Name: Why Americans Fell Out Of Love With Canned Tuna
Uploaded: 2023-10-31T21:34:15.000Z
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We've been tagging and tracking fish for literally

decades. Over those years is a distinct pattern that

But in the last several years, that pattern is no

Today he's the owner of Sacred Sea Tuna, a family

Rick is just a small part of the massive $40 billion

tuna industry in its latest tracking from NOAA.

The US imported over 637 million pounds of tuna in

Over the course of the 40 plus years I've been in the

fishing industry, we've had to learn to be more

adaptable and more nimble in our response to new

technologies, new markets, changes in global markets.

The industry is largely made up of multinational

conglomerates, with large fleets of suppliers sourcing

tuna for household names like chicken of the sea,

owned by Thai Union Group, the largest seafood producer

At the union is around 4 to $4.5 billion, and it has

been growing quite nicely over the past two years.

But despite its vast scale, the canned tuna industry has

faced some serious challenges since 2000.

Per capita consumption has dropped by more than 45%, a

decline mainly triggered by shifting consumer

preferences. But there are also some other challenges,

competition, questions around sustainability and

transparency, and a price fixing scandal lasting

The CEO of Bumblebee ended up getting indicted and then

This is a $40 billion industry so unsustainable,

illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing is a

Cnbc visited chicken of the seas packaging facility in

Mckinleyville, California, to get a better idea of the

inner workings of the $40 billion tuna industry.

In the heart of Georgia's countryside lies one of

America's largest canned tuna processing facilities.

I'm standing in front of our giant drive in freezer.

These frozen pallets are brought in through the Port

of Savannah, where we receive them from processing

Most of our fish are processed in Thailand, but

we also receive fish processed from other areas

Most major tuna brands, like chicken of the Sea and Wild

Planet do not have their own dedicated fishing

fleets. Instead, fishing is outsourced to third party

We don't have any, any, any boats, any fishing boats on

this one. So we are buying all our fish from third

party suppliers and we don't control them at all.

Of course we are significant because we are

producing maybe one can out of 4 or 5 within the within

Canned tuna has been a staple in American pantries

The process of how it gets into American homes looks

Thai Union and other similar entities primarily

gather tuna from global fishing fleets and tuna rich

zones. Fishing vessels spend days or even weeks

Some even prolong their time at sea using

transshipment, a process of where they offload their

catch to a carrier ship, resupply and head back out

for more. Once caught, the tuna is prepped for

processing, and that's in Thailand, where the tuna is

frozen, and from there it's transported to places like

Lyons, Georgia. The tuna shipped from Thailand is

then thought at chicken of the seas canning facility to

It's then unwrapped from its plastic casing, cut to

size for cans filled with brine, oil or water.

Then pressure cooked in its retort process, where about

Once the tuna is done cooking, it's then ready for

shipping. But there are other ways to prepare canned

So I began canning tuna in 1999 with just pure tuna in

the can with only salt, no water or oil, and that cooks

in the can. Exactly the same as my Portuguese family

method that we had done for decades before, that

conventional tuna processing is done with pre

cooking of the tuna in ovens and then cleaning the

tuna once it's cooked, and the meat is firm and easy to

clean, and then it's packed in the can but it's lost its

moisture. And so they have to add water or oil and then

cook it again in the sterilization process.

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