Curto email from 2012 suggests Bumble Bee, Starkist were ‘talking constantly’
Tri Marine's Renato Curto has known ex-Bumble Bee Foods CEO Chris Lischewski, who he called 'one of the most important persons in the industry', since the early 1990s
Ex-Starkist exec describes close collaboration on prices with Bumble Bee
Starkist's Stephen Hodge testified that his fellow executive Joseph Tuza told him one of his duties would be to stay engaged with his competitors on pricing
Former executive claims Bumble Bee’s Lischewski directed price-fixing
'He directed us to do it', Walter Cameron said of his former boss at Bumble Bee Foods, Chris Lischewski, who is on trial for his alleged participation in a price-fixing consipiracy
DOJ culls six names from Lischewski trial witness list
The US Department of Justice has cut six people from its proposed list of witnesses at the upcoming price-fixing trial of former Bumble Bee Foods CEO Christopher Lischewski
Judge won’t allow prosecutors to use ‘FAD-free’ evidence at Lischewski trial
San Francisco, California-based judge Edward Chen granted Chris Lischewski's motion to exclude the evidence from being introduced at the November trial
StarKist underfilling victims to receive $2.38, not $25 as settlement runs thin
Some 2.5 million people signed up to participate in the settlement meaning recipients are now eligible for $2.38 in cash or $5.03 in tuna coupons
Pro-seafood scientists push to knock mercury warnings out of US Dietary Guidelines
The group looks to have a lengthy paper citing positive studies on seafood published in a journal before submitting it to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Pressure mounts on Bumble Bee as Clover Leaf sale to Bolton off, bankruptcy mulled
The sale of Bumble Bee’s Canadian operations to Bolton is off the table, for now, due to the uncertainty around the future of the beleaguered US tuna canner, sources say
New longline tuna improvement project gets underway in Indonesia
The prospective FIP includes albacore, yellowfin and bigeye longline fisheries in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific
Tri Marine: US tuna sales will grow $500m by 2028, despite further drop from cans
Tri Marine predicts US market will be worth $2.5 billion by 2028, compared to $2bn in 2018, $1.6bn in 2008 and $1.3bn, but canned sales to carry on dropping