(IntraFish) Chinese plants are buying H&G cod again, with the price creeping up from the low levels of earlier in the year. Headed and gutted (H&G) Atlantic cod is selling at as much as $3,400 (€2,579) per metric ton, up from $3,150 (€2,389) at the end of March, a source in China told IntraFish.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Directorate of Fisheries, aquaculture production in September 2013 was estimated to register 284 thousand MT, driving the estimated figure in the first 9 months of 2013 to 2,359 thousand MT, up 2.3 percent from the same time of 2012.

(NASS-USDA) Farm-raised catfish processed during March 2012 totaled 27.7 million pounds round weight, down 9 percent from March 2011. The average price paid to producers was $1.20 per pound for March 2012, down 2.8 cents from last month but 12.6 cents above a year ago.

(zambotimes.com) The local aquaculture industry is looking at boosting the production of pangasius to meet growing demand for pangasius fillet both in the local and foreign market. The industry even targets to at least substitute the country's importation of pangasius fillet with locally-grown pangasius by 2016.

(szdaily.com) BRANCH stores of Carrefour in Shenzhen have suspended sales of cod products as it is suspected that its stock of the products is actually oilfish.

(vasep.com.vn) Sai Gon-Mekong Fishery Company (SAMEFICO) has been granted GlobalGAP certificate for two pangasius hatcheries, helping to develop the firm’s completed fish production chain from “farm to table”.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Over recent three years, a lot of pangasius farmers, processors and exporters have got trouble in their business or faced bankruptcy due to downing import trend in consumer markets. The U.S Department of Commerce’s higher antidumping tax on frozen pangasius fillets also made the industry unstable.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2011, Anvifish Joint Stock Company has overcome difficulties and remained its operation thanks to trade strategies set by the company’s leaders, great efforts taken by its staff and confidence of customers, said Luu Bach Thao, Anvifish’s Chairman and General Director.

(SeafoodSource) Seventeen U.S. senators signed a 24 April letter to Debbie Stabenow, chair of the senate’s Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, urging her to repeal a rule that would transfer inspection of imported catfish from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).