By AtunaThe European Commission reported two Indonesian vessels for performing IUU fishing to the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) secretariat.
The Vessels HOOM XIANG 11 and LINGSAR N° 8 were reported to be fishing tuna inside the EEZ of La...
Source: Radio NZThe U.S. Coast Guard has seized the Taiwanese tuna long liner Te Hung Fa for illegally fishing in the Northern Marianas Exclusive Economic Zone.The Coast Guard Cutter, Washington, intercepted the Te Hung Fa 27 kilometers inside the...
Source: Jakarta PostDedy Sutisna, a director general at the Fishery and Maritime Affairs Ministry, said that Indonesia, as a member of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) had the obligation to pay an annual fee of Rp 2 billion (around...
By AtunaDespite the report last week by a Kaliningrad-based shipping company that the crew of the Thai Union-3 fishing trawler may be released in the coming days, there was no confirmation about this so far.
The tuna vessel was hijacked off the...
Source: Korea HeraldKorea aims to export $6.4 billion worth of farm, fisheries and food products in 2010, up 33 percent from the total forecast for this year, the government said Wednesday.The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...
Source: Steel GuruTEX reported that Japanese integrated steelmakers have firmed up most of their export deals of TMBP and tinplate with successful price increases slightly beyond USD 100 per ton each for shipments to Asian destinations in the...
Source: Economic TimesMarine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has requested all fishing boat operators and seafood exporters to cooperate in implementing the catch certificate validation scheme which comes into effect from January 1,...
Source: Radio NZThe American Samoa Governor Togiola Tulafono says he is still hopeful the Fono will have a change of heart on his proposal for his Government to acquire the assets of the shut down Samoa Packing tuna canning plant, the former Chicken...
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A Japanese couple has recently decided to celebrate their love by showing their passion for one particular fish: bluefin tuna, or “maguro†in...
The Colombian-Venezuelan “entrepreneurâ€, Ricardo Fernandez Barrueco, who was arrested in Caracas by the authorities, accused of several crimes allegedly arising from irregularities with four banks and who is the main shareholder of the Ecuadorian...
Source: Adelaide NowFamed for its millionaires, its seafood, and its tourism, Port Lincoln is an isolated city whose varied riches have made it a success story.The pristine coastline and the tuna and great white sharks that inhabit it helped create...
Source: Japan TimesThis year’s first auction of inshore tuna was held Monday at Nachi-Katsuura, a major fishing port in Wakayama Prefecture, with a 150-kg bluefin tuna fetching the day's highest price at ¥1.55 million.The tuna, caught by the...
Source: Jakarta PostMaritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad has pledged to take sterner measures against foreign-flagged vessels for failing to possess fishing permits to combat illegal tunal fishing in Indonesian waters. Fadel...
By AtunaA report on climate change implications for fisheries calculated the contribution of the world’s fishing fleet to it and stated that vessels are using as much oil as the entire nation of the Netherlands was using in 2005.Fisheries activities...
Source: Taiwan NewsA Legislative Yuan committee passed a proposal yesterday paving the way for Taiwan’s participation in the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), or the Antigua Convention, as a full member under the title Chinese...
Source: Business WorldProcessed meat producer CDO Foodsphere, Inc. has lodged another complaint against competitor Century Pacific Group of Companies, claiming the latter has been suppressing competition in the local canned tuna market.In a letter...
By AtunaU.S. canned tuna giant, Bumble Bee Foods, has recently found out in a commissioned survey targeting a national random sample of 1.001 respondents that 81% of consumers are spending more or about the same on groceries as they did two years...
Source: EuropoliticsA compromise on the position the European Union will defend at the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) conference of parties, scheduled for March in Doha, is on the agenda of the European...
Source: MSNBCRetailers inspect fresh tuna during at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A bluefin tuna has fetched a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen ($177,000) at the first auction of the year. A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen...
Source: Tempo InteraktifIran is ready to receive a large supply of tuna from Indonesia.Indonesian exporters and Iranian importers have agreed on the fish quality and prices. Indonesia is targeting to export 2000 ton of tuna starting January 2010. “A...
Source: Mainichi Daily NewsThe Choshi Fishing Port is packed with landed albacore tuna on Monday.The Choshi Fishing Port got the year off to a good start by landing 1,500 albacore tuna among its first catch of this season on Monday.The port landed...
Source: FishNewsEUNew rules to crackdown on pirate fishing activities around the world which entered into force on 1st January have been welcomed by environmental group WWF.If implemented properly, WWF believes that the new regulations will help...
Source: Business Insight MalayaThe Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will seek to mediate the tuna row between dominant player Century Canning Corp. and competitor Foodsphere Inc.DTI Undersecretary Zenaida C. Maglaya said no case has been...
Source: Tunisia NewsIllegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has become a priority issue at international level. Strong measures have already been taken by the European Commission to prevent illegal fishing.Concerned with non-declared and...
Source: Business WeekThai food producers, the country’s best-performing group of stocks last year, may extend gains as they expand output to meet increased demand for chicken, seafood and animal feed, Nomura Holdings Inc.’s partner said.Companies...
Source: Jakarta PostIndonesia’s ministry’s director of foreign marketing Saut P. Hutagalung Saut was in Iran last week to make an agreement to export a targeted 2,000 tons of pre-cooked tuna loins in 2010.
“Indonesian exporters and Iranian...
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I would like to call a truce between Congressman Faleomavaega and myself in the current war of words we are waging. I have raised some important points regarding our economic future...
Source: Adelaide Now
An ammonia explosion at a Port Lincoln tuna factory run by Makybe Diva owner Tony Santic has evacuated businesses within in a three-kilometer radius.
Emergency crews were called to Tony’s Tuna, owned by racing identity Santic,...
Source: Written by Dr. Transform Agorau, Islands Business2010 will see the establishment of the new Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) (Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and...
Source: BernamaIndonesia’s fishery products are still hampered with tariff barriers to compete with other countries in the European Union and the Middle East, Antara news agency reported.“The tariff barriers were in the form of high import duties...
Source: European CommissionThe European Commission has published the rejections of tuna over these first days of this new year.Spain made two notifications. It alerted organoleptic characteristics of tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) coming from Cape Verde,...
Source: Daily TribuneThere is nothing wrong with Century Tuna’s voluntary loyalty program for dealers and retailers and is therefore not illegal, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) had said.Century’s voluntary loyalty program, according to...
By AtunaSouth African Department of Environmental Affairs has requested Vanuatu tuna ship “Balena†to be included in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) list of IUU vessels.
According to the Director of Marine and Costal Management, Razeena...
Source: The Citizen
The Director of the Fisheries Department in the Livestock Development and Fisheries ministry, Mr. Geoffrey Nanyaro, exchanges documents with the president of the Federation of Japan Tuna Cooperative Associations, Mr. Moshiro...
Source: The HinduIndia’s Minister of State for Agriculture K.V. Thomas was spoke after commissioning the Rs. 3-crore chilled tuna processing plant built by the National Institute of Fisheries Post Harvest Technology and Training (NIFPHATT).He hoped...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesLast week the large majority of Port Lincoln tuna boats set out on another trip to the Great Australian Bight.Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association chief executive Brian Jeffriess said so far this season the catches...
Source: AFPFrench fishermen are urging the government to resist pressure from green groups when it decides on Monday whether to join a global ban on trade of the overfished bluefin tuna.Prime Minister Francois Fillon is to announce whether France is...
By AtunaThe Maldivian government has confirmed through its president, Mr. Mohamed Nasheed, its plans to hold its first Seafood Fair during fishermen’s day ceremony of 2010.
Maldives has been celebrating the 10th December every year as their...
Source: VietNamNet BridgeMany local tuna exporters in Vietnam have postponed shipments or stopped signing contracts with EU importers for not meeting IUU regulations. "If we continue to export to the EU without caring about IUU, we may lose this...
Source: Flex News
Thai Union Frozen Products, Asia's biggest canned tuna exporter, said on Thursday it expected 2010 net profit to top its estimated 2009 profit of more than 3 billion baht ($91.2 million).
Its dollar sales this year, which make...
Source: PR NewswireEuropean Capital Limited (‘European Capital’) announced yesterday that it has received proceeds of euro 66.8 million from the exit of three portfolio companies.“We are pleased to announce the sale of MW Brands' senior...
Source: EuropoliticsThe European Commission’s services have not yet managed to come to agreement on the proposal for the EU’s position at the forthcoming Conference of Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Fauna and...
Source: InfofishSustainability and market access will feature significantly at the upcoming Global Technical and Trade Conference TUNA 2010. The biggest global event in the tuna calendar, TUNA 2010, will enjoy active participation of industry...
Source: Samoa NewsStarKist Company requested and ASG Tax Exemption Board approved a three-month extension for StarKist Samoa in 2010 while the company awaits the outcome of the American Samoa Protection of Industry and Resources (ASPIRE) legislation...
Source: AFPFrance's fisheries minister on Wednesday opposed plans to ban fishing of the overexploited bluefin tuna but backed curbing the trade of it outside the EU, notably with the world's biggest consumer Japan.“I do indeed want us to...
By AtunaOrganizers of the Seychelles 1st Tuna Conference announced today that government officials, industry leaders and some of the world’s top marine scientists have committed to speak and share ideas in an open forum scheduled for 4th-6th of...
Source: Business MirrorA local fishers’ federation, the Tambuyog Development Center (TDC), is planning to stage a protest rally when the two-day Coral Triangle Summit opens today at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati.This developed even as the TDC...
By AtunaLittle was known about the implications of climate change on tuna stocks today and in the future until the FAO released the report “Climate change implications for fisheries and aquacultureâ€.
According to this report, tuna populations may...
Source: Business MirrorLocal exporters of fisheries products no longer face any hurdles in shipping their products to European countries after the European Union (EU) has deemed Manila compliant with its requirements for the illegal, unregulated and...
Source: Radio NZThe Marshall Islands says by the end of the year, the country needs to triple the current number of observers of the tuna boats working out of Majuro.The Marine Resources Authority’s director, Glen Joseph, says his agency has an...
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Natalia Freitas, reporting for Atuna.comA British report concludes that the large variety of seafood eco-labels is causing consumer’s confusion and leading shoppers to leave the sustainability...
Source: EFEFifteen of the 18 people aboard the 1361 M/T Venezuelan tuna purse seiner Calypso that capsized in the Caribbean were rescued Monday by the Colombian navy, authorities said.
The Calypso is owned by the Venezuelan company Avencasa - and is...
Source: AFNClean Seas Tuna has announced further progress in their bid to become the first company to successfully close the lifecycle of Southern Bluefin Tuna in captivity. The news comes three months after Southern Bluefin Tuna quotas were cut by...
Source: Australia ToThe 56 meter long, 696 GRT Taiwanese fishing vessel FV WIN FAR 161 with the registration CT7-0485 and call-sign BI-2485 was seized April 6, 2009 near the Seychelles. The tuna long-liner is said to have been observed earlier to...
Source: Jakarta GlobeThe Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will seek to renegotiate hefty import duties charged by Middle Eastern countries on fishery products, as part of a plan to diversify the country’s fishery industry. Middle Eastern...
Source: Manila Bulletin
President Arroyo leads a cast of local officials - among them Susan Jackson of the ISSF, that would help craft a viable plan to promote the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) forged years ago to preserve 30 percent of the...
Source: Yeshiva WNThe secularists leading the battle against Chabad and yiddishkeit in Ramat Aviv have announced a new measure, launching a boycott against the Star-Kist community, alleging the tuna company supports Chabad and the economic boycott...
Source: El UniversalAmid an economic downturn, and despite government plans to encourage exports, Guayana’s basic industries have had to minimize their production due to the severe power crisis hitting Venezuela.Rodolfo Sanz, the Minister of Basic...
Source: AFPA South Korean company said Tuesday it is planning a joint-venture factory in a free-trade zone in northeastern North Korea, the first such investment by Seoul in the faltering project.Food processor Merry Co said Pyongyang last month...
Source: Times of Malta
The Ghaqda Koperattiva tas Sajd insisted at a meeting with the Fisheries Department today that tuna fishermen who are not allowed to fish because of the severely reduced tuna quota should be made eligible to an EU scheme to...
Source: Solomon StarFourteen new local fishery observers took a two-week training to collect data on purse seine fishing last week in Honiara.Solomon Islands has 60 observers who have undergone similar training in the past.After this training,...
Source: GMA News
South Korean firm Wooriranch Co. Ltd. is looking at importing at least 200 metric tons (MT) of sashimi-grade tuna a month from the Philippines.Wooriranch Co. Ltd signed a deal with local producer Luenthai Fishing Ventures and the...
Source: European VoiceGreece’s Maria Damanaki gave a well-judged performance in her nomination hearing for a post in the European Commission, demonstrating a grasp of detail and a politically astute understanding of the big picture of fisheries...
Source: Malaya Business InsightCircle hooks will be required in long-line tuna fisheries by mid-year to reduce the number of sea turtle "by catch", or that which is discarded at sea, the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)...
Source: Business MirrorAn area in Timor-Leste that approximates the one the Philippines will lose temporarily during a two-year ban on tuna fishing may be substituted, to allow Filipino fishers and canners and exporters to keep on producing.The...
Source: VHeadlineThe multimillionaire Venezuelan businessman, Ricardo Fernandez Barrueco, currently jailed in Caracas on bank fraud charges, had been sent to Cuba by President Hugo Chavez to help the country recover from its economic slump and also...
Source: La CronicaMonday, at 00:00 hours, was the start of the commercial fishing season for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus), bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus orientalis) and skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis ) in waters...
Source: Oceana Press Release
A scientific report, published today, reveals that Europe will fail to reach the Johannesburg commitment of managing fisheries sustainable until 2015 by decades
Failed fisheries management in Europe does not comply...
Source: FOS Press ReleaseFriend of the Sea, in response to the recent WWF report on fisheries eco-labels, requests WWF to correct its attitude towards MSC’s alternative seafood certification schemes.
WWF is the founder, sponsor and main supporter...
Source: El PaisTwo of the 36 sailors from the Basque tuna seiner Alakrana kidnapped for 47 days in Somali waters, have applied to be admitted as party in the trial, which will take place during the coming months, against Hasan Raageggesey Aji and...
Source: Malaya Business Insight160 fishing operators and buyers who attended the first-ever business summit to address overexploitation and overfishing in the Coral Triangle have promised not to source their products from illegal, unregulated and...
Source: Manila BulletinAs the tuna war between the two companies worsens, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Wednesday said it will step into the fray.Trade and Industry Undersecretary Zenaida C. Maglaya said the DTI is going to mediate...
By AtunaBluefin tuna is currently the species with great visibility in Europe due to its endangered status. Environmental organizations are pressuring the EU to insert bluefin on the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Fauna and...
Source: Business MirrorManila is in the process of drafting a proposal involving the conservation of fisheries resources, particularly tuna, for funding under the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI).Environment Undersecretary Manuel Gerochi said the...
Source: El PaisThe Ministry of Environment and the Spanish Junta have recently assured the operational activities of the four trap-nets fisheries of Cadiz engaged in catching bluefin tuna, despite the 40% quota reduction imposed by international...
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Natalia Freitas, reporting for Atuna.comTuna prices seem to be firming up worldwide this year, with more significant increases in Asia and Europe.In Asia Skipjack 1.8kg up is now being traded at...
By AtunaThai Union Group has recently signed a contract for using “Carbon Footprint†trademark in its Green Curry Canned Tuna.
The Group, represented by Mr. Somsak Smittiset, Factory Manager of Thai Union Manufacturing Co. Ltd., took part in the...
Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West CenterWith Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘iSource: Marianas VarietyThe new fishing requirement that all purse seiners operating in the Pacific must have an observer...
Source: Times UKA company belonging to the U.K Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser is opposing plans to create the world’s biggest marine reserve. His company holds a government contract to manage fishing in the area, which would be banned if the...
Source: KCBYDuring the Oregon Albacore Commission's meeting Thursday, administrator Nancy Fitzpatrick presented a preliminary report from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on last year’s albacore season.During 2009, ODFW says tuna had...
Source: ABC NewsProfessor Meeuwig says the monitoring reports contain little information and lack transparency.The environmental monitoring program in the wake of last year's oil spill in the Timor Sea has been described as ‘superficial’.
The...
Source: Philippine Information AgencyThe SOCSARGEN Federation of Fishing Associations and Allied Industries is filing an appeal for reconsideration with the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) to lift the fishing ban it imposed...
Source: Times of MaltaThe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will not be getting much rest after the Japanese whaling season as it announced it is heading to the Mediterranean to oppose the illegal operations of Bluefin tuna poachers.Both Sea...
Source: MindaNewsSome 1,600 workers of various fishing companies here may likely lose their jobs within the next few weeks as a result of the fishing ban that started earlier this month in the critical high seas off the Western and Central Pacific...
Source: El Diario Ecuador10 companies within the Ecuadorian Chamber of Industry Tuna Processors (CEIPA) have united to help the earthquake victims in Haiti by donating 2 thousand cartons of canned tuna.The donation was delivered last week to the...
Source: CBS 8Storms can cause big damage, but as some San Diegans are learning, it can also lead to a big catch. Dozens of blue fin tuna are washing ashore in Imperial Beach, and experts think they know why.Blue fin tuna are known as ‘hard tails’...
Source: ABCConservationists have hit back at claims from the tuna industry that the Southern Bluefin tuna population is booming. The tuna season in Port Lincoln is expected to finish six weeks earlier than normal because three-quarters of the quota...
Source: The InquirerThe European Union has accredited the Philippines as a legal and sustainable source of tuna.According to Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) director Malcolm Sarmiento, the Philippines conforms to rules shunning tuna...
Source: ABC
Tuna boats have arrived back in Port Lincoln after only being at sea for a fortnight.
There are so many fish at sea that three-quarters of the quota has already been caught.
The season is expected to be finished six weeks earlier than...
By AtunaEuropean Union new regulations to control IUU fishing was put into effect last January 1st and requires a new set of documentation and certification emitted by the home country from which tuna and other fish products come from. Although it...
Source: Financial TimesJapanese sushi lovers may see prized deliveries of fresh Bluefin tuna taken off the menu this year following a surprise decision by Italy to support the listing of the giant migratory fish as an endangered species and ban its...
By AtunaA study done by Spanish and Canadian scholars over the environmental impacts caused by Spanish purse-seiner tuna fisheries concluded that vessels fishing in the Pacific Ocean had the highest global warming potential based on a life cycle...
Source: Prodigy MSNThe commercial fishing season, by the Mexican fleet, for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), bigeye tuna and big eye tuna (Thunnus obesus), bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus orientalis) and skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) in waters...
Source: Radio New Zealand
The former head of the now disbanded French Polynesian GIP intervention force, Rere Puputauki, has appeared in Papeete’s criminal court over charges over the running of the now defunct group.The prosecution has asked for...
Source: AAP Coastal anglers are being encouraged to record on a website the number of longtail tuna they catch so scientists can monitor the fish population.Longtail tuna, also named tonggol or tongol, often mistakenly referred to as northern...
Source: The Guardian Co UKThe retailer is the first high street name to sign the Seafood Charter, which aims to protect Europe's waters from overfishingMarks & Spencer has become the first major high street name to sign a new charter that...
Source: LV Review-JournalMore than half of canned tuna samples from a local grocery store failed to meet the strict Environmental Protection Agency safety level for mercury in fish, according to a new study by University of Nevada, Las Vegas...
Source: Subsecretaria de Recursos PesquerosIATTC / Ecuador MeetingThe Director of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, IATTC, Guillermo Compean Jimenez, started a meeting on Wednesday with the Undersecretary of Fisheries Resources MAGAP, in...
Source: DNA IndiaThe central government has taken up with Sri Lanka the issue of illegal fishing by Sri Lankan fishermen in Indian waters, a top Indian coast guard official said last week.The number of Sri Lankan boats being seized in Indian waters...
