(fis.com) The Fiji Tuna Association of Stakeholders believes the reintroduction of a fish levy tax has tainted the country’s international reputation and incited foreign boats to leave Fiji’s shores.

(seafood com) U.S.-based seafood distributor and sushi operator foresee increased seafood imports from Japan to the U.S., helped by booming sushi business in the U.S.

(Blogpost by Oliver Knowles) In March, just a year after the launch of a planned three-year, multi-million dollar advertising push to try and increase sales of unsustainable canned tuna in the US, the “Tuna the Wonderfish” advertising campaign – funded by US tuna companies and executed by the US industry lobby group National Fisheries Institute (NFI) – has collapsed, having already spent a staggering USD 20 million (Euros 15 million) of a planned USD 60 million budget.

(Thefishsite) The South Pacific Tuna Treaty is currently being renegotiated. Tuna is the the largest economic interest shared by the US and the Pacific Islands.

(seafood.com) European tropical tuna traders and industry members met in Brussels today to protect their economic interests, said Eurothon in a press release.

(fis.com) The failure of international talks to agree on vital conservation measures for Pacific tuna mean stocks are now on course for collapse, says Greenpeace.

(atuna.com) The U.S. government suspended a 31-year-old reciprocal tuna fishing agreement with Canada last week and the blocked access could impact either country’s industry, says Lorne Clayton, director of an industry group in British Colombia, Canada.

(vasep.com.vn) Taiwanese people often like fresh, live finfish and seafood. However, due to busy life today and local people’s higher income, more and more people go shopping in supermarkets.

(VASEPNews) In Feb 2012, Vietnam tuna exports reached US$41.5 million, marking a 76.7 percent increase against Feb 2011, bringing total tuna export value in the first two months this year to US$74 million, up 22.1 percent.

(cogitasia.com) Tuna is the largest economic interest shared by the United States and the Pacific Islands, consequently the 1988 South Pacific Tuna Treaty has served as the cornerstone of US-Pacific relations.

(timesofmalta.com) Capture-based tuna farming will contribute about €73 million to the economy and account for over 1,000 jobs in 2025, according to a strategy on the aquaculture industry.

(rnzi.com) There will be a push for greater measures to stop the over-fishing of tuna and better protection of whitetip sharks and whale sharks at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission’s annual meeting.

(philstar.com) Philippines - Greenpeace today said the government should crack down on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and abandon its "environmentally harmful" call to lift the ban on fishing using fish aggregating devices (FAD) or the Philippines may lose the lucrative tuna market.

(Port Lincoln Times) Tuna fishers have nearly caught their quota for the season despite only being out on the water every one in seven days.

(atuna.com) The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) called for foreign fishing nations to stop their overfishing of bigeye tuna by taking action at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting next week.