Little Tuna

Little Tuna 100% Australian caught, owned and made premium tuna. Sustainably caught off the Queensland coast, using fresh Australian ingredients.
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The Only Aussie-Made Wild Tuna 🐟
🍃MSC Certified
🇦🇺Australian | Line-Caught | Wild & Proud
🤙Est. 2015 | Cairns Qld
🫶🏻Supporting Australian Fishing Families
🏆Award winning
See our tinned range 👉 East Coast Tuna Co. High in protein and omega 3, now available in 5 flavours. The Lamason's family business Little Tuna will change your perspective on preserved tuna. Each jar of Little Tuna’s Australian Tuna contains a generous chunky steak of Premium Albacore tuna. What we love about Little Tuna:

• Wild Australian line-caught tuna
• Sustainable fishing practices
• All fresh Australian ingredients
• No preservatives, artificial colours or flavours
• High source of omega 3 and protein
• MSC Certified

All our products contain fresh ingredients making it a delicious option full of flavour for the perfect companion to salads, sandwiches, wraps, pasta dishes or just enjoy straight from the jar.

we are joining forces with tosupport how means for sustainable seafood month. 🐟💙
30/09/2026

we are joining forces with to
support how means for sustainable seafood month. 🐟💙

Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take that for granted.We ...
24/09/2026

Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take that for granted.

We are as always blown away by the support and love our products receive, so we want to continue to share some of that amazing feedback we've gotten from all of you. As your support means the sea to us, so keep sending your reviews and feedback our way. 🌊

Thank you for being part of the Little Tuna family, today we want to shoutout to Aniek, thank you so much for your review. 💙

17/09/2026

Let me show you how quota actually works. 📊🎣

Australia is one small part of a much bigger international tuna fishery. 🌊

🇦🇺 Here at home, AFMA uses science, stock assessments and catch data to set the Total Allowable Commercial Catch or TACC for each species, and fishers must hold quota rights to cover what they catch. 🔬📝

For albacore, Australia’s TACC is 2,500 tonnes which is equivalent to only about 3.4% of the albacore caught across the wider South Pacific fishery. 📉🐟 And quota doesn’t mean we catch every tonne.

Fish move. 🌊 Weather changes. ⛈️ Markets change. 📊 Sometimes boats simply don’t fish. ⚓

Quota tells us what we’re allowed to catch under a science-based management system. 📋✅

And here’s the part people often miss: 💡 less Australian fishing doesn’t automatically mean less fishing.

⚠️ Tuna keep moving through the Pacific across borders and marine park boundaries while the international fishery keeps operating under different management and monitoring systems. 🌐🚢

That’s why keeping Australian fishing families in this fishery matters because when tuna are caught by our fleet, we know the system they come through: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🇦🇺

Science-based catch limits. 🔬📉
Satellite tracking. 🛰️📍
Cameras and electronic monitoring. 📸💻
Mandatory reporting. 📝✅
Independent MSC sustainability certification. 🏆🌱

And South Pacific albacore is scientifically assessed as not overfished, with overfishing not occurring. 📈🐟

37 vessels. 🛥️ Australian fishing families. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Science-backed quota. 📋 A fishery we can see, measure and hold accountable. 🔍💯

Protecting tuna shouldn’t only be about where fishing doesn’t happen. 🛡️ It should also be about making sure that where fishing does happen, it’s done well. 🌊👍

You know Watt we mean. 😉🎣

Tin the Know - your source of truth for real Australian commercial tuna fishing. 🥫💡

Share this one around. 🗣️🔄

Tuna Australia

Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take that for granted.We ...
08/09/2026

Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take that for granted.

We are as always blown away by the support and love our products receive, so we want to continue to share some of that amazing feedback we've gotten from all of you. As your support means the sea to us, so keep sending your reviews and feedback our way. 🌊

Thank you for being part of the Little Tuna family, today we want to shoutout to Ruth, thank you so much for your review of our sardines. 💙

Who said tuna doesn’t belong on a cheese board? 🧀🍷Little Tuna does 🐟 Premium albacore, packed in olive oil, 100% Austral...
03/09/2026

Who said tuna doesn’t belong on a cheese board? 🧀🍷
Little Tuna does 🐟 Premium albacore, packed in olive oil, 100% Australian caught & Made. Date night, sorted

Every seafood choice has a footprint. The only question is: where do you want yours to land? 👀🐟Australia looks after the...
30/08/2026

Every seafood choice has a footprint. The only question is: where do you want yours to land? 👀🐟

Australia looks after the 3rd largest fishing zone on Earth, with fisheries operating under some of the world’s highest sustainability and monitoring standards.

Yet only around 1 in 3 bites of seafood eaten here is actually Australian.

And for our beloved canned tuna?

Around 1 in 1,000 tins is Australian tuna.

So when more of the seafood we eat is caught overseas, its environmental and social footprint can move overseas too sometimes into places with weaker fisheries management, environmental oversight and labour protections than ours.

There’s a name for this:

seafood footprint displacement.

And here’s the bit worth thinking about:

If well managed Australian fishers stopped supplying that seafood, Australians wouldn’t suddenly stop eating it. More of that demand would simply be met somewhere else.

The seafood still gets eaten. The footprint just happens somewhere else.

Backing our Australian fishing families keeps more of what we eat connected to science backed management, monitoring and accountability.

And that matters well beyond our own coastline. 🌏

Our Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery has been Marine Stewardship Council certified since 2015, the same global standard used to judge sustainable seafood anywhere in the world. That’s independently verified and it’s exactly why we’re proud of where Australian tuna comes from.

For Australian tuna the gap is huge.

1 in 1,000 today.
Our goal: 1 in 100.

Support Australian fishing families. Help us close the gap.

Know where your tuna comes from. Know the people who catch it.

Choose Australian tuna. 🇦🇺🐟 Share this around 🙌🏻

Thanks to our friends at Queensland Seafood Industry Association QSIA for bringing this conversation forward and to the JCU: James Cook University -led research team behind the work on Australia’s seafood imports and seafood footprint displacement.
See the report here - https://qsia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Media-Release_Martins_2026_Environ._Res.__Food_Syst._3_032003.pdf?fbclid=IwVERDUAUAyBlwZG9mBWZkaWQWUNdBFLQ6Bvp7Iy-aHextsSXY2fQ-82V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5vvskqf7RdrTo6cLr999NlDkEG8Je7Cs4y5k3qcwqYHPlZXpayBewixNoaVA_aem_gbGOn_luKiYn6Ok8izKsIg

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💙 YOU SAID IT BEST 💙Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take ...
19/08/2026

💙 YOU SAID IT BEST 💙
Every order of our jars and tins continues to support Australian fishing families and we never take that for granted.

We are as always blown away by the support and love our products receive, so we want to continue to share some of that amazing feedback we've gotten from all of you. As your support means the sea to us, so keep sending your reviews and feedback our way. 🌊

Thank you for being part of the Little Tuna family, today we want to shoutout to Clare, thank you so much for your review. 💙

14/08/2026

37 boats. That’s it. 🇦🇺🐟

When you hear tuna fleet, you might picture something enormous. But the reality? Just 37 vessels fishing one bloody big ocean. 🌊

And here’s the bit people often miss: 37 vessels doesn’t mean 37 boats are out there fishing every single day. Boats come and go with seasons, weather, maintenance and fishing conditions. 🐟

When they are out there, our tuna fishery is managed, camera monitored, tracked and backed by science. 📊

Small fleet. Big ocean. A LOT of oversight. And some seriously good tuna. 🤌

Our fishers make their living from these waters. Looking after them isn’t a marketing line it matters to the future of their families, their businesses and the fishery they love itself.

Australian tuna. Science backed. Highly monitored. Proudly fished. 🇦🇺🐟

Know where your tuna comes from. Know the people who catch it.

Eat Australian tuna.

06/08/2026

🍲 Quick Green Curry with Lemon Myrtle Tuna 🍋🐟
(Makes 2 large serves ✌️)

🛒 Ingredients

🐟 1 jar of Little Tuna Lemon Myrtle Tuna
🧄 2 garlic cloves, grated
🫚 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
🍛 2 tsp of green curry paste (more if you like it spicier 🌶️!)
🥥 1 cup of coconut milk
🥣 1 cup of vegetable stock
🥦 2 handfuls of green vegetables (we chose broccoli and green beans 🌱)
🍜 100g of rice noodles, prepared as per packet instructions

🍋 Lime, 🌿 fresh coriander, 🌶️ fresh chilli, and 🥜 cashews, to serve
🥄 1 tsp of mild flavoured oil

👩‍🍳 Method

🍳 Fry the aromatics: Fry the garlic and ginger in oil until fragrant, add the curry paste and cook until it begins to dry out.

Quickly add the coconut milk and stock and bring to the boil. 🫧

🥦 Cook the greens: Add the vegetables and simmer for 2-3 minutes until just tender. ⏱️

🍜 Serve and enjoy: Divide the prepared rice noodles into two bowls. Top with the curry mix and vegetables, before finishing with Little Tuna Lemon Myrtle Tuna, cashews, fresh chilli, a generous squeeze of fresh lime and fresh coriander. ✨🤤

Address

39 Aumuller Steet
Cairns, QLD
4870

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8:30am - 1pm

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