SAN DIEGO -- Three major tuna packers have agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a claim that they underfilled their canned products, thereby violating federal packing standards.

Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea and Starkist entered into the settlement without any admission of wrongdoing, and the prosecutors in the case acknowledge that the companies and their counsel worked cooperatively with the prosecutors’ offices to resolve this matter promptly. The case was handled for San Diego by Deputy District Attorney Gina Darvas.