Eating a portion of tuna, salmon, sardines or other oily fish once or twice a week reduces the risk of breast cancer, according to a review published by the British Medical Journal on Thursday.Researchers based in China looked at 26 previously...
Philippine canned tuna manufacturer Century Pacific expects growth in the second half of the year after sales flattish sales in the first six months.
“There [is] a lot of talk about the Philippines’ GDP growth this year because it is an election...
Tuna is to face a 15.6 percent tax increase in the United States after Ecuador has announced its decision to reject trade benefits and inject millions of dollars into human rights programs in the U.S.The announcement came after the U.S. threatened...
Bumble Bee, one of the top three tuna brands in the United States is expanding its product base with the introduction of a new frozen seafood range, but has left tuna out of the equation.While another leading U.S. tuna brand, StarKist, hasn’t been...
The number of bluefin tuna caught off the coasts of Pingtung County this year reached a total of 642 as of June 27, increasing by 200 from the same period last year, as a result of the signing of a fishery agreement with Japan in April and the...
The famous auction for the first-caught tuna of the season, a notable event held at the annual Pingtung Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival, is likely to be dropped next year in the wake of the shooting death of fisherman Hung Shih-chen, a ranking...
A new version of Rio Mare’s iTuna app has hit the virtual shelves of the Apple Store and Google Play.The tuna brand, owned by the Bolton Group has regenerated its app which now offers more interactive features in addition to its original cookbook,...
Japan’s yellowfin tuna exports have increased massively when compared to last year’s figures showing a 500 percent growth. The yellowfin tuna showed the biggest rise of all seafood exports from Japan, with salmon and trout following closely behind...
The Korean National Assembly has amended its fisheries law to help curb illegal fishing. The amendment to South Korea’s Water Fisheries Act, passed by the Korean National Assembly today, increases penalties for illegal fishing to a maximum of three...
Japan’s ITOCHU Corporation will help further strengthen Japan-Sri Lanka trade ties under which investments are to be made for expanding the island’s tuna fishing and banana industries and greater export opportunities will be provided for the...
Smaller processers and traders of tuna who will commit that their business complies with all International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) conservation measures are now being given the opportunity to join the International Seafood...
The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is seeking approval to export more goods from the country into the European Union and hopes to see the 24 percent import duty, which the Philippines’ tuna products are currently subjected to...
Tuna from Korea has made a significant contribution in the rise of Korean food exported to the Association of Southwest Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. The Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp. (aT) stated that Korean exports to ASEAN had grown to nine...
Thai Union Frozen Products Plc owners of the ‘Chicken of the Sea’ tuna brand has reported a 54 percent drop in first-quarter net profits this year, after an outbreak of shrimp disease has pushed up costs.The negative developments in the shrimps...
Italian tuna brand Mareblu who recently launched its media campaign with the slogan “good to taste, careful with the sea,†has introduced a new multi-pack tuna product with nine cans to satisfy consumers over the summer season.This new format of the...
French fishing group Sapmer predicts tuna to become the strength of its business after being granted ten licenses from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to fish for tuna in the Pacific Ocean.The licenses will now allow Sapmer, headed by CEO Yannick Lauri and...
Coop Italy, now the largest retail chain in Italy, with sales outlets in supermarkets in 17 of 20 Italian regions, has launched a new tuna product keeping in line with its values of sustainable consumption.Operating in the distribution of consumer...
Hawaii Oceanic Technology Inc. received a Canadian patent for its oceanspheres, CEO Bill Spencer said Monday.“Our goal ultimately is not so much to be tuna farmers,†Spencer said, but to license the company’s technology around the world.Hawaii...
Mike Babcock has a business opportunity that requires a bigger facility. The city of Coos Bay has an area of town it would like to see grow. The community will decide whether it’s a match made in tuna heaven.The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency will...
Written by Gwynn Guilford, QuartzThe world’s illegal fishermen never had it so good.Fishermen operating outside international law catch somewhere in the range of $10 billion to $23.5 billion in fish each year. And their incentives are only growing....
Exposure to bisphenol A from canned food, such as tuna, poses no health risk to the general population, Health Canada has said after conducting a survey into levels of the chemical in 78 products.
However, the agency also pointed out that its...
Using mainly small vessels, fishing in its own waters, Thailand is thought to be over exhausting its fish stocks and threatening its future tuna catch.Greenpeace, international non-profit organization known for its action aimed at environmental...
The European Parliament fisheries committee should reject a negotiated deal between the European Union (EU) and Kiribati, one of the Pacific Island Nations falling under the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) name, allowing ten Spanish flagged...
Philippine processor Alliance Select Foods International Inc. on Thursday said it has allotted $21 million in capital expenditures this year for its Philippine and Indonesian operations.During the company’s stockholders’ meeting, Alliance Select...
Video monitors will allow researchers to keep an eye on the bluefin tuna in the aquariumAn indoor aquarium was completed here on July 3 for the collection of fertilized bluefin tuna eggs, a possible big step toward completing the farming cycle for...
Tunidos del Pacifico, an Ecuadorian tuna packing firm, processing canned and pouched tuna is to face a criminal investigation into an accusation that the company has been a part of money laundering and drug trafficking. Proud to be part of the...
An Australian journalist and presenter: Al McGlahshan, has shared his experiences of getting up close and personal with southern bluefin tuna in a video taken when trolling for tuna off the Australia’s New South Wales coast.This species of tuna that...
A recent three year funding allocation from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) will allow continued work and progression in the management of tonggol tuna.Thailand’s tonggol tuna stocks, also known as longfin is under continued...
Italian tuna brand Nostromo is offering Sicilian style tuna steak to its customers as it launches its new range of ready meals called ‘Oggi Mare’ (Sea Today). Part of the Spanish Calvo Group, which has presence in over 65 countries, Nostromo has...
Growing competition for tuna between large industrial vessels and small-scale local fisheries has prompted a policy brief to alert Pacific Island nations of the problem which could have a huge effect on the catch of important tuna to these types of...
At 160 kilograms, it was the biggest bluefin tuna Todd Abbott had ever reeled in.The fish also was lucrative for the 25-year-old from Narooma, selling at auction at the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo for about AUS$ 16,000 two weeks ago.“It’s the...
Following reports in May in which a large quantity of bluefin tuna had been seized by Sicilian authorities, Coast Guards in Italy have again confiscated a substantial amount of the tuna species off the coast of Cape Teulada.
The 19 bluefin tuna,...
China hopes to climb the tuna business ladder and aims to become one of the world’s leading processors, with plans for a coastal city south of Shanghai to be home to 11 tuna processing companies with the help of the government.With government...
The expansion of Chinese fishing activities in the Indian Ocean has caused concern for India’s share of global tuna catch; it is triggering emotional reactions in India and some forecast that it will hit Indian Ocean coastal communities that rely on...
After continued expressions of interest by Ecuador to venture into a free tuna trade agreement with the European Union (EU), negotiations are being made in Brussels this week to decide on whether the request will be granted.
Ecuador seeks zero duty...
A campaign designed to encourage consumers to make informed choices about the food they eat will promote sustainable wild and farmed seafood with the endorsement of MSC and ASC labeled products.“Think Fish Week†has been announced for the second...
The Spanish tuna Calvo Group, market leader with its “Calvo†brand and owner of one of Italy’s best known brands, Nostromo, has been granted an increased flow of trade from its El Salvador processing plant to the European Union (EU).
The group is...
A tuna so rare that it is said to have last been caught five years ago has shown its astonishing golden color to fishermen just off the coast of the Philippines. The 138 pound golden bigeye tuna with a rare pigment color was line caught and after...
Following recent reports outlining the growing competition for tuna between large industrial vessels and small, local, artisanal fisheries, it seems that this problem is large scale and is affecting most of the Pacific Island countries and their...
Trucks loaded with headless frozen tuna carcasses speed down the waterfront as trading starts at Donggang fish market in southern Taiwan
Less than an hour after dawn, dozens of colorfully painted small boats are unloading their holds after weeks...
With the participation of only 52 of the world’s 1650+ purse seine vessels, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is waiving the joining fee of its ProActive Vessel Register in an attempt to increase membership. So far less than...
Following a long running dispute between Mexico and the US, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled the US government to change its legislation surrounding the dolphin safe practices of its tuna fisheries which has followed this week with the...
The Eastern Pacific Ocean has been hit hard by extreme weather conditions, meaning low temperatures and very strong currents, affecting the tuna catch of both small, artisanal tuna fisheries and larger industrial tuna vessels.
The National Oceanic...
The Bank of Maldives is calling on potential investors for an expression of interest (EOI) to acquire a tuna processing plant in the Republic of Maldives and invites eligible investors, local or foreign to submit an EOI.The raw and frozen tuna loin...
With hopes to grow within the tuna market, Hayduk Corporation is focusing on re-powering its product lines for direct human consumption products including canned, frozen and cured fish and indirect human consumption and will invest USD 38 million...
Written by Edwin Espejo
A 53.67 percent hike in frozen tuna imports has increased the total volume of fish landings at the General Santos Fish Port Complex (GSFPC) for the first six months of this year.Data released by the GSFPC revealed that the...
As the Marshall Islands and other islands ramp up recruitment and training of fisheries observers, the number of reports by observers claiming verbal and physical abuse aboard fishing boats has escalated.“We have received observer reports and...
The introduction of a new protocol to the EU-Comoros Fisheries Partnership Agreement has recently been outlined and will go into action at the beginning of 2014, issuing a 6000 ton tuna fishing quota to the European Union.The protocol that has been...
Attempting to smuggle 3.5kg of cocaine hidden in cans of tuna, a Spanish citizen, Angel GB has been arrested in Lima Airport, where he was boarding a flight to MadridPeru’s anti-drug police seized the 52 year old alleged trafficker on...
Canned tuna has taken the top spot in Costa Rican households as the seafood with the highest consumption figure, averaging 2.5 kg per person per year.
According to the Spanish Calvo Group, a key player in Costa Rica’s tuna industry, people living in...
Former Chief Financial Officer of Oceanic Enterprises, Jaime Cuadra has pleaded guilty to fraudulently embezzling more than one million dollars from Oceanic and its parent company, Unami Sustainable Seafood, a global leader in producing and...
The MW Brands Board announced last week that Elisabeth Fleuriot will become the CEO of MW Brands (John West, Petit Navire, Mareblu). The current CEO, Adolfo Valsecchi, will retire on 31st July 2013, as was already announced on 21st June.Elisabeth...
The European Union has suspended the latest round of trade negotiations with Pacific ACP States (PACPS) on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).On Friday last week, July 5 in Brussels saw the conclusion of another round of trade negotiations...
MEPs on the European Parliament Fisheries Committee voted to provide €1.6 billion worth of subsidies to improve the capacity of EU fishing fleets and diversify local economies that have been hard hit by the decline of this sector. While the stated...
Eating a lot of oily fish or taking potent fish oil supplements may increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.Moreover, marine sources of omega-3 fatty acids may also raise the risk for aggressive prostate...
Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday it will fight the United States new “dolphin-safe†tuna labeling rules at the World Trade Organization, arguing they are unfair to Mexican fishermen.
“Mexico will take its case to the WTO, arguing that...
A new study has revealed alarming figures showing the huge amount of silky sharks that could be dying each year due to the use of FADs during tuna fishing in the Indian Ocean. The enormous figure of 480,000-960,000 silky sharks dying annually in the...
The MW Brands Board announced last week that Elisabeth Fleuriot will become the CEO of MW Brands (John West, Petit Navire, Mareblu). The current CEO, Adolfo Valsecchi, will retire on 31st July 2013, as was already announced on 21st June.Elisabeth...
Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued regulations it claims will protect dolphins and provide consumers with greater assurance that no dolphins were harmed or killed during the harvest of tuna.According to the...
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) are battling in defense of the US Big Three tuna brands in the Hendricks v StarKist case that could cost the American tuna industry tens of millions of dollars for counts including fraud. Patrick Hendricks, a...
Despite announcing its production of a promotional video this week about the sustainability of tuna, Interatun’s ‘Atun a la vista’ footage is failing to show any apparent online presence.Extensive internet searching by atuna.com has uncovered no...
The Seychelles has become the first African nation to formally sign an international treaty meaning that illegally caught tuna and other ocean fish cannot enter its market.The agreement that is planned to come into force in 2014 will rule that...
A surge of violent attacks on fishing vessels in the Gulf of Guinea have marked it the new piracy hot-spot, after piracy in Somali fell to a low in the first half of this year.
A substantial 31 attacks have been reported along with the informed...
A 52 year-old man is to be charged with boating under the influence of alcohol after his boat sank with nearly a ton of tuna onboard, alerting U.S. Coast Guards to the incident about 25 miles west of Ilwaco, Washington.The Ilwaco man, Craig Lewis...
The Tri-Marine’s Solomon Island fishing company, National Fisheries Developments (NFD) has announced the appointment of its new General Manager, Frank Wickham.Frank is said to bring to the role experience in administration, government, multinational...
Mexico have set a catch quota for Northern Pacific bluefin tuna amounting to a volume of 3,295 tons to be fished in federal waters of the Pacific Ocean and in marine waters under regulation of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC).
The...
StarKist tuna has celebrated its anniversary and marked its 50th year in American Samoa with the launch of a newly branded “Made in America†canned Chunk Light Tuna in Water and the same product in oil, prepared and packed in the U.S. territory. One...
With tuna prices on the rise, a new television commercial from the Peruvian food production company, San Fernando, uses humor to drive its marketing campaign, promoting its new chicken product as an alternative to canned tuna.Marking its position in...
In its recent Global Impacts Report, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced that it had acknowledged as many as almost 400 improvements to fisheries that carry the MSC certification.This unique research was carried out by a new team within...
Skipjack prices since 2006 have frequently been soaring far higher than the FAO Global Fish Price Index, reaching huge peaks in both 2008 and 2011 recorded at as much as nearly double the total fish cost. While movement has been common for the...
The European Union recently made the decision to grant trade benefits to South East Asian country Myanmar, allowing zero percent duty trade on numerous exports to the EU including the trade of fish under the General Scheme of Preferences (GSP).Tuna...
On June 17, 2013, Umami Sustainable Seafood, Inc. (“Umamiâ€); Kali Tuna d.o.o. (“Kaliâ€), a subsidiary of Umami; and MB LUBIN d.o.o. (“Lubinâ€) entered into a new credit agreement (the “New Credit Facilityâ€), dated as of that date, with...
Taiwanese tuna long liners operating in the Indian Ocean are hiring Sri Lankan mercenaries to defend them against attacks from Somalian pirates, our sister publication China Times Weekly reports.The magazine said Taiwanese captains are paying...
All key players within the tuna trade have been fully aware of the problems with the current pressed cake method of tuna, this can be concluded from the comments submitted to the petition filed by the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) surrounding...
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF), the leading global seafood expert did poorly in the first quarter of 2013 with a net profit of USD 674m before tax, say analysts from SCB securities of Thailand. Profit was up 10 percent quarter on quarter, but...
Bangkok skipjack tuna prices currently stand at USD 1,930 per ton, compared to last week’s higher recorded price of USD 1,950. Prices for skipjack tuna have dropped in recent months from a high peak of USD 2,350 in the first half of the year, with...
With 55 vessels landing about 32,000 tons of tuna catches last year at Grupo Calvo’s El Salvador processing plant, the company this year hopes to raise its raw material receipts to 40,000 tons, despite the low domestic tuna consumption. As the...
A new spiny-rayed fish family tree shows tuna and seahorses are closely related through a common ancestorSpiny-rayed fish rule the underwater world.In the past 100 million years, fish with spiky dorsal and anal fins — an effective anti-predator...
Shell Malaysia will contribute RM 450,000 (USD 141,500) for the Fish Aggregation Device (FAD) project, giving a major boost to fisherman in Sabah.
In announcing this, Shell Chairman Iain Lo said the company initiated the FAD project to promote and...
Research into using
vegetable products as feed in the aquaculture industry is underway, but the
local tuna industry will not feed farmed fish the diet at this stage.
The Australian vegetable
industry is looking at research that would use vegetables...
After consistently fiercely denying Finnish group, Finnwatch’s accusations of the existence of child labor in its tuna processing plants, Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) has launched its first child care center at Wat Sri Sutaram School, also for...
Hawaiian
fisherman, Anthony Wichman got a large catch of a 105kg yellowfin tuna, but
when it was finally hauled on board, his small boat capsized under the weight.
The 54 year old man was
thrown into the sea where his leg got caught in the fishing...
Spanish tuna fishing companies could feel the rippling financial effects of Brussels ordering the Spanish shipyard industry to pay back up to USD 2.8 billion to the Spanish government, deeming state subsidiaries in the form of tax breaks illegal....
Under the new Strategic Plan for the Development of Tuna
Fisheries, the Mozambican Government will demand tuna vessels operating in
domestic waters to unload all their catch in local ports.The National Executive also considers by-catch landing at...
Princes is offering shoppers a two-for-one deal on days out in a major new on-pack promotion to drive sales of their canned tuna.As part of the Perfect Day promotion, 2.5 million canned tuna four-packs will receive a unique on-pack code, entitling...
Low water temperatures could have delayed the spawning stage of bluefin in the waters of the Balearic Sea this year, according to Spanish scientists. A study that will run until 2014 is conducted by researchers and technicians from oceanographic...
Peru’s Ministry of Production has made a decision to issue a two-month ban on tuna fishing to Peruvian flagged purse seine vessels with a carrying capacity of more than 182 tons in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).This ban comes under regulation of...
While the hull of the new tuna purse seiner for Mexican tuna fishing company Grupomar enters the water, extensive work on equipping the vessel is about to start by Spanish shipyard Armon. Recent reports that Brussels has ordered repayment of...
More than a huge total of one million tons of the Western Central Pacific’s major commercial tuna catch appears to have escaped FAO statistics over the past three years, when comparing it to the same data provided by the WCPFC. Skipjack, bigeye,...
The Pacific Island nations are working towards a new trade and development agreement with the United States. At a meeting in Samoa last week, Pacific trade ministers told the forum secretariat to make discussions with the US a priority for Pacific...
When it comes to fish, apparently it isn’t only the
fishermen who exaggerate.
State Rep. Ted Speliotis, D-Danvers, is co-sponsoring
legislation that would require restaurants to clearly label what they’re
selling. At the same time, it would put...
Spanish tuna purse seiner Txori Argi will no longer face being added to the IUU vessel list after the case of its illegal fishing accusations has been settled. ANABAC (Spain’s national association of tuna freezer vessels ship-owners) who represented...
The Spanish tuna fishing fleet have virtually been denied access to Moroccan waters after licenses offered to its tuna vessels carry implications they say are impossible to meet.A new 4-year fisheries agreement was signed by the Moroccan Government...
The sixth of seven tuna fisheries along the coast of Cadiz, Spain has been marked with the addition of a remarkable seven-meter long bronze sculpture of a bluefin tuna that is an artistic symbol of the exploitation of this fish that has...
While the global farmed fish market continues to rise, the farmed tuna volume falls considerably behind. With the market relying almost entirely on the capture of wild tuna to fatten in captivity, bluefin stocks plummet to highly depleted levels...
Somali Pirates, notorious for violent hijacking crimes in the Indian Ocean are now taking to providing armed protection for ships illegally fishing tuna in Somali waters, after increased security on vessels from international naval patrols resulted...
A 23 year old tuna cannery worker from Manabi, Ecuador died this week from the H1N1 flu virus, the first of this type of fatality in the province, home to the world’s largest tuna port. The Health Minister, Carina Vance, reported that the case was...
A bigeye tuna that was caught and tagged an astonishing 13 years ago as part of
a scientific experiment has been re-captured at the grand age of at least 15 years
old and a weight of 100 kg.
Caught 1000 km east of Fiji, the tag was found by crew...
After a dramatic decline in canned tuna imports last year, the first four months of 2013 have proved more promising for the U.S. tuna market as well as the countries that rely heavily on their exports to the world’s largest tuna importing nation. In...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed two new rules that will add further regulation to the governing of imported food, including tuna and other seafood into the country. As the top importing nation of tuna products, the U.S....
The first stage of negotiations involving a Sustainable Fishing
Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the Cook Islands and the European Union
has been held on the Island of Raratonga. The EU hopes to obtain tuna fishing
rights for 4 tuna purse...
Japanese
boats catching southern bluefin tuna species
in New Zealand waters will be excluded from of
a bill brought about to end human rights abuses aboard boats fishing in the
area.
The
government backed down on the original bill that would...
The annual tuna fishing ban ordered by the IATTC will take 51 of the 106 vessel strong Ecuadorian tuna fleet out of operation for 60 days, with another 45 expected to stop during a second ban starting in November. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna...
A tagging program for southern bluefin tuna is looking at
the survival rate of the fish after they’re caught and then released by recreational
fishers.
Dr. Sean Tracey, from the University of Tasmania’s Institute
for Marine and Antarctic Studies,...
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng The Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia (LKIM) must explain the losses incurred in Malaysian International Tuna Port Sdn Bhd (MITP) project in Batu Maung, said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.MITP, a...
Following reports yesterday that Japanese tuna fishers would be excluded from a new Fisheries Amendment Bill which addresses human rights on fishing vessels, Maritime Union announced its view that the exemption should be thrown out. The Maritime...
