Balfego dismisses claims Cairn oil prospections in Valencia gulf could spoil bluefin tuna stock
The gulf of Valencia in Spain, where Cairn Energy plans to begin oil prospections this year, is neither a natural route nor a reproduction space for bluefin tuna, says industry player Balfego
Norway proposes to re-open for bluefin tuna fishing
Fisheries directorate is suggesting re-opening for fishing of the valuable fish in Norwegian waters in 2014, meaning country could catch its quota of 31t
NFI conference blog: Crustaceans lead the pack in US retail growth
Keep coming back to Undercurrent News for all the news from the NFI Global Seafood Markets Conference in Miami, Florida
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