(vasep.com.vn) Through September 2013, Ho Chi Minh City has exported more than 7 million of ornamental fishes, increasing up 3.5 percent from the same time of last year. The city totaled 63 million of ornamental fishes, up 14.5 percent against 2012. Exports of these species also got rise of 32 percent in the first half of 2013.

(SeafoodSource) “I want to bring oyster culture to China,” said Chris Herbert, a Canadian seafood importer and co-owner of the Starfish seafood restaurant and oyster bar in Beijing.

(fis.com) An official from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) announced that sardine population is expected to increase after the lifting of fishing ban in March.

(SeafoodSource) Overfishing EU fisheries is costing GBP 2.7 billion annually and 100,000 jobs, according to a new report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF).

At the recent surimi forum in Japan, held at the end of August, representatives from different producing regions estimated total supplies for 2013.

Smaller, generally more overlooked fish, such as anchovies, sardines and smelt, are finding themselves more and more on appetizer and entree menus in restaurants, according to Nation's Restaurant News.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tra Vinh province, in August 2013, local fish farmers stocked 4,173 hectares and harvested 11,066 MT.

According to the financial statements

(IntraFish) Russia is becoming a huge market for Turkey's fishing industry, said Turkey’s Seafood Promotion Committee, in a news report by Today's Zaman. Russia's fish imports from Turkey were $920,000 (€697,075) in 2008 and increased to $21 million (€15.9 million) in 2011, the committee's president, Melih Islie, said.

In the first 9 months of 2010 Khanh

(IntraFish) A new interim rule, consistent with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA) and issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows the FDA to "access records pertaining to articles of food that the Secretary of Health and Human Services believes in a reasonable manner" would cause adverse health consequences to humans or animals, according to a government website.

(vasep.com.vn) In August 2013, HaLong Service and Import Export Joint Stock Company (Halong Simexco) earned US$351 thousand from seafood exports to Japan. In which, fish cakes valued at US$271.6 thousand and frozen octopus products US$79.9 thousand.

There are many elements conspiring against the eel’s survival. Almost all of these are the result of man’s activities, such as the removal of natural eel habitats, increased marine pollutants, the location of barriers to migration and the introduction of marine turbines and pumps.

(IntraFish) South Korea was Russia's top seafood market in value in 2011, while China bought the highest volume. South Korea bought more than $1 billion (€767 million) worth of seafood from Russia in 2011 -- making it Russia’s most valuable seafood market that year, according to Russian official figures.

(IntraFish) Prices of fish feed raw material are likely to become more volatile than usual this year, the head of Skretting, Knut Nesse said.