The port manager of Davao Fishport Complex, Philippines, has belied “resurrected†reports that there was a tuna dumping here by foreign-vessels that allegedly resulted to cheap prices of tuna in the market. Carlos Hagosojos issued this clarification...
A 3 million Aus$ tuna fishing boat at the center of ATSIC's ambitious foreign trade agenda has been impounded in the West Australian port of Geraldton after defaulting on a taxpayer-funded loan. The boat is a 30-metre catamaran.
The new federal...
The Fijian Labor minister, Kenneth Zinck has been jeered and booed by striking workers of the state-owned tuna cannery at Levuka, Fiji. The minister was visiting the strikers, mainly indigenous Fijian women from around Levuka.
More than 350 workers...
Spain’s next tuna superseiner is to supply the low-temperature market in Japan with fish frozen aboard at –55 degrees C. in addition to producing normal well-frozen fish for canneries.
Owner Albacora is fitting a low-temperature freezing tunnel on...
The Spanish manufacturer of tuna packing machines Hermasa is well on its way to rapidly expand in the global tuna market with its high tech equipment, which is marketed under the "Tunipack" brand name.
Hermasa calls the Tunipack product line "a...
According to the President of the Spanish Tuna Boat Owners Organization (ANABAC), Benito Portuondo, there should be a limit to the import of raw tuna from non-EU tuna fishing vessels.
ANABAC currently owns 21 tuna purse seiner vessels that fish in...
The Thai-Malaysian Tropical seafood company has built a completely newly structured and innovative factory in the city of Hatyai, close to port of Songkla in Thailand. The new Thai seafood factory is part of the Tropical Group of...
Representatives from nearby island states, as well as mainland nations bordering the western Indian Ocean, are discussing how the information collected from VMS (Vessel Monitoring System), which uses satellite technology to constantly report the...
The Ministry of Employment and Manpower Development of Ghana is to set up an independent medical board to investigate the ill health of workers of the Pioneer Food Cannery (PFC), manufacturers of StarKist Tuna.
In view of this, the Ministry will...
Tuna, and how it should be fished in the Eastern Pacific, has become the subject of a battle for the mind of lawmakers and consumers in the United States and Europe.
On one side, fishermen, scientists and some greens support what they see as...
Thai Union Frozen Products Plc (TUF), the world’s second largest canned tuna producer said that rise in cost of raw material and a stronger baht are likely to hurt its revenue growth for the second half. “Traditionally the second half of the year...
Bad weather also means poor fishing. Nearly a week of strong winds, heavy seas and intermittent rain has had a strong impact on tuna fishing, with prices at all time high in Male’s Fish Market.
On Saturday, an average size tuna was priced between...
The U.S. canned seafood giant, Bumble Bee Seafoods rescued its Fijian partner Pacific Fishing Company (PAFCO) Friday from a potentially disastrous industrial dispute with its 300 workers who had been on strike over a month.
â€Without the additional...
Concern about jobs and businesses in Papua New Guinea occupied by foreigners, of which a few hundred are said to be working in the tuna canning industry, -exasperated by some 10,000 illegal immigrants- may result in a major Government crackdown....
A tuna has been caught in Cornish waters, boosting hopes of being able to restart a local fishery. Neil Harman, a Polperro-based fisherman, was out trying to catch bass in his vessel "MCB" when he made the rare catch.
"It was unmistakable," he said....
EU commissioner for agriculture and fisheries Franz Fischler said Monday he was “really optimistic†that it should be possible for Malta’s agriculture and fisheries sectors to manage EU membership successfully.
Addressing a joint press conference...
The second largest employer in American Samoa, Chicken of the Sea - Samoa Packing General, says that sales of canned tuna in the United States are slow.
The company has over two thousand employees and for the last three to four months been packing...
Bluefin tuna fishermen on Cape Cod Bay, in Massachusetts, USA are angry that while they have endured a disappointing season, a much larger fishing boat netted 62 of the prize fish, violating what they say was a gentleman's agreement.
Last week,...
According to the Salvadorian National Center for the Fishery and Agriculture Development (Cendepesca), there are insufficient resources to fight against illegal and non-regulated fishery.
Every year, artisanal fishermen and industrial fishing...
Tuna fishermen in Australia have complained that the activities of dive operators who bait sharks for caged tourist divers are making their work unsafe. Accusations from commercial divers at fish farms that dive operators are 'teasing' the...
A meeting in New Zealand has reintroduced an international catch quota for the southern bluefish tuna in a bid to help the declining species. The total allowable catch for the tuna was abolished in 1997 and replaced by national voluntary catch...
In celebration of the U.S canned tuna industry’s 100th anniversary Bumble Bee has expanded its distribution of Prime Fillet Solid White Albacore, according to the company: “the new gold standard in canned tunaâ€, to supermarkets across the country....
Japanese Fisheries Ministry councillor Akira Nakamae, revealed the plans while attending a Southern Bluefin Tuna conference in Christchurch this week. The move could spell the end of the IWC, which was set up to manage and conserve whale stocks....
In what has been hailed as the most significant development for the Southern Bluefin Tuna industry in 10 years, all nations involved in fishing the species have agreed on a total allowable worldwide catch.
The decision sees New Zealand, Japan,...
The Greenpeace environmental group has strongly criticized a new agreement on Southern Bluefin Tuna, warning the deal could lead to the collapse of the fishery.
The decision sees New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, and Australia limited to...
Ecuador’s Undersecretary of Fishing Resources Lucia Fernandez, holds the Minister of Agriculture, Rodrigo Lasso, responsible for Argentina’s decision to not buy Ecuadorian tuna.
The consequence of the suspension of meat imports has affected the...
According to the Secretary General of the National Association of Canned Fish and Shellfish Producers (ANFACO), Juan Vieites, the Spanish tuna industry and especially the Spanish canning companies have done a great investment effort in the last few...
There has been an extraordinary meeting in La Jolla California, between the IATTC and a delegation of Ecuadorian tuna industrialists, to see if Ecuador’s proposal to postpone the planned ban on tuna fishing to July 2004 can be implemented.
The...
After six years without consensus, the international commission for conservation of southern bluefin tuna has agreed to allow 14,030 tons of the high-value tuna to be caught worldwide, with the largest share of 6,065 tons, allocated to Japan,...
Scientists from around the world have begun a census of the seas that is expected to last 10 years. With so little understood about Big Blue, even the experts aren't sure what they are looking for or what they will find, writes Joseph B....
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily has reinstated fisheries regulations that ban longline fishing for swordfish while protecting tuna longliners from prosecution if they accidentally hook sea turtles.
Wednesday's ruling in the U.S....
Spain’s thrust to maintain its international fishing effort has seen the setting up of deals for 264 ships around the world.
Joint ventures have been established in: Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Dutch Antilles, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile,...
The president of the Federation of Guipuzcoa Associations in Spain, Esteban Olaizola, requested the Spanish Government to allocate tuna fishing permits to the Basque fleet, in order to fish tuna in Spanish province of Andalusia, Mediterranean and...
Fifty-three workers at an ink manufacturing plant near Ho Chi Minh City have been treated for headaches, vomiting and skin allergies after eating tuna at the factory canteen. After analysing the spoiled raw tuna, the fish showed a very high level of...
The decision to buy Heinz' tuna business is paying off for Del Monte Foods Co., which said Monday a new line of tuna products it rolled out over the summer has yielded a big sales catch.
Del Monte, which is based in San Francisco, introduced...
The City Prosecution Office of General Santos City in the Philippines has indicted a Japanese national based in the city, for failing to pay a television personality of his $2,200 debt despite written and oral demands.
Chief City Prosecutor Raul...
Indonesia's potential fishery resources are estimated at six million tons worth some US$6 billion a year, well above its annual fish exports valued at US$4 million, an Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) researcher said.
"The government and...
In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, executives from the San Francisco food company Del Monte / StarKist said it has sold more than $15 million of Tuna Creations pouches in five months, exceeding its sales forecasts by 37%. The statistics are...
Recent reports in the PNG press on the number of expatriate tuna workers employed by RD Tuna Canners in Madang, PNG seem to be incorrect.
News sources in Papua New Guinea were based on the allegations of local Parliament member, who failed to verify...
For Democrito J. Jazmin Jr., president of Pescador Sea Trading and head of the local cooperative of hand-line fishers of tuna in this city of half a million, business has never been the same since the state-of-the-art Tambler fishport started up in...
Stolt Sea Farm Holdings plc (SSF) reported a loss from operations in the third quarter of 2003 of $18.7 million compared with income from operations of $2.3 million in the third quarter of 2002 and a loss from operations of $8.1 million in the...
For an island nation with a long history of exploiting the natural resources of the sea, Britain is not particularly regarded as a nation of fish eaters. But despite current concerns about the mercury levels in some fish and seafood, consumption has...
Australian farmed tuna has passed one of the most intensive investigations of a food chain ever undertaken.
Two teams of up to 24 professional taste-testers in Japan have scrutinized 16 tuna fish from Port Lincoln in South Australia and declared it...
Perhaps the smallest mall business owner in Wheeling, 4-year-old Kaiden Laborec is using his entrepreneurial charms to sell tuna on the sidewalk to anyone who passes by. And who could resist with a business name like Tuna Town? Even one who despises...
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission fixed December 1st as the start date for the yellowfin tuna fishing ban. Normally this concerns all the vessels that fish in the Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean, however this year the IATTC reduced the site...
At the Apec Investment, Mart 2003, which ends today emerging Apec economies Brunei, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Russia, and Papua New Guinea, are trying to woo foreign investment.
Located just north of Australia, Papua New Guinea calls itself a “new...
Mozambique said it will sign an agreement with the European Union in January which will allow EU purse seiners to catch tuna and shrimp off the east African country's coast for the next three years.
"All the details of the accord have been...
Pop star Jessica Simpson said she won't be confusing tuna and chicken any time soon, especially after dropping in on a Chicken of the Sea company staff meeting. On a recent episode of her MTV reality show Newlyweds, Simpson didn't know if...
Representatives from all sectors of the Philippine tuna industry called on both the country’s houses of congress to fast track the passage of a bill that is expected to finally resolve vital concerns affecting the competitiveness of the country’s...
An eight member delegation of Del Monte Food officials, headed by the company's president, are scheduled to visit the StarKist tuna cannery in American Samoa and some canneries in Bangkok, Thailand.
The delegation, which will include StarKist...
They are superb athletes. Blue marlin can hit 60 mph in short bursts. They can leap from the ocean and fight experienced fishermen from dawn to sundown. Their immense cruising range -- they've been known to travel 1,200 miles in a few days --...
Tuna catchers in Mati, Davao Oriental in the Philippines have started to sell their catch at the Davao Fish Port Complex. Davao Fish Port manager Carlos Hagosojos and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources regional director George Campeon...
Both in the Fiji Islands as in PNG the tuna industry is experiencing the effect of campaigns of local anti-globalists against their operations. Two Fiji-based NGOs said last week that foreign tuna companies who are abusing the poor working...
A bluefin tuna that made its way to Pavilion Beach Sunday morning ended up on a few dinner tables this week.
Jim Rybicki reports that the tuna had been swimming in circles since about 7 a.m. in shallow water when a fisherman in a rowboat caught it...
In Fiji, the management of the PAFCO tuna cannery says it has reached a pay deal with striking workers.
The company claims it was able to meet the workers' demands, following an eleventh-hour rescue package by American food giant Bumble Bee....
The U.S. Senator Mr. Kerry has presented a proposal for the introduction of Fair Trade Act on Tuna Pouch to the U.S. Senate.
The bill, which is numbered S. 1739, comes as a reaction to the fact that the Andean countries Ecuador and Colombia were...
For all its efforts to strengthen ties with the region and the continent, South Africa imported a minuscule 3% of its needs from other African countries during the first six months of this year.
The balance of trade with Africa is weighted...
The deaths of Nine dead whales and about 50 dead harbor seals found along the United States Maine's coast have aimed a spotlight on a fleet of fishing boats plying the waters off the Maine coast in search of herring, the small silvery fish used...
Tuna fishermen of Andalusia, Spain, are worried about a new norm proposed by the current Italian presidency of the European Union.
According to the fishermen, it would mean the end of a major part of the fleet that now fishes mostly Bluefin tuna in...
Spain’s frozen fish consumption in 2002 has increased by 13% compared with the previous year; with a financial value of Eur 753.83 million, according to data facilitated by the president of FROM, Mr. Alberto Lopez, who emphasized that the annual...
Under new regulations, Sri Lanka has banned import of low quality dried and salted dried fish, such as tuna, Maldives exporters said.
Earlier, there were no such regulations, which resulted in low quality fish being imported into Sri Lanka. But now...
In Ecuador there has been an ongoing discussion about the exact location of the seat of the Chamber of Fishery (Camera of PesquerÃa) of Ecuador. For over 35 years this institution, which has Mr. Cesar Rohón as president, has held its office in...
People wanting to get into the aquaculture industry but have been scared off by high set up costs, lack of knowledge and limited space may soon have an alternative.The Stehr Group, owner of Arno Bay aquaculture company Clean Seas, is considering...
Hit by rising tuna prices but helped by the strong sales of U.S. subsidiary Chicken of the Sea, the third-quarter net profit of top Asian tuna exporter Thai Union Frozen Products PCL (TUF) could rise as much as 19 percent year on year but dip 22...
The American Samoan Congressman Faleomavaega recently announced that he is aggressively fighting to exclude canned tuna from the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Costa Rica is one of the main canners in this region. Recently Spanish...
Several local American long liner captains are upset and have expressed their disappointment to the Samoa News about the excessive number of them being out of a job due to the long liners opting to hire Filipino and New Zealanders fishermen for a...
Fiji is to press for a complete ban of purse seine vessels working in the western and central Pacific. About 200 vessels, mainly from Asia, are licensed to work in the region under Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) rules.
Konisi Yabaki, Fiji's...
A lesson learned from Jessica Simpson: Sometimes it pays to be dumb. Now not only Chicken-of-the-Sea, but also their competitors Bumble Bee and Starkist are bidding for Miss Simpson’s endorsement of their canned tuna products.
The bumbling blonde...
Tunisia and Libya start cooperating in tuna fishing.
The Tunisian Secretary of State for the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Amor El Abed, responsible for Fishery and Resources, is currently visiting Tripoli. He is heading a delegation of businessmen...
U.S. Fisheries officials heading to an international conference next month said Thursday they will push for increased sanctions on countries that violate fishing quotas or take undersized fish.
Concerned about bluefin tuna stocks, William Hogarth,...
