Source: Los Angeles TimesTwo commercial fishing captains from San Diego pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally fishing for albacore tuna in Mexican waters without the permits required by Mexican law and an international treaty.
Nathan Lee, 36,...
Source: The GrocerNew England Seafood International (NESI), a major supplier of fish to the multiples, is looking for external investors to raise finance to grow the business. Cavendish Corporate Finance has been instructed to handle the matter, and...
Source: The Mainichi Daily News
When the March 11 tsunami struck the fishing port of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Shuichiro Fujita, the president of a company selling cases for freshly caught skipjack tuna, lost his home and company facilities,...
Source: 9 NewsClean Seas Tuna is encouraged by the survival of some of the Southern Bluefin Tuna juveniles in its first sea trials to grow juvenile fish.The fish farming company is researching ways to close the life cycle of Southern Bluefin Tuna in...
Source: Seattle WeeklyThe growth of bluefin tuna ranching an aquaculture technique promoted as a way of alleviating pressure on wild bluefin populations, has largely wiped out the local sardine season. As recently as five years ago, local sardines...
Source: Port Lincoln TimesA tuna meeting in Bali next month will see stock levels assessed and the local industry continuing to push for a return of quota levels lost in 2009.Southern bluefin tuna industry association chief executive officer Brian...
Source: The SunTesco was slammed last night after it slashed petrol prices - for people buying cans of tuna.The supermarket giant is cutting 15p per liter off pump prices for shoppers. But they have to spend GBP 50 in store.And two of the purchases...
Source: Business InquirerSeafood processing firm Alliance Select Foods International Inc. sees net profits this year doubling to $3.2 million from a year ago on higher export earnings from tuna and salmon products.Massachusetts-based salmon smoking...
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Environmental NGO Greenpeace campaigned last week against the Korea’s largest fishing company Sajo Industries to protest against its presumed responsibility for the decline of Pacific tuna stocks and the indiscriminate high amount of...
By AtunaThe European tuna industry organization Eurothon pleaded last week, before the European Parliament, to call off on the partnership agreement allowing Papua New Guinea to export its tuna products duty-free into Europe. This due to the fact...
Source: African ManagerThe European Union (EU) will open negotiations with Gabon to conclude a new fisheries agreement as the current deal, struck on 3 December, 2005, expires 2 December, 2011.A press service of the European Commission recalled...
Source: NOAANOAA last week announced quotas and other measures for bluefin tuna that underscore the nation’s commitment to sustainable science-based management of this vital fish stock. The allocations divide the available 2011 U.S. bluefin tuna...
Source: El Faro de VigoMost of the 27 European Union member states last week rejected a proposal from the European Commission (EC) to reduce by 25 percent the potential annual allowable catch of fish stocks for which there is insufficient scientific...
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The US based GeoEye Inc. won the contract to supply the fishery fleet of the Maldives -among them the tuna vessels of the traditional pole and line fleet- with their Vessel Monitoring Systems. The American provider of satellite and...
Source: The AustralianVictor Smorgon Group, the investment company formed by the late patriarch of the billionaire Smorgon family, is selling a strategic stake in its southern bluefin tuna business.Tony’s Tuna is seeking a strategic investor to help...
Source: EFEThe Spanish Defense Minister, Mrs. Carmen Chacon, arrived on Monday to the Seychelles Island for an official visit with the President of Seychelles, Mr. James A. Michel, to discuss the collaboration in the fight against piracy in the...
By AtunaSpanish consumers may not be very well informed about the nutritional value of the day-to-day products they buy in the supermarket, but the have a very positive view on its nutritional ingredients. That is the outcome of a marketing enquiry...
Source: EnsenadaAlthough the market for bluefin tuna remained low in 2009 due to the global economic downturn, it has been recovering in the meantime and the Ensenada bluefin tuna farming industry has good expectations for 2011.Jerome Ramos...
Offering ships 24-hour service and off-load tuna in a more cost-effective and less time-consuming way
Source: XinhuaThe Seychelles Port Authority ( SPA ) is investing heavily in equipment to boost service delivery in Port Victoria, the main sea...
Source: FishSiteAccording to Vietnamese Customs, during the first four months of 2011, exports of tuna reported 31,000 metric tons (MT), worth USD 148 million – up nearly 16 percent in volume and 36.5 percent in value on those of the same period of...
Source: AFPThe Seychelles sentenced five Somalis to 18 years in prison for attacking two French fishing boats in the Indian Ocean in November.The country's supreme court handed down the sentences Thursday for the men caught after a failed attack...
Source: SeafoodSourceNew research shows that retailers in the UK are achieving a price premium of more than 14 percent, and obtaining higher sales, for products bearing the Marine Stewardship Council eco-label.The study, published in the Journal of...
Source: ISSF Press ReleaseA research vessel has returned safely to the Seychelles after a two week cruise in the Indian Ocean to study the behavior of sharks and other fish species swimming around fish aggregating devices (FADs). The project went on...
Source: Science Daily
For the first time, all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) have been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Speciesâ„¢. Of the 61 known species,...
Source: Fish Information and ServicesDuring the first month of the Atlantic Albacore (Thunnus alalunga) season, the market in Burela auctioned 95,000 kilograms of this tuna species. This volume represents a 17.4 percent decrease compared to the same...
Source: The GuardianFive out of the eight tuna species are at risk of extinction, conservationists warned last week, as they called for urgent action to tackle over-fishing.The latest assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
Source: Associated PressTuna fisherman Jim Clayholt said Friday he and his son rigged makeshift sails to keep their disabled boat on course as they drifted south for five days along the Oregon Coast.The 54-year-old Clayholt and his 23-year-old son,...
Source: ISSF Press Release
Today ISSF will host a conference focused on the role of rights-based management (RBM) in creating sustainable tuna fisheries.
“Fair and equitable rights-based management is a cornerstone of a sustainable tuna...
Source: Fish and Information ServicesAuthorities of the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) and the Spanish Food Safety Agency (AESAN) met with representatives of the sector related to the capture, processing and marketing of...
Source: Sign On San Diego
Commercial fisherman Scott Hawkins set out from San Diego in the Jody H last June and spent two days in Mexican waters, where he fished for albacore. He said he idled there to avoid strong winds during a planned voyage...
Source: The LeaderThe Spanish Food Safety Agency (AESAN) has recommended caution when consuming Tuna because it has recently detected high levels of mercury in the fish. In the wake of the recent problems experienced following the unwarranted German...
Source: Sunday TimesThe popular edible fish Kelawalla (Yellowfin Tuna) is a “near threatened†species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The world’s commercially targeted fish are in decline mainly because of...
Source: ABCPapua New Guinea says it’s open to renegotiating a major regional fishing agreement with the United States.In April PNG withdrew from the twenty five year old South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which involves thirteen countries and the US, and...
Source: PR NewsWire
Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc., a holding company of fish farming operations supplying sashimi-grade Northern Bluefin Tuna to the global market, announces that it has completed credit facilities and closed loans, which in the...
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Vigo based fishing company Pescapuerta, the number two company in frozen fish on the Spanish market, and the technological development company Vicusdt started a project that should result in up to 30 percent energy savings in big freezer...
Source: ISSF Press ReleaseISSF announced it feels that momentum continues to build for a global approach to improving the sustainability of the world’s tuna resources, as a Spanish processor and a cannery from Thailand are the latest to join the...
Source: PNA Press ReleaseThe Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) are one step closer to gaining the globally recognized MSC eco-label for sustainable harvested tuna, after the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) accepted and published the very...
Source: Fish and Information ServicesThe Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA) anticipated that the Government aims to train skilled manpower in high seas fisheries in order to secure the capture of resources of great commercial value, such as...
Source: Diario VascoThe Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has requested an open trial against one of Spain’s largest alleged tax evaders, businessman Juan Ramon R. Gipuzkoa M., requesting 39 years imprisonment, an Euro 54.5 million fine and a compensation...
Source: BBC NewsThe EU Commission has proposed major changes to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), designed to cut waste and stop overfishing in European waters. Under the plan, the existing system of fishing quotas - which often leads to tonnes of...
Source: Fish and Information ServicesBrazil will have to wait a little longer than expected to for its new atlantic tuna terminal, which was planned to boost regional tuna catches.While the former Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA), Ideli...
Source: SeafoodSourceThe recently started Aquaculture Stewardship Council on Wednesday appointed Chris Ninnes as CEO.As former deputy chief executive of the Marine Stewardship Council, Ninnes has a deep knowledge of the changing market developments...
Source: Diario VascoNot only are tuna catches limited, but there is also a supply increase from other countries on the Spanish market. Tuna caught in foreign seas are invading the Spanish market as if they had been fished by the Spanish fleet....
Source: Radio SucreThis year’s first tuna fishing ban period in the Eastern Pacific Ocean will be from July 29 to September 28. In Ecuador, 53 vessels are requested to respect the biological ban.The Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and...
Source: Pattaya MailThe Thai Department of Export Promotion (DEP) has warned Thai seafood exporters to brace themselves for possible impacts from the Commercial Seafood Consumer Protection Act, which will be enforced by the US in six months.
DEP...
Source: El DiarioThe local tuna industries In Ecuador bet more on the local and South American market, positioning more on their own brand without affecting production volumes, said Juan Carlos Calero, the manager of Conservas Isabel Ecuador in...
Source: WWF Press ReleaseFollowing this week’s release of the European Commission’s proposal for a reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), WWF urges the European Parliament and Member States to step up to the challenge of saving Europe’s seas...
Source: ABCAquaculture and fishing industries on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula say they’ll be hit hard by the new carbon tax rules.Chief executive of the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association, Brian Jeffriess, says, while there hasn’t yet...
Source: La Voz de GaliciaThe Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Cepesca) stated that the list released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which includes five types of tuna on a list of endangered species published in the...
Source: ABC NewsThe tuna industry on Eyre Peninsula is mourning the loss of one of its pioneers, Dinko Lukin.Mr. Lukin died this morning after a long illness.The chief executive of the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association, Brian Jeffries,...
Source: Adelaide Now
The state’s $260 million southern bluefin tuna industry is sweating on the outcome of its future catch quotas.
The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna - an intergovernmental organization responsible for...
Source: Agencia Peruana de NoticiasThe Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) granted Peru an additional 5,000 cubic meters of quota capacity for tuna fishing in the waters of the country, which added to the 3,195 cubic meters it had so...
Source: The EcologistSupport from UK supermarkets to phase out tuna caught with damaging fishing gear could make the Western Pacific tuna the world’s first sustainable industrial fishery.UK environmentalists have won commitments from most of the...
Source: BYM MarineSea Shepherd Conservation Society’s campaigns are often unpredictable, and they must always be prepared for obstacles, hurdles, ambushes, and blindsided sucker punches. Just as they were about to depart Lerwick in the Shetland...
Source: Adelaide Now
One of South Australia’s richest men is being sued for not paying a bill for work he ordered on his mansion.
Tuna fishing magnate Hagen Stehr, who was worth $271 million in BRW’s rich list in 2008, is being pursued by a Port...
Source: Bangkok Post
Thai Union Frozen Plc (TUF), Thailand’s largest seafood exporter, is confident it can achieve a 40% increase in sales this year to at least USD 3 billion despite the European debt crisis, says president Thiraphong Chansiri....
Source: Wall Street JournalThe World Trade Organization has sided with Mexico in a two-decade long trade battle with the U.S. over whether Mexico’s tuna fish is “dolphin safe,†Mexican officials said Tuesday.The U.S. can appeal the decision, taken...
Source: The Canadian PressFishermen in Prince Edward Island have their allocation of bluefin tuna for this year and efforts have been made to impose catch limitations while expanding the season to prevent a repeat of last year’s two day binge.The...
Source: Fish UpdateSainsbury’s “switch the fish†campaign last month resulted in a 12 per cent increase in fish sales, the supermarket group has said.On Friday June 17th stores around the country offered customers asking for one of the ‘Big Five’...
Source: Summit County Citizen Voice
More than 50 countries have taken a small step to combat unreported, unregulated and illegal fishing that is decimating numerous species of commercially important species like tuna. Illegal fishing results in...
Source: Vietnam News
Vietnam exported 43,430 tons of tuna in the first half of the year, earning US$220 million, an increase of 10.1 percent in volume and 33.1 percent in value, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and...
Source: Radio NZThe Parties to the Nauru Agreement, the PNA, are close to gaining a globally recognised eco-label for sustainable harvested tuna.The PNA includes the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua...
Source: 9 NewsSouth Australian Fisheries Minister Michael O’Brien says he hopes the Southern Bluefin tuna quota will be increased with the current debate over catch limits the most important for 20 years.The scientific committee of the international...
Source: Fish Information Services
Grupo Herdez has just bought a tuna vessel with a capacity to capture more than 4,000 tons of tuna per year for which USD 7.5 million was paid.
The manager of the Group’s financial planning, Andrea Amozurrutia...
Source: Samoa NewsWestern Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is disappointed with the decision by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to disapprove proposed Amendment 3 to the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Fisheries of...
Source: Times of MaltaA group calling itself the Animal Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for “liberating†Atlantic bluefin tuna by cutting the nets of “fattening pens†in St Paul’s Bay on Tuesday night.“This species is on the brink of...
Source: ABCAn international milestone was achieved by the Researchers at the Oceanographic Center of Murcia last week. The research team, belonging to the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), obtained about 20,000 larvae of bluefin tuna...
Source: EnsenadaAlthough news sources last week announced the WTO’s ruling in favor of Mexico on the “dolphin safe†tuna embargo issue, the victory did not cause the expected reactions of gladness in the Mexican tuna port of Ensenada.For those who...
Source: Times of MaltaThe Maltese tuna company that took on the Sea Shepherd and filed a civil lawsuit for damages in the English High Court is confident it can win the case.“I hope justice wins. I’m confident we can win the case, otherwise we...
Source: John West Press ReleaseFrom September 2011, John West will roll out a new range of pole and line sourced tuna products. The introduction of the new range is a significant investment for John West, one of the UK’s leading canned seafood...
Source: Samoa NewsThe former CEO and president of the U.S. based StarKist Company, owner of StarKist Samoa tuna cannery in Pago Pago, has been hired by an American food company.Donald Binotto served as StarKist boss for several years before he was...
PNA Leaders ask World Community to join in CelebrationSource: PNA Press ReleasePNA Ministers, in the 78th FFC Ministerial Meeting in Apia, Samoa, have announced that from next year on they will celebrate WORLD TUNA DAY on MAY 2nd as an Annual World...
Source: Smart Planet
Umami Sustainable Seafood CEO Oli Steindorsson
Although many argue that bluefin tuna should be protected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Endangered Species Act, Umami Sustainable Seafood CEO Oli...
Source: Sunday ObserverBanning of indiscriminate fishing methods, launching of the Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) as well as enforcement of regulations by the government has helped the fisheries sector to maintain exports.President Seafood...
Source: Asian TribuneSri Lanka’s to commission a canned fish factory in early August this year at Galle, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister, Rajitha Senaratne had said.Minster Senaratne had further noted that the factory will be able to...
By AtunaThe European Commission (EC) has selected a team of consultants to review the agreements that the European Union (EU) keeps with Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Fiji.However, the National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Seafood...
Source: Greenpeace NZ Press ReleaseAn announcement yesterday that means all the main tuna brands in the UK are shifting to greener fishing methods has set a sustainability benchmark that New Zealand must follow says Greenpeace.John West confirmed it...
Source: AGIThe port authorities of Maddalena in Sardinia, Italy, have found some one thousand administrative violations. Obligatory fishing and trading documents have been falsified for bluefin tuna – a species that is at risk of extinction. Seventy...
Source: Times of Malta The Sea Shepherd fisheries conservation society has so far collected USD 442,279.37 out of the $1,411,692.87 it needs for a bond on its flagship, which has been detained by court order at a Scottish port following a request by...
Source: Japan TimesThe Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, commonly known as the Tsukiji fish market, reopened its popular frozen tuna auction to sightseers Tuesday after a four-month closure following the March 11 quake and tsunami.An...
Source: ABCThe proponents of a Swim with the Tuna proposal for Kangaroo Island have countered claims the venture will not suit the island’s tourism profile.Conservationists say plans to boost tourism numbers could endanger the island’s natural image...
Source: Europa PressSeprona, the Nature Protection Service of Alicante police in Spain, has seized a batch of bluefin tuna at the wholesale auction, coming from an illegal fishing operation in Italy, according to a Press Release issued by command...
Source: PNA Press ReleaseThe Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Ministers returned to their countries this week from their recent meeting in Samoa, with strong PNA positions calling for distant water fishing nations to take their own conservation...
