Rejected tuna products delivered to various canneries here has significantly declined over the last several months due to the improved fish handling practices by local tuna fishermen.
Domingo Teng, president of the Socsksargen Federation of Fishing...
Blue and White Food of Queens, in the United Sates is recalling some cans of tuna because they might be contaminated with listeria.
Of concern are the company's seven-ounce containers of Sabra Smoked Whitefish Salad. The product is distributed...
In Australia a report that six people suffered scombroid fish poisoning after eating in a Japanese restaurant has sparked a public health warning.
The latest issue of the journal Emergency Medicine says the six people fell ill, but all recovered,...
The Italian Food authorities issued a instruction by which it forbids the import and sales of tuna steaks treated with carbon monoxide or a patented process called “clear smokeâ€.
Tuan steaks imported in Italy on May 29th 2003 were still accepted to...
Today custom agents throughout Northern Europe submitted their clearance instructions and documents to EU Customs for canned tuna. Today, July 1st, 2003, is the first day of the “EU Single Duty†Quota. However it already seems that a potential...
A Spanish corporation is building 10 tuna Bluefin farms in Panamá. The project is promoted by the Duty Free Zone of Barú (DFZ Barú). Recently, the first tuna cage, within the project was installed in Charco Azul Bay, located in the Gulf of Chiriqui,...
Malcolm Myers, a Cape Town yachtsman reported missing at sea weeks ago, motored into Table Bay harbor, South Africa on Friday after a terrifying ordeal in the merciless South Atlantic.
He ran out of food and fuel, suffered from scurvy and fought...
Del Monte Foods, Inc.'s (DLM), which owns the StarKist tuna brand, expects that near term fluctuations in cash flow generation may result as management has taken a less price promotional approach in some of its categories including StarKist tuna...
Looking to refute claims that marine resources are declining, the Japanese Fisheries Agency has released a 329-page report declaring that stocks of most fish, whales and tuna are in good supply.
The report lists the stock of 50 species, including...
The National Galapagos Park, the artisan fishermen and the Scientific Site Charles Darwin try to minimize the impact of the artisan fishing near the coasts. They have therefore developed a pilot plan for deep-sea fishing. This consists out of...
In a rare mood of openness the European Union has published the complete list of official reported serious infringements and imposed penalties on all EU fishing vessels.
The information that is supplied in this statement is based on reports by each...
SeaWeb, an ocean conservation organization, yesterday released its report, "What Price Farmed Fish: A Review of the Environmental and Social Costs of Farming Carnivorous Fish," authored by Michael Weber, a marine conservation consultant. This timely...
Mr. Arnulfo Franco, Director General of Marine Resources of Panama, chairman of the 9th meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP), which was held in Antigua, Guatemala during 23-25 June,...
The IATTC has restrictions on the size of the purse seine fleet, but catches from longline vessels have increased dramatically during the last two years, probably because of a movement of vessels from other areas.
For the first time, at the 70th...
Members of the Tuna Canners Association of the Philippines (TCAP) are expecting a $5-6 million profit increase this year after the European Union (EU) council granted a reduction of tariff on tuna coming from the Philippines effective July 1....
The Philippine government will ask the World Trade Organization (WTO) for more international market access in the bi-annual Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico in September but added, it will continue protecting it’s own weak industries.
Trade...
The U.S. Tuna Foundation commends an international committee on food additives for setting a recommended mercury consumption level that recognizes the safety and benefits of tuna.
The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), administered...
The United States government granted the Philippines additional $30 million in duty-free export access under the generalized system of preferences (GSP) program, the United States Embassy in Manila said on Wednesday.
US Embassy spokesman Dr. Frank...
The smaller vessels of the Basque coastal fleet that are participating in the Albacore campaign are reporting better catches than last month.
Each of these hook and line vessels have landed an average 7,000 kg of Albacore in the last few days. This...
Around 100 of the world's top scientists are on the Sunshine Coast of Australia this week discussing the state of the world's tuna and billfish fisheries.
The International Standing Committee of tuna and billfish will focus on the latest...
The Spanish Agriculture minister Miguel Arias gave his support to the scheme organized by FROM, the seafood promotional organization, which will focus on two advertising campaigns running in July and September and highlighting in particular the...
A reefer carrier vessel has been brought to Maldivian Tuna Cannery MIFCO to collect and export frozen fish to Bangkok, or other markets for frozen whole round skipjack tuna.
According to MIFCO, the reefer carrier, “MV Barosa,†can store 1,550 metric...
The Philippines failed to get the additional $100 million more in export privileges committed by the Bush administration under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (USGSP) as the U.S. Congress only approved $30 million worth of benefits to...
The European Union has allowed 32 Vietnamese seafood enterprises to export their products to the single market, bringing the total number of seafood exporters to the EU to 94.
This is the EU’s acknowledgement of Vietnam’s efforts to control seafood...
Understanding tuna metabolism, verifying kingfish escapes and reducing by-catch in trawl nets are just some of the areas that will benefit from the latest round of fisheries research funding.
A total of $3.25 million was distributed to 11 South...
Robert G. Thibault, The Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today announced this year's quota for bluefin tuna has been set at 620 tons.
For 2003, Canada will continue to work with an allocation system based on fleet caps, as is outlined...
Nervousness is spreading in the Ecuadorian tuna sector; concentrated in the port of Manta, about the recent decision by the IATTC (Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission) to implement a tuna-fishing ban again this year.
During the last meeting of...
MIFCO, the only tuna canner in the Maldives, will introduce a 1,880 gram tuna can to the market on Wednesday.
The canning of fish in Maldives marked its 25th anniversary and MIFCO marked its 10th anniversary. The fisheries company is celebrating...
Unlike other success stories, what triggered this city's economic boom was not the entry of huge capitalists or the influx of major investments. The small, homegrown ventures helped spur growth in this southern city.
Several local companies...
After fighting a fierce battle last year against the IATTC ban, which prohibited tuna fishing in the EPO, once again Ecuadorian tuna industrialists are considering what their position will be this year, now they are again facing a similar two-month...
The ongoing construction of the SST Tuna Loining plant in Papua New Guinea has created an upsurge in business activities in Wewak and Maprik, which the Sepik Chamber of Commerce and Industry says is the first good news for East Sepik in a long time....
To improve lunchtimes, in the U.K. McDonald's has introduced a tuna pasta salad to its new tastes menu for summer. These lighter menu options have less than 5 per cent fat and can contribute towards your five-a-day target for fruit and...
Australia’s Sunshine Coast could lose its $80 million Bluefin tuna fishing fleet to New South Wales by next month.
The tuna fleet is threatening to move to Coffs Harbor unless the state government dredges the bar at the entrance to Mooloolaba...
The exports of fresh tuna out of the small port of Lae, in Papua New Guinea, for the lucrative Japanese sashimi market, took a turn for the better with the launch yesterday of a direct charter service between Lae and Brisbane in Australia. Lae is...
According to information released by the U.S. based Earth Island Institute (EII), the Area Director of Heinz European Seafood, Mr. Adolfo Valsecchi has issued and signed a statement on July 2nd 2003, in which he states that his company will not...
The canned tuna volume from the Philippines, which has applied for EU single duty quota, has almost reached the maximum of 9,000 M/T. To date 8,433 M/T of canned tuna has been imported from the Philippines and importers have presented customs with...
Alarmed by the Philippines’ fast depleting tuna production, the country’s Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. on Friday ordered the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to accelerate the drafting of an administrative order increasing...
The government body overseeing Australia's southern bluefin tuna fishery says it can expect greater monitoring under changes to be announced next week.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has been overhauling the industry's...
The RD Group, producer of Diana canned fish brand, is serious about its investments in Papua New Guinea and is here for the long haul, according to its chairman and president Rodrigo E. Rivera.
Rivera said the Somare Government's export driven...
Taiwan has been an observer in an inter-American tuna commission under the name Taipei, but was forced to officially join as Chinese Taipei, reported Taiwanese press.
The nation's upcoming entry into the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission...
StarKist(R) Seafood, a division of Del Monte Corporation (NYSE: DLM), yesterday announced the national introduction of StarKist Tuna Creations(TM), a new product line of delicious, lightly marinated tuna that will transform the tuna category once...
The Volpak SG horizontal pouch machine is a new generation of horizontal packaging machines utilizing recent advances in technology and precision that ensure a high level of efficiency and throughput.
One of the most outstanding features of the SG...
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is appalled to have discovered that a $400 bounty has led to the capture and confinement of up to 200 dolphins, by local fishermen in the Solomon Islands, north of Australia.
Local fishermen...
Michael Morrissey at the OSU Seafood Lab wrote an informative advisory that notes the tremendous variation in mercury content among the various tuna species. This makes it confusing when a general level is published in FDA tables and applied to all...
A planned multimillion-dollar fish cannery for Portland, Australia is possibly less than 12 months away from reality with the project's proponent still evaluating products and costs.
Australian Fishing Enterprises principal Sam Sarin confirmed...
Sorting out what’s safe to eat in the confusion over health benefits and contaminants
Scientists have become increasingly enthusiastic about the health benefits associated with eating fish, particularly as they study the effects of omega-3 fatty...
The tuna vessel Pepe Milena, with Peruvian flag, arrived last Friday to the Isabela Island, of the Galapagos group of islands, carrying the body of the deceased 17 year-old fisherman Ruben Garcia Chunga and survivor Henry Chunga Macias, who were...
Earlier this week in Brussels the European Commission confirmed the renewal of the existing fishing agreement between the EU and Guinea Conakry for a period of five years.
The agreement allows the Communitarian fleet to continue operating in the EEZ...
Sustainability of tuna resources, market expansion and government expansion efforts in supporting the tuna industry are among the major issues to be discussed at the 5th Philippine National Tuna Congress.
Scheduled in General Santos City for...
A respected independent study organization has concluded that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration guideline on mercury content in fish "ensures" public safety, and that basing regulations on any stricter standard would be "neither necessary nor...
The Ghana Tuna Traders Association (GTTA) at Tema on Wednesday donated food items, clothing and toiletries worth 25 million cedis and an amount of one million cedis cash to the Missionaries of Charity, Sisters of Mother Theresa Home at Ashaiman as...
On Friday, July 18, 2003 at 9 p.m. on PBS, NOW with Bill Moyers examines how the influence of the Tuna industry on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be putting Americans and their children at risk for mercury poisoning. The report exposes...
Fifteen Australian Bluefin tuna boats are heading for the Cook Islands on a pioneering trip.
Some of them might even remain there. While preparing for the two-week voyage, Mark Chambers, owner of two Napier boats on the trip, said “if all goes off...
Part of the albacore tuna fleet, much of which splits its year between the North and South Pacific Ocean chasing fish, is once again not far from here. Good-sized tuna are biting off Oregon and much of the fleet is working the water there. A few...
The venture qualifies for tax credits and would be established off the Waianae Coast. It would be like a ranch in the ocean.
But instead of cattle, a University of Hawaii professor is hoping to raise and fatten ahi in open ocean cages off the...
Only a handful of Island tuna fishers are out on the waters attempting to land one of the mammoth fish despite the opening of the 2003 season Tuesday, said Don Aldous, a consultant with the United Tuna Fishermen's Association.
Aldous, in a...
Island Enterprises, a private Maldivian company that exports fish, said although the price of fish in the Thailand market is at the rate of US$700 to US$750 per M/T, the amount of fish purchased from Maldives fishermen is low.
“During June and...
The Minister of State in charge of Fisheries, Mr. Eddie Akita, announced on Friday that Ghana is considering placing a temporary ban on the importation of vessels of all types into the country. This is because for the last few years, "we have...
The first contingent of the biggest Australian force deployed in the Pacific since World War II left yesterday for a dangerous and uncertain mission in the Solomon Islands.
Anxious families farewelled about 600 troops and military support personnel...
In a press Statement the Fiji Ministry of Fisheries & Forests recognizes that the Fiji tuna long line fishing industries for the fresh fish market is going through some very difficult times at present. Fiji Minister for Fisheries and Forests,...
Fish and other foods rich in a type of beneficial fat may help prevent Alzheimer's disease, says a study out Tuesday. The new finding fits in with a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests Americans could reduce their risk of...
The Indonesia International and Regional Investment Forum (IIRIF) held in Jakarta has successfully attracted prospective investors with a total capital of Rp 3,036 trillion (US$368.7 million).
The IIRIF, which served as a forum for exchanges of...
The Tuna Foundation issued a statement in response to recent claims that FDA's methylmercury tolerance level is too high to protect consumers, including the Bill Moyers show that aired on PBS on July 18th.
In addition to the health benefits,...
Tuna vessels will require vessel monitoring systems (VMS) and companies will be required to estimate their tonnage of tuna transferred to tow cages while at sea, under new management proposals.The Australian Fisheries Management Authority on Monday...
A female shark named "Ticka" sporting a valuable and complex satellite tag has shown up in the waters off Port Lincoln, Australia.
The 3.5-metre shark was tagged by the Fox Shark Research Foundation at Dangerous Reef on July 12 with a special...
Chicken of the Sea International's parent company, Thai Union International, earlier this week announced the acquisition of Port Washington, N.Y.-based Empress International, Ltd. Empress, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, is one...
The city council of Davao City in the Philippines earlier this week approved a resolution asking Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo to increase the quantity of non-exportable tuna for distribution in the wet markets from 1.2 metric tons to five...
The European Commission adopted last Thursday a draft Regulation to curb the accidental capture of cetaceans such as dolphins and harbour porpoises in fishing gear, as this is threatening the conservation of these species. The measures taken by...
After years of silence, a former Japanese fisherman exposed to radiation during the 1954 Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb test by the United States in the Pacific has written a book that tells his own story of that almost forgotten incident.
"I can't...
The National Sea Institute of Peru (IMARPE) has signed an agreement of cooperation with the Japan Deep Sea Trawlers Association, to continue with research into the influence on fishing and tuna resources during and after the El Nino phenomenon.
The...
The First International Forum on tuna fishing in the Western Mediterranean commenced last Wednesday in Madrid, Spain, as contact point between the (tuna) fishing sector and representatives of the Administration and research titled “Regional...
One of Britain’s most experienced sailors, who rowed the North Atlantic with round-the-world yachtsman Chay Blyth in 1966, is to take on the pirate fishing fleets responsible for the deaths of thousands of endangered seabirds every year.
John...
Port Lincoln Australia tuna farm operator Hagen Stehr is calling for the State Government to ban research that aggravates white pointer sharks following the publication of spectacular white pointer photographs yesterday.
Stehr said the photographs,...
Seizing on the turmoil caused by a weekend military uprising, two Taiwanese fishing boats escaped Monday from a Philippine port where they had been detained on charges of illegal fishing, Taiwanese officials and media reports said.
Philippine Navy...
Unless countries change their management of the oceans, the world's fish supply will continue to shrink, several fishing experts said earlier this week at an East-West Center conference named “Leadership Seminar for Pacific Island Fisheries...
The Taiwanese government pledged to play a more active role in helping local tuna fishing boats and their crews that are currently detained by Philippine authorities for encroaching on the country's territorial waters. The Cabinet convened an...
A total of 290,208 kilograms of fresh fish, with a wholesale value of Lm799,420, were landed at the wholesale fish market in the second quarter of this year, a substantial increase in volume over the same period last year on the Mediterranean island...
In response to concerns about mercury exposure risks from canned tuna and other fish, the Food and Drug Administration is hosting a series of mercury stakeholder meetings this week. FDA met with representatives of the fishing industry yesterday,...
In fighting a surprising burst of illegal drift net use on the high seas, the U.S Coast Guard this month intercepted three fishing vessels from China and gathered evidence on two others using the so-called "curtains of death" northwest of Honolulu....
