Source: Fish Information and ServicesThe Basque group Echebastar Fleet signed a contract with Astilleros Zamakona SA for the construction of a freezing tuna ship, worth EUR 30 million.The Basque Maritime Forum reported that this is the first of a...
Source: ABC Rural
Australia’s first ever tuna vessel, the Tacoma has returned to Port Lincoln from its first tuna fishing trip since the 1980’s.The crew recreated the vessel’s pioneering logs from the 1950s, catching tuna in the old fashioned way,...
Source: WWF
Deadlocked talks and a deferral of key conservation and management measures for high value tuna stocks mark a disappointing outcome for the annual meeting of The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), WWF noted as the...
The green action group collaborated with WSP Digital and Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) for the venture and the new app now sits within AMCS’s popular Sustainable Seafood Guide app.
• The iphone app is meant to allow shoppers to make...
Source: FishNewsEU
A French-flagged tuna purse seiner is the latest vessel to face sanctions under Sierra Leone’s crackdown on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.The FV Sterenn (IMO 9225548) owned by France Thon of Concarneau is under...
By atuna.com
The U.S. government suspended a 31-year-old reciprocal tuna fishing agreement with Canada last week and the blocked access could impact either country’s industry, says Lorne Clayton, director of an industry group in British Colombia,...
Source: All Africa
Mozambican fishing companies will be able to fish in Namibian waters, and Namibian tuna fishing companies in Mozambican waters, as from this year.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, during the state visit of Namibian President...
Source : Intrafish
You get what you pay for in life, said Inn-soo Cho, the top executive at Dongwon Industries-owned Starkist. American consumers are paying too little, so are getting poor quality products in return.“The pricing of the tuna...
Source: The Advertiser
A fearless band of poachers is raiding Port Lincoln’s tuna farms, spurred on by the high price of tuna steaks in the seafood markets of Sydney.The poachers strike under cover of darkness, stealing fish, harming those left...
Source: Business DayBarbate, near Cadiz, southwest Spain is known for its mojama — wind-dried tuna many now serve in thin slices on bread or on top of salad leavesTsukiji has long been synonymous with tuna. Equally expert with this mighty fish, but...
Source: Full text from Greenpeace press release
Since we launched the first guide just 2 years ago there have been mammoth improvements. This is thanks to you ocean lovers demanding change! 2 years ago no tuna brand even knew where or how their tuna...
Source : AFP
Palau police shot dead a Chinese fisherman and three men in a police spotter plane were feared killed in a dramatic confrontation off the Pacific island, officials said Monday.The fisherman died in a hail of bullets designed to stop a...
Source: The Conversation
The eighth meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission concluded in Guam on Friday 30 March 2012. Five hundred delegates from more than 40 countries argued for a week about how to reduce overfishing in...
The purse seiner Torre Giulia, owned by Italian company Industria Armatoriale Tonniera, is participating in an experiment with on board video monitoring.
The Torre Giulia is the second purse seine tuna vessel in the world to employ an electronic...
Source: Radio NZ
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement says the latest meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission didn’t go far enough towards conservation and management of tuna.Last week’s meeting concluded without any progress...
Source: Pacific Daily News
The Republic of Palau allows fishing vessels from several different nations to fish in its exclusive fishery zones, but the last time a Chinese fishing vessel was licensed by Palau was six years ago, according to a report...
90 people in 19 states affected Source: Journal SentinelFederal health officials are investigating a growing outbreak of salmonella likely linked to spicy tuna roll sushi that has sickened 90 people in 19 states and the District of Columbia,...
Source: Bangkok Post
Thai Union Frozen Products Plc (TUF), the world's largest canned tuna producer, is undertaking a major corporate rebranding to prepare for the emergence of the Asean Economic Community (AEC).The company hopes to double...
Source: Radio NZ
The executive director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission has defended its work on tuna conservation following criticism from the head of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement.Last week’s Commission meeting ended...
Source: Fish Information and Services
The Council of Ministers of Spain approved the delivery of a Euro 12.8 million loan to fund infrastructure design, supply and construction projects for processing, freezing and preserving fish in Cape Verdean...
Source: Colombo Page
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday declared open the first ever semi-government owned fish canning factory at the Fisheries Corporation premises in Galle in Southern Province.
The cannery, built at a cost of 840...
Source: Radio AustraliaTalks to map out a new tuna conservation regime for the Western Pacific collapsed in Guam last Friday.
The negotiations between Pacific Islands nations and the United States, Europe, China, Japan and others - failed to find...
By atuna.com
The illegal fishing charges against the French-flagged tuna purse seiner Sterenn are “completely inappropriate,†says Michel Goujon, director of Orthongel, the French tuna-boat owners association.
The FV Sterenn, owned by France Thon,...
By atuna.com
Good news for retailers who have made firm commitments to switch their canned tuna to pole and line caught skipjack, but so far failed to secure supply. A new organization promises to meet the increased demand for pole-and-line tuna by...
Source: Southern Fried Science
The world’s largest shark eats only plankton, couldn’t bite a human if it wanted to, and is one of the few sharks that could be reasonably described as beautiful. Globally, SCUBA divers pay an estimated USD 50...
Source: Food Safety News
Prospect Enterprises of Los Angeles, California was warned that a January/February 2012 inspection of the company’s seafood processing facility, American Fish & Seafood Company in Sacramento, California revealed...
Source: The Guardian UK
Pacific nations have reopened the Pacific high seas to commercial tuna fishing after a two-year ban imposed to preserve declining bigeye tuna stocks.In a meeting in Guam end March, member countries of the Western and Central...
Source: World Fishing
Sapmer’s fourth purse seine tuna boat in a series of five, Dolomieu, was christened on 22 March 2012 at the Nha Be site in Hô Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Tuna purse seiner DolomieuIn 2007, PIRIOU won an order from SAPMER for three...
Source: KHON2
A Honolulu-based company that wants to farm ahi in waters off the Big Island has received a federal permit.
Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc. said Thursday the state’s Department of Health has issued it a permit under a U.S....
Source: The Hindu
With conventional fishing turning unviable, several mechanized boats and trawlers are diversifying into tuna fishingAll is not well with the deep-sea fishing industry, thanks to falling catch, exorbitant rise in operational costs...
Source: Manila Bulletin
The future of the world’s tuna population may be in Filipino hands, environmental group Greenpeace said after a ban on tuna fishing in a part of the Pacific was partially lifted for Philippine fishing vessels.“The Philippines...
Source: WKTV
Something fishy is happening all across the country as the FDA says 30 percent of the seafood you eat is not what it seems.
It’s called “fish fraudâ€. One instance is tuna substituted with Escolar, a cheaper, lower grade fish that is...
Source: Malta Today
The Maltese Environmental Health Directorate has removed tuna steaks skinless boneless from the market as a precautionary measure and has warned the public that it is not to be consumed because of a level of Histamine that...
Source: News Medical
Food safety lawyer and Salmonella expert Fred Pritzker said the fast-growing tuna sushi Salmonella outbreak now under federal investigation has undoubtedly sickened thousands of consumers -- not just the 93 people whose...
By atuna.com
The rising prices of vegetable oil, found in canned tuna, is a result of growing worldwide demand and a shrinking supply of crops, says an industry trader.
While the high prices were more influenced by outside markets last year, he...
Source: Fiji Times
Fiji’s tuna industry started from humble beginnings with the establishment of the cannery at Levuka in 1966 and supported by small pole and line fleet targeting the surface occurring species.
Today, the tuna industry is Fiji’s...
From Ecuadorian News Sources
The tuna fishing vessel Tuna 1, which is owned by the company Tunaexport, sank last week at 180 miles south of the island of Isabela in the GalapagosThe Tuna 1Fourteen people who survived a shipwreck near Ecuador’s...
Source: Speakeasy Blog from Wall Street Journal Televised fishing used to be something that you’d watch on sleepy Saturday afternoons. But the National Geographic Channel has put an adventuresome “Perfect Storm†spin onto their new reality show...
Source: LA Daily News
For much of the 20th Century Southern California was a world leader in seafood production. The once-thriving tuna fishing fleet, based at the Port of Los Angeles and in San Diego, plied distant waters for months at a time...
By atuna.comThe reciprocal albacore tuna fishing agreement between the U.S. and Canada is outdated and needs to be revised, said the California-based Western Fishboat Owners Association in a statement last week.“The treaty that has existed for 31...
Source: Blog Miguel Jorge, National Geographic
As the US presidential election cycle heats up, I’m always fascinated and a bit frustrated by how complex issues needing real solutions get dumbed down into slogans. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised...
Higher standards to protect dolphins being developed
By atuna.comThe Earth Island Institute’s ongoing claims that Pacifical tuna is not dolphin safe are false, and the EII certification program should not be trusted because it’s not reliable,...
By atuna.comTuna lovers can unite on May 2 by celebrating the first annual International World Tuna Day.
Ministers of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) launched the global initiative last July to turn the spotlight on the popular seafood and...
Source: The Hindu
Scientists claim that foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids such as fish and almonds could block the path of primary cancer tumors, thus preventing the advance to secondary stage cancers.An international team, led by the University of...
Source: All Africa
The Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources has expressed his ministry’s determination to ensure that all fishing vessels operating within Sierra Leone’s territorial waters do so in compliance with the laws of the land.
Dr....
Source: Europa Press
Andalusian fishermen affected by not being able to fish in Moroccan waters after the rejection of the European Parliament to the fisheries agreement between the European Union (EU) and Morocco have Thursday begun to receive...
Source: All Africa
A ship that was seized for fishing illegally in Mozambican waters has been turned into a monitoring and inspection vessel, and has joined the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.The ship is the “Antillas...
Source: Radio AustraliaPNA ministers will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of their foundation at this year’s Annual General Meeting on the 1st and 2nd May.PNA rejects claims of dolphin harm. On top of their agenda will be the issue of dolphin...
Source: UPIThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it had found the source of recent Salmonella poisoning: Moon Marine, a fish processor in Cupertino, California. “We have traced the illness back to certain lots of tuna scrape from Moon Marine,â€...
By atuna.com
France, and possibly the European Union, want to eliminate the use of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, and if the ban is passed, it could pose a huge trade barrier for producers of canned. Now BPA is used in the lacquer...
Source: Islands Business
The region’s leading tuna management control authority in the Pacific believes the latest move by the Solomon Islands to give priority to fishing companies that invest in the country would influence investment and offer more...
Source: IBN Live
Price of Sea-food in the State is all set to go up as the 45-day fishing ban comes into effect from Saturday midnight to facilitate spawning.
The prices of the most sought after species prawn (tiger, golden & white) and tuna...
By atuna.comThe Netherlands-based seafood supplier, Anova Seafood, is set to add QR codes to the packaging of its frozen yellowfin tuna fillets, in a move to make tuna sustainability and product information more accessible to consumers by using...
Source: Radio Australia
Kiribati will try and earn more from its tuna industry through a local processing facility scheduled to start later this year.
Foreign countries pay licensing fees to catch tuna off Kiribati, and those fees are currently the...
Source: Islands BusinessThe number of days and how much the United States is willing to pay will be the deal breaker in the current negotiations for a successor agreement to the US tuna treaty.The next round of talks between the Pacific and the US...
By atuna.com
American seafood processors are the latest industry group to add their two cents to the ongoing battle surrounding the U.S.-Canada albacore treaty suspension. The West Coast Seafood Processors Association (WCSPA) is “alarmed†at the...
Source: Edmonton Journal
For Saskatchewan’s Troy Kincaid — rig worker by profession but fishermen by hobby — the waters of Hawaii were recently the scene of an epic struggle between him and a 231-pound bigeye tuna.After 45 minutes, the 29-year-old...
Multi-million dollar US advertising campaign to promote unsustainable canned tuna collapsesSource: Blogpost by Oliver Knowles
In March, just a year after the launch of a planned three-year, multi-million dollar advertising push to try and increase...
Source: The Saigon Times Daily
While shrimp processors recorded modest export revenue growth in the first quarter and tra fish exporters were unable to pull themselves out of trouble, tuna exporters saw positive developments.As of mid-March, the...
Fear over possible loss Preference by Ecuador
By atuna.comEuropean tropical tuna traders and industry members met in Brussels today to protect their economic interests, said Eurothon in a press release.
The Eurothon committee, led by president Juan...
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has released its position statement in anticipation of the 16th Session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) to be held this April in Fremantle, Australia. Noting the findings of the...
Source: The Globe and Mail
You can officially stop holding your nose in the tuna aisle now.
Where most of Canada’s largest tinned tuna brands are still sourced from environmentally-dubious fisheries, the albacore tuna from Raincoast Trading, a...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A Cupertino seafood importer is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of raw ground yellowfin tuna linked to 116 salmonella infections in February and March.Moon Marine USA Corp., also known as MMI, sold the “Nakaochi...
Written by Anouk Ride
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), eight Pacific Island countries controlling the world’s largest sustainable tuna purse seine fishery, are preparing to celebrate the first World Tuna Day next month.
In 2011, PNA...
By atuna.comThe Eurothon group of tuna producers informed the European Commission yesterday that it should stop granting special treatment to disadvantaged countries in order to “preserve the competitiveness and employment†of the EU tuna industry,...
Source: The AustralianAn outbreak of enteritis among yellowtail kingfish is causing financial concerns at Clean Seas Tuna.The South Australian aquaculture company is reviewing the future of its yellowtail kingfish operations in the Spencer Gulf...
Source: Patriotic Guard
Sierra Leone Minister Soccoh Kabia, from the Ministry of Marine Resources and Fisheries, recently spoke to Patriotic Vanguard news source explaining the current situation of IUU vessels in Sierra Leone and the measures the...
Source: Fish Information and ServicesThe Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds from Gipuzkoa decided to trade 70 per cent of the bluefin tuna quota that has been assigned to them for this year’s season.
Besides, its members decided to capture the...
Source: All Africa
The Spanish fishing company Inpesca, fined last month for illegal fishing in Mozambican waters, has lodged an appeal against the fine with Mozambique's Administrative Tribunal.The boat in question, the “Txori Argiâ€, was seized...
Source: Samoa News
Led by general manager Brett Butler and the management team, some 1,700 employees of StarKist Samoa Company marched Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Stadium to celebrate this year’s Flag Day in American Samoa.A sea of colorful...
Source: Stanford School of Medicine
Previous research suggests that bisphenol-A (BPA) interferes with the endocrine system and can reduce male fertility, increase the risk of developing some cancers and contribute to heart disease. Now, researchers...
Source: Minivan NewsPresident Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan has said he intends to begin resuming the payment of subsidies to fishermen within days. The President added that he would try to provide fish at better prices by increasing the promotion of...
Source: The Fiji Times
The Fiji Offshore Fisheries Association wants the number of fishing licenses maintained. Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Association member Grahame Southwick wants them to be reduced.Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Association member Grahame...
Source: The Inquisitr
Sorry son, you are going to have to keep chasing that record. A record 427 pound yellowfin tuna was nabbed off the coast of Mexico. Unfortunately, the record was set aside because a deckhand touched the pole as the record...
Source: The Southland TimesSanford, the fisheries company currently facing charges of pollution, conspiracy and obstruction of justice relating to its San Nikunau vessel, revealed that a former crew member has entered into a plea agreement with the...
Source: The FishSiteKeith Ashfield, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, issued a statement following key meetings with US Administration officials on important bilateral and multilateral fisheries management and related issues.“The status of...
Source: Philippine Entertainment Portal
Superbods winners John Spainhour and Monika Sta. Maria The search is over! Century Tuna has found two new Superbods that will become their ambassadors for health and fitness.Former US marine John Spainhour...
Source: Focus Taiwan
The first bluefin tuna caught this year in Taiwan waters was sold for NT$900,000 (USD 30,521) at an auction in Yilan County on Thursday.The 360 kilogram fish, caught near Yonaguni off western Japan, was bought by a restaurant...
By atuna.com
The fishing zone boundaries under the EU-Mozambique fishing agreement are not clear, says a Spanish purse seiner organization. One of its members, Spanish tuna company Inpesca, recently appealed its fine for illegal tuna fishing in...
By atuna.com
The PNA Western and Central Pacific skipjack tuna fishery is not targeting or harming dolphins, says the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in a press release issued today.
Last week the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) said in a...
By atuna.com126 companies will be showcasing their tuna products at the annual European Seafood Exposition (ESE), to be held April 24-26 in Brussels, Belgium.
With over 1600 exhibitors, representing all categories of seafood products, the ESE is...
Source: Fox NewsDolphins, by the hundreds, are dying off the coast of Peru. And the reason for their death seems to be big mystery.About 877 dolphin carcasses have been found along the shores of the country’s northern regions, said Deputy...
Source: Radio New Zealand
The Chairman of the Parties to the Nauru agreement has described a message by Earth Island Institute to its consumers as a pack of rubbish and lies.Earth Island Institute, which monitors tuna companies around the world has...
Source: Fish Information and ServicesThe managing director of the Fish Producers Organization of Trap Net Fisheries (Almadrabas OPP), Marta Crespo, was disappointed about the fact that the Federation of Fishermen’s Associations of Guipúzcoa has...
Bolton Group bought a 37.6 percent stake in Spain’s canned fish company Calvo for more than Euro 100 million (USD 132 million).Bolton, which has a more than 50 percent market share of the canned fish industry in Italy with its brand Rio Mare, bought...
Source: All Africa
Somali people argue that rather than anything else illegal fishing and dumping toxic waste into Somalia’s seas are the root causes of piracy.Yet regardless of the originality and authenticity of this claim, piracy remains an...
Source: Forimmediaterelease.netThe former CEO of the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) has been elected as the Executive Secretary of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) during the 16th Session of the IOTC held on Saturday, April 21, in...
Source: The Phuket News Two Taiwanese fishing boats were seized and 12 crew members arrested near Phuket on Sunday for smuggling diesel oil into Thai waters.
Customs Investigation and Suppression Bureau inspecting the diesel aboard one of the boats...
Source: ABC Sydney
Australia’s newest Commonwealth marine reserve will be the world’s largest “fattening paddock†for yellowfin tuna, but critics say only foreign fishing vessels will be reaping the benefits.The one million square kilometer Coral...
Source: Focus TaiwanA fire broke out aboard a Taiwanese-flagged tuna longliner vessel off the island of Guam Saturday, prompting all nine crew members to abandon ship, who were later rescued by a nearby cargo vessel, according to a report the...
The accomplishment of the Italian multinational Bolton Group to acquire shares in the Spain’s fish canning Grupo Calvo has exceeded Euro 125 million. Bolton’s total stake in the Spanish group is not 37.6 % but 40%, reports the Spanish news source La...
Source: The Washington PostSeafood counters used to be simpler places, where a fish was labeled with its name and price. Nowadays, it carries more information than a used-car listing. Where did it swim? Was it farm-raised? Was it ever frozen? How...
Source: The Fiji TimesThe Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Association harvesters of tuna within Fiji’s Exclusive Economic Zone supports the expansion of the Fiji fleet beyond the EEZ.
Association member Grahame Southwick said the expansion must however, be...
Source: Northland’s News CenterTesting performed by the Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection laboratory has confirmed Salmonella Bareilly contamination in recalled yellowfin tuna and in a spicy tuna roll made with the recalled...
Source: American Albacore Fishing AssociationThe Western Fishboat Owners Association (WFOA) and the American Albacore Fishing Association have jointly signed in unanimous agreement a statement regarding the U.S. Canadian Treaty.Here below is their...
Source: Perishable NewsOregon Seafoods is introducing its foodservice item – Chef’s Brand Pacific Caught Wild Albacore – that features its premium wild Albacore tuna product. Chef’s Brand is also a recipient of the National Restaurant Association’s...
Source: Reuters
Move over, pink slime. There’s a new potential target for food purists’ scorn, and it’s the focus of the first Salmonella sushi lawsuit linked to a recent nationwide outbreak. “Nakaochi Scrape†is the term used to describe “backmeatâ€...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesBlaslov Fishing Group has committed to cleaning up their allocated beach at least four times a year under the newly announced Adopt a Beach program.The Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) program, which was launched...
Source: Infofish
In barely a month, the largest global tuna industry meeting will commence. Major tuna industry players, tuna governing bodies, NGOs, service providers and government officials will gather in Bangkok for the TUNA 2012 conference and...
Source: Narooma News
Four South East Trawl vessels have been caught out not using mandatory devices to prevent seabirds becoming caught, injured or killed in fishing gear.A fishing crew operating out on the Great Australian Bight meanwhile has...
Source: Fox12Oregon State Patrol arrested the driver of a truck full of tuna after another driver reported him to police.Wednesday night, OSP dispatch received a report of a possibly intoxicated commercial truck driver on Highway 30 near Rainier....
Source: BirdLife International
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has agreed to measures that, if appropriately implemented by tuna longline fishing vessels, will result in significant reductions in albatross mortality.It announced that all...
Source: Port Lincoln Times
Trial selling of this season’s southern bluefin tuna will begin in the lead-up to Japan’s Golden Week at the end of the month.
The annual holiday period for Japan is the country’s third largest holiday, and produce from...
