The tuna fishing vessel belonging to Asia’s biggest canned tuna exporter, Thai Union Frozen Products, was seized on October 29, 2009 with 23 Russians, two Filipinos and two Ghanaians on board.
“We have released the ship after we received $3 million in ransom,” a pirate named Hassan told Reuters. “The ship is named Thai Union, its crew have safely moved from the Somali coast.” Read the rest of this entry »
It appears that the dawn of the new decade has ushered in an era of readjustment and consolidation in the global tuna industry with special focus on resource sustainability. A move by some European nations to put northern bluefin tuna under CITES List I, if successful, would result in a total trade ban of the species resulting in the collapse of the multi-billion dollar sashimi tuna trade. Even otherwise, many other developments are bound to affect the trade in high-valued tunas. ICCAT’s and CSSBT’s decision to reduce quotas for northern bluefin and southern bluefin tunas respectively and the proposed moratorium on bigeye tuna fishing in the western and central Pacific ocean will undoubtedly reduce sashimi tuna supplies and much affect the market. Read the rest of this entry »
As a result of quota cutbacks in 2009, the John West Tuna cannery, known as Port Lincoln Tuna Processors, is planning to do away with its production, in May. The cannery is looking forward to get shifted to Thailand.
At present, the Australian cannery employs 260 people. The shifting would lead to loss in the jobs. However, the exact figures have not been released yet. Read the rest of this entry »
Edmund Gann, who owned a fleet of tuna-fishing boats and campaigned top Thoroughbreds throughout the world, died after a bout with cancer on Sunday, according to a spokesperson at his San Diego-area office.
Gann, who resided in Rancho Santa Fe near Del Mar racetrack, was 86. Read the rest of this entry »
A NEWLY proposed Asian tuna company will soon begin its operations in the country.
Frabelle Fishing Corp from the Philippines promised to provide thousands of job opportunities.
The Company’s Liaison Officer Dale Sacay in an interview with Solomon Star yesterday said all the plannings and logistics have already being planned out. Read the rest of this entry »
MANTA, ECUADOR .- The Director of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, IATTC, Guillermo Compean Jimenez, started Wednesday meeting with the Undersecretary of Fisheries Resources MAGAP, in order to prepare for the launch of several projects of technical and scientific cooperation, including the marking of big eye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the eastern Pacific, EPO. Read the rest of this entry »
