket. That is one of the...
By AtunaAlmost three quarters of the fish consumers in the European Union think that the information on whether fish products come from well managed and sustainable sources is far from adequate. That is the result of a poll that was held by the...
Source: AFPA Taiwan fishing crew faces fines worth more than $4 million after being charged with a series of breaches of the Marshall Islands’ fishing regulations, an official said Friday.The 1937 M/T Purse seiner Taumoana and its skipper are...
Source: KyodoHundreds of tuna were offloaded Thursday at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the biggest fishing bases in the Tohoku region, for the first time since it was hard hit by the March 11 killer quake and tsunami.The Hoyo Maru No....
Source: AAP
Aquaculture company Clean Seas Tuna has been fined more than $27,000 over an industrial accident in which a worker blacked out following a “bizarre†dive into a large fish cage out at sea.
In a judgment handed down in the Magistrates...
Source: Focus TaiwanThe Radiation Monitoring Center (RMC) tried Thursday to allay fishermen’s fears about radioactive materials on aquatic life along Taiwan’s coast, saying that radiation will fall to much lower levels as it gets diluted in...
Source: The NationalA European Union (EU) economic partnership agreement (EPA) is major boost for the Papua New Guinea fishing industry, Fisheries Minister Ben Semri said.He said the agreement would benefit the country through direct foreign...
Source: Samoa NewsCongressman Faleomavaega Eni said that Mr. Cho, the StarKist CEO, reached out to him prior to his visit to the Territory, but the schedules of the Congressman and the CEO conflicted so they agreed to talk upon Mr. Cho’s return. He...
By Atuna
Friends of the Sea (FOS), the seafood certification organisation, that also certifies tuna fisheries, will not reveal the names of the two longline fleets which have been audited and don’t match the organisation’s sustainability...
Source: Croatian Times Cans of tuna fish K-plus will be recalled from the market for containing high quantities of histamine.Croatia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development decided to pull the product after an investigation showed...
Source: Samoa NewsAmerican Samoa has offered its support and assistance to Tri Marine International for the redevelopment of the cannery facility in Atu’u once occupied by the now closed COS Samoa Packing.Tri Marine official Joe Hamby was in the...
Source: El FinancieroEl Salvador. The tuna cannery Calvo Group announced the investment of USD 4 million to replace equipment at the facilities and to hire 300 new temporary workers in the next six months to expand production.Manuel Calvo, Managing...
Source: Radio NZThe PNA, A group of eight tuna fishing nations in the Central and Western Pacific plan to open a school to train fishing crews.The members of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement say they want ten percent of crews on trawlers to be...
By AtunaTimes when the tuna industry could operate far away from the public attention are over. Sustainability is the new challenge and becoming an indispensable issue in marketing tuna products. The by catch of tuna fishing is a main issue in a...
Source: ABC NewsPolice are continuing to search for clues to the death of a deckhand whose body was found on a fishing boat in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle this morning.Forensic officers are on board the Taisei Maru, a tuna fishing...
Source: The Portland Press Herald Maine’s bluefin tuna fishermen are expected to show up in force to protest new federal quotas on the fishery at a public hearing in Portland April 25.The hearing, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Holiday Inn by the Bay...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesThe announcement of planned oil explorations by BP off Port Lincoln waters in the Great Australian Bight has created concerns for the local tuna industry. As the Great Australian Bight provides fishers with their annual...
Source: AljazeeraMore than 40 species of fish native to the Mediterranean are being threatened with extinction due to overfishing and illegal nets, a report has warned.The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a Geneva-based...
Source: VOV NewsTuna is one of Vietnam’s key exports, after shrimp and tra fish, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).The tuna export value and volume has risen significantly since early this year and will...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesResearch into Port Lincoln's wild tuna farming industry has resulted in a significant drop in fish mortality rates since the program began in 2008. The project, which involves investment from the Fisheries Research and...
As condition for Tuna Fishing Rights US fleet
By Atuna
The United States has to grant Papua New Guinea (PNG) comparable access rights to the US home market for tuna products like now is agreed with the European Union (EU) if it wants to...
By AtunaThe turmoil in North Africa, fights in Ivory Coast, the after effects of the Japanese tsunami and the fall-out of radioactivity from the destroyed nuclear energy plant in Fukushima, have caused an important impact on the market for tuna in...
Source: Times of Malta, Letter by : Dr Refalo is secretary of the Federation of Maltese Aquaculture ProducersThe editorial Tuna Industry Entangled In Libyan Crisis (April 14) addressed the situation in Libya and its effect on the Maltese tuna...
By AtunaThe Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has made public that it has started the final assessment process for the most ambitious and important certification of sustainable tuna fisheries done so far in the world tuna industry. The draft...
By AtunaIf things go as planned, the eight Pacific countries that form the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) can expect completion of the MSC certification assessment process of their free school skipjack fisheries this autumn. If all the...
