Taiwan kicked off its largest-ever reduction of tuna fleet by dismantling two 100-tonnage longline tuna fishing vessels at southern fishing harbor of Chien Chen in Kaohsiung, with 73 such longliners to be scrapped by the end of this year and another...
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Child-friendly MyPyramid Food Guidance System Could Help Tuna
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reminds families that eating a...
In the period of January-August the group “preparations and conserves of Tuna†registered exports of USD 4.265,548, that is 8% more than in similar period of the last year when the amount reached USD 3 million 953 thousand 220.
In the same way,...
Public Health Groups Say Signs Will Protect Consumers from Mercury in Seafood
San Francisco will consider a mercury in seafood warning sign ordinance today. The multilingual ordinance will improve public health by educating seafood consumers about...
Spain will be Mexico’s liaison between this country and the European Union (EU), assisting to express Mexico’s continued tension and requirements on fishing matters, the Fishery Secretary General, Mr. Juan Carlos Martin Fragueiro, of the Spanish...
The Kiribati government has approved licenses for 34 purse seiners from the Taiwan Deep Sea Tuna Boat Exporters Association to fish in Kiribati’s waters. As part of the deal, the 34 Taiwanese boats will each employ two I-Kiribati fishermen, offering...
Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) reported that it received a previously deferred after-tax gain of $7.0 million on the sale of Southern bluefin tuna quota rights in Australia....
Federal authorities investigating the appearance of $4 million in the bank account of a disgraced Philadelphia-area lawyer believe the money was stolen from a Venezuelan tuna-fishing company.
In new court filings, U.S. authorities allege that the...
Jake Heron was preparing to catch the last wave of the day, in Port Lincoln, when the ocean’s most feared predator struck without warning.
Erupting from the water beside him, the great white shark bit deep into his right arm and leg and knocked...
San Francisco, a city renowned for its seafood, could soon require trilingual signs in restaurants and markets to warn consumers about the dangers of mercury in fish.
A Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposed ordinance Monday that...
Ten Japanese investors including a multi-millionaire have chosen locally based tuna company Tosa Bussan (Fiji) Limited as their latest investment area and also seek possible business opportunities in Fiji.
The ten are top business executives from...
Conservationists concerned about the future of southern bluefin tuna stocks spent last week in court attempting to overturn a Federal Government decision to grant export licenses to the fishery.Port Lincoln companies catch just over 5000 tons of the...
The Spanish Group Calvo announced the temporary shutdown of its factory in El Salvador last month, after the 40 day tuna ban finalized on September 11th.This decision is due to the shortage on tuna supply. However, Calvo is determined to maintain...
In the United States, a Salem man is facing a charge of boating while intoxicated after he and two other people were ejected from their tuna-fishing boat Saturday night.Marine Patrol officers say the boaters became disoriented after refueling near...
High operating costs in tuna fisheries are putting Seychelles at a disadvantage against its East African neighbors and distant exporters in Asia, a report by stakeholders says.The ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam offer more services at a lower...
Fish products exporters need not worry over fall in seafood exports to the United States, which had slapped anti-dumping duty on Indian seafood exports, as they had other markets which offered them ample lucrative business, according to the Marine...
Joined by America’s Whale Alliance’s 35-foot Whale Bus, members of In Defense of Animals, the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute and One Voice - France held a protest in front of the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco....
Global catch has grown by 20 times in last 50 years.
Some 80,000 tuna in the Indian Ocean are being tagged as part of a European Union-funded project to preempt the depletion of stocks from overfishing.Under the Seychelles-based project, which began...
One of the Australia’s most successful aquaculture businesses, the Stehr Group, is believed to be raising $18 million to list on the stock exchange. The tuna-farming and aquaculture firm is understood to have consulted Adelaide stock brokers,...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Fisheries said that more fishermen in central coastal provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh anh Khanh Hoa were sailing out to sea for tuna fishing trips as this time of the year is said to be the most successful for tuna...
The critically endangered southern bluefin tuna is being hit by escalating foreign over-fishing, the Federal Government and the fishing industry have warned.Thousands of tons more than the permitted global catch of bluefin could be finding its way...
A bigeye tuna (Thunnus Obesus) with a yellow plastic tag embedded in its back was recaptured in September by an Australian longline vessel fishing in the Coral Sea, off the north-east coast of Australia. The tuna had been tagged and released nearly...
Traditional fishermen, who are already facing a plethora of problems, including last year’s tsunami devastation, are likely to face more trouble from a WTO pact which is expected to be inked at Hong Kong in December this year.The Non Agricultural...
Concern over the stock levels of Southern Bluefin Tuna continues to escalate after a puzzling decision by the Federal Environment Minister, Ian Campbell.Mr. Campell had received advice that the Tuna’s stocks have fallen to just 3% of their 1960...
Not a single tuna processor or marine exporter in General Santos City in the Philippines passed the stringent standards required by the European Union (EU) based on an inspection made in July by a team from the EU, announced Emmanuel Koh,...
Eating fish, like tuna, once a week slows the memory loss associated with aging by 10 percent a year, according to a Rush University Medical Center study of 6,158 elderly Chicagoans.For people who eat more than one fish meal a week, the slowdown in...
U.S. Congressman Faleomavaega has met with the CEOs of StarKist and Chicken of the Sea and also the Executive Director of the U.S. Tuna Foundation regarding the extension of 936 tax credits. Mr. Jeff Watters, the newly appointed President of...
The Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is allocating P3.5 million (US$62,792) for the construction of a laboratory for the quality testing of tuna.BFAR Director Malcolm Sarmiento said the fund for the laboratory, which will...
The Seventh International Frozen Seafood Expo Seafood and Aquaculture Products Wholesalers, Importers, Processors, and Exporters (CONXEMAR), which took place last week in the city of Vigo, northwest Spain, has once again been consolidated as one of...
The following is a synopsis of a Senate assessment on the impact in the Territory if the two US tuna canneries, StarKist and Chicken of the Sea would relocate outside of American Samoa.The report gives us not only a good idea about the consequences...
The Executive Director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), Andrew Wright, arrived in Pohnpei on Monday 10th October to commence work with the Tuna Commission.
Mr. Wright’s term with the Tuna Commission is for an initial...
In Australia this year’s bluefin tuna harvest is the biggest to date, with the last Port Lincoln company finishing its harvest Monday.Tuna Boat Owners Association chair Brian Jeffriess said while the final figures had not yet been calculated, it was...
The U.S. Senate assessment report calculates that the two Samoan tuna canneries will fully relocate elsewhere within four years if the IRS section 936 is not extended.However, COS Samoa Packing’s general manager Herman Gebauer told Samoan news...
Kenya and Tanzania are included in a five-year $16.8m survey to determine whether the tuna is becoming an endangered fish species.The research, funded by the European Union, involves tagging 80,000 tuna in the Indian Ocean and releasing them into...
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has launched its consumer awareness campaign ‘Fishwatch’, to celebrate Seafood Week (7-14 October). MCS surveyed all major UK supermarket chains with its own questionnaire during the Summer of 2005. They found...
Taiwan Monday kicked off its largest-ever reduction of tuna fleet by dismantling two 100-tonnage longline tuna fishing vessels at southern fishing harbor of Chien Chen in Kaohsiung, with 73 such longliners to be scrapped by the end of this year and...
Two recently released studies encourage people to eat seafood such as canned tuna for the substantial health benefits it provides people of all ages. At the same time, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is attempting to discourage canned tuna...
Although the Mexican tuna sector landed a total 52,587 tons of tuna during the first half of this year, almost 2,000 tons more than during the same period of 20004, the bluefin catches could register a drop this year, mainly because of less captures...
The Taiwanese government has just announced that it will dismantle 120 tuna longline vessels, about 5% of its fleet. Environmentalists are praising this reduction in the largest longline fleet in the Pacific as a boon for sea turtles which are...
The Indian Ocean waters off the Somalia Coastline are no longer safe. This week, two ships, MV Toroelow and MV Miltzow, have been hijacked, each with nine Kenyans. Last week, Somali warlords released other eight Kenyans after over three months in...
The Kien Giang Food Canning Joint Stock Company (Kifocan) has exported nearly 1,100 tons of canned seafood so far, earning US$1.6 million.
Kifocan’s main export markets include Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Cambodia, and Nigeria. It has introduced new...
The Philippine tuna industry's fresh-frozen sector is working closely with the National Government to convince the European Union (EU) to adopt a more liberal screening process that would allow the unrestricted entry of local fresh-frozen tuna...
Tuna exporters in the Philippines expect to get a bigger share of the growing global market of tuna products with the planned construction of a new quality testing laboratory for tuna at the fish port complex.Marfenio Tan, president of the...
The American Samoan police is investigating claims made by several Chinese fishermen that they allegedly have not received their pay for a long time and they were beaten and not given any food by the captain of their fishing vessel. They say this is...
Palau’s President Tommy Remengesau has asked lawmakers to ratify the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.The aim of the agreement, according to President Remengesau,...
The Philippines’ milkfish industry is expected to generate higher revenues in the succeeding years following the development of foreign markets for “post fingerling bangus (milkfish)†which is now used by tuna long line fishermen as bait.Local...
According to a press release by the USFDA, Home Made Brand Foods Inc., 2 Opportunity Way, Newburyport, MA 01950 is recalling Classic Tuna Salad, expiration date 10/16/05, due to Listeria contamination.Listeria is a common organism found in nature....
A new study by researchers at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis finds that the benefits of eating seafood far outweigh any risk from naturally occurring mercury, and that reducing seafood consumption due to unfounded concerns would be an...
The U.S. Tuna Foundation (USTF) today applauded the findings of a major new study by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis which confirms that the health benefits of consuming seafood far outweigh any risk due to trace amounts of mercury in fish....
When commercial fisherman Roger Kamb caught a bumper crop of albacore tuna off the Pacific Northwest coastline in 1990, he decided to try his hand at canning the sushi-grade fish.His canned tuna was an instant hit among family and friends, and he...
Port Lincoln aquaculture enterprise, Clean Seas Aquaculture Pty Ltd has appointed former federal minister Ian McLachlan to its board of directors.Mr. McLachlan has held several roles in primary industry including National Farmers’ Federation...
Fiji is set to establish one of the largest networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the world.Fiji’s MPA Network is expected to cover 30-percent of Fiji’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) which is 380,000sq kilometers of its water.Traditional fish...
Opening statements were presented in a landmark case that could shape the face of healthy eating in California. The lead attorney representing three canned tuna companies forcefully laid out their case to San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert...
The lead witness for Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s Proposition 65 case against canned tuna proposed a threshold for mercury in seafood that is so low, every seafood product in the country would require a warning, the U.S. Tuna Foundation said last...
The federal government’s 2004 warning about the dangers of mercury in seafood took a big bite out of the tuna industry. Sales dropped by 10 percent after the advisory, according to the U.S. Tuna Foundation, and haven’t recovered since.The warning,...
Safeway and Albertsons have joined Wild Oats Natural Food stores in providing information about mercury in fish at seafood counters nationwide, according to recent press reports. Environmental groups are applauding these efforts, but are asking why...
Women who eat fish during pregnancy may help increase their infants' cognitive abilities, says a Harvard Medical School study.The finding, published in the October issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that recent guidelines from...
The inaugural meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC - also known as the Tuna Commission) was held in mid-August 2005.Hosted by the Government of New Caledonia and the Secretariat of the...
A local scientist has formed an unusual political action group: it’s bipartisan and focused exclusively on the oceans and marine life.This group, which may be the first of its kind, is working to cultivate influence in Washington by supporting...
An audit of Fiji’s 2005 Tuna Plan has found the country’s Fisheries Ministry exceeded the number of fishing licenses it was entitled to issue.The recommended number of licenses for the sustainability of the tuna industry is 60, instead 72 licenses...
South Australian tuna magnate Dinko Lukin has appeared in the Port Lincoln Magistrates Court, where he is being tried for allegedly spilling 2,000 liters of oil into Boston Bay.Lukin and his company Dinko Tuna are charged with the spill under the...
Between December 2004 and June 2005, 16 outbreaks and incidents of scombrotoxic fish poisoning (SFP) - histamine- were reported to the British Health Protection Agency (HPA) from several regions within England and Wales.Thirty-eight people were ill,...
Turns out it is OK to play with your food: the 'Canstruction' exhibit to be opened at Exploris.
Scott Shell, left, and Christopher Bitsas of Duda/Paine Architects work on their bridge. Eventually there will be a train on the top of the...
The Mexican tuna fleet has caught around 115,000 tons of tuna until September 2005, which represents 27,000 tons more than during the same period last year.Data provided by the National Program for Tuna Exploitation and Dolphin Protection indicate...
Authorities arrested 52 Indian fishermen which were targeting tuna for allegedly straying into Pakistani waters in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Karachi, maritime officials said.The fishermen and their nine trawlers were seized earlier this week...
The Calvo tuna plant located in La Union, El Salvador, resumed its activities, Monday, October 17th, after suspending its operations for a month. This postponement was due to the lack of tuna caused by the tuna ban in the coasts of the Pacific.The...
The fish hits the bucket like a block of wood, its stiff-as-a-board body making a hollow thud as it is heaped onto a 600-pound pile of albacore tuna. A crane hoists the load from the boat and unleashes a deluge of long fins into boxes on an Astoria...
Port Lincoln Tuna Processors is set to benefit from a temporary tariff rise on imported tuna.Tariffs on processed tuna imported from Thailand will temporarily rise to five per cent for the rest of this year.Under the Thailand-Australia Free Trade...
The Philippine tuna industry’s fresh frozen sector is working closely with the national government to convince the European Union (EU) to adopt a more liberal screening process that will allow the unrestricted entry of local fresh-frozen and smoked...
The Ecuadorian fishing sector is taking precautions to secure their entry into the European market. The tuna and seafood sector wants to ensure the permanence of Ecuadorian products in the European Union (EU). The EU is one of its main buyers where...
The transport strike which commenced earlier this week in the Galician Arousa-area of Spain is causing an alarming situation for several tuna canning factories, which have suspended their activities.In this important fishing and canning area of...
Thai Union Frozen Products PCL (TUF), Asia’s top canned tuna exporter, said on Wednesday it planned to sell up to 8.5 billion baht ($208 million) of bonds by early next year to refinance debt.TUF, whose U.S. subsidiaries own the Chicken of the Sea...
One of the world's leading marine biologists has warned that we should stop eating tuna, shark, and swordfish in particular, not just for the sake of the ocean's health but our own as well.Speaking at an international conference in...
The Korea Deep-sea Fisheries Association, securing a long-term tuna-hauling right in the Pacific, has agreed on Korea’s tuna fishing terms with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) for five years at the same conditions as the one-year pact that...
Shoppers are being sold endangered and threatened varieties of fish by nearly all major supermarkets, according to a report published earlier this week.Asda has the worst seafood policies of the nine food chains included in a study by campaign group...
In a landmark case that could impact the healthy diets of all Californians, attorneys representing StarKist, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee brands of canned tuna today exposed a startling flaw in California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s...
Demand for frozen smoked tuna products in the international markets, particularly in the European Union, has plummeted, Philippine tuna industry leaders revealed.According to Marfenio Tan, president of the Philippine - Socsksargen Federation of...
The Argentinean police of Buenos Aires called last June the local TV & radio stations and newspapers to provide the shocking news that had brought down a narcotics gang, confirming that 20 drug dealers had been arrested and that a laboratory...
The European Commission has unveiled a €70 million per year strategy to protect Europe’s marine environment.
The ‘thematic strategy on the protection and the conservation of the marine environment’ aims to ensure that all EU marine waters are...
Numerous popular and once prolific U.S. fish species have been reduced to 1% to 10% of their original populations, according to Oceana, an international ocean protection organization.With the global market for fish growing and improved technology to...
Fiji’s total exports to the United States declined by nearly 20 per cent in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2004.Figures released by the US Department of Commerce recently, show total exports from Fiji to the US...
Scientists now have direct evidence that the north Pacific salmon shark maintains its red muscle (RM) at 68-86 degrees Fahrenheit, much warmer than the 47 F water in which it lives. The elevated muscle temperature presumably helps the salmon shark...
A Chinese fishing boat has been seized in Maputo port, after it was found to be carrying an illegal catch of about four tons of shark and tuna, reported local news sources.
The catch was uncovered when the ship, the “Da Yuan Yu 309â€, which was...
The Canadian Maritime Fishermen’s Union is calling on federal fisheries minister Geoff Reagan to rectify serious concerns they have with unharvested bluefin tuna quota in St. Margaret's Bay, N.S. and fear is the problem isn’t rectified, it will...
