Tri Marine CEO to chair Tuna 2014
Renato Curto to chair event, which will take place in Bangkok in late May
EU bluefin project applies for October 2014 extension
Transdott, which hopes to close the life-cyle of bluefin tuna, applies for extension, on back of some encouraging results
Price of bluefin tuna falls at years’ first Tokyo auction
Sushi restaurateur pays £43,000 for 230kg fish, a fraction of the £900,000 record price he paid last year
Mitsubishi sets up new seafood JV in China
Japanese conglomerate teams up with Zhejiang Ocean Family for new Chinese seafood processing venture, to tap into China sushi, sashimi demand, using salmon, tuna and shrimp from Mitsubishi farms
Ricardo Fuentes to produce world’s first land-farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna
Spanish seafood supplier will invest €5m to produce and commercialize fully farmed-raised bluefin tuna for sale to the US and Europe in the next two years
Futuna Blue Spain approaches year-end missing sales target
Subsidiary of Danish Futuna Blue looks set to miss its target of selling 30,000 bluefin tuna fingerlings by year end
Spanish trap-net fishing companies plead for higher quota ‘to survive’
Small companies affected suggested they could get funding to use the trap-net fishing sites as tuna observatories for scientific purposes
Minister backs Balfego’s protests against ICCAT bluefin quota
In the past three years, Balfego has held on to healthy although declining profits by expanding sales from €19.7 million in 2010 to some €35.4m in 2012
Japanese trader to up farmed bluefin tuna output; survival rate
Plan to increase survival rate from 35% to 50% will boost production to 75,000 metric tons per year by 2016
Spain’s Balfego in bid to cut Japan reliance; slams ICCAT bluefin tuna decision
Spain's largest buefin tuna supplier said it is exploring new markets to cut its dependence on Japan, while expressing disappointment at decision not to increase Atlantic bluefin TAC