Tuna packers reach settlement in Calif. case

Published August 3, 2012 6:59pm ET



SAN DIEGO (AP) — Three major tuna packers accused of failing to meet federal requirements for the amount of fish in their cans reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with several California district attorneys, officials announced Friday.

San Diego-based Bumble Bee Foods LLC and Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, and Pittsburgh-based StarKist Co. agreed to pay $3.3 million in the settlement without any admission of wrongdoing, said San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis.

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