(seafood.com) Japan's purchase of king, snow crab show recovery in July; imports of frozen pollock roe from U.S. and Russia total about 40,000 tons

(Vietnam News Brief) Vietnam earned over $1.066 billion from pangasius fish exports in the year up to August 15, rising 1.8% from the same period last year.

(vasep.com.vn) In the second quarter of 2012, Vietnam shrimp exports reached US$579.22 million, up 8.24 percent from that of the same period of 2011. Through June 2012, shrimp exports gained US$1.015 billion, up 4.5 percent over that of the same period last year. Along with persistent epidemic on shrimp starting since the first quarter of this year, in the second quarter, main bottlenecks of shrimp sector are barriers from consuming markets, reduction in global shrimp price led to loss in shrimp’s competitiveness, increase in raw material price and input costs. In June, shrimp exports tended to drop by 4 percent and may be continued unless barriers from importers are removed, especially Japanese market which inspected Ethoxyquin residue on shrimp consignments originated from Vietnam. Shrimp production and export situation in the second quarter of 2012 include 10 remarkable points as follows:

(IntraFish) US catfish farmers are struggling to make ends meet as catfish feed prices rocket -- they hovered near $250 (€199) a ton for two decades before jumping to $600 (€477) a ton in the past two years, the New York Times reported last week.

(seafood.com) Russian fishermen have caught 2.83 million tonnes of fish since the beginning of the year, which is 0.8% more than they caught in the same period of 2011.

(fis.com) The Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex), under the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), decided to reduce the import tax applied to frozen sardines, from 10 per cent to 2 per cent.

(vasep.com.vn) Over the five recent years, Vietnam has remained the leading supplier of pangasius to Singapore. Vietnam’s earnings from fish export to the market were 2 times higher than that of Indonesia – Singapore’s second largest supplier.

(brecorder) Although Pakistan's seafood exports have grown considerably even after the EU ban, yet this achievement cannot be attributed to real increase in terms of value.

(TheFishSite) Mississippians do not have to look far to see the impact of the Midwest’s historic drought, as the state’s catfish farmers already feel the pinch of sky-high feed costs.

(IntraFish) Bloggers, politicians and political pundits across the United States are having a hey day with the gridlock the US catfish inspection program has caused in the US House of Representatives, and the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is part of the groundswell of voices calling out for the program’s repeal.

(TheFishSite) Thawed fish fillets are becoming more and more common in supermarkets across Europe. This can lead to serious consequences for Norwegian fillet companies according to research by Nofima scientists.

(SeafoodSource) UK fish consumption in 2012 has already matched what our seas can supply for the year, leaving us reliant on imported cod and haddock for fish and chips, campaigners have warned. Annual fish supplies from our seas can only satisfy demand for 233 days, so if the UK were to rely on its own fisheries for the year we would run out of stocks by Tuesday, a report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) calculated.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam total production of wild-caught and farmed fish reached 2.627 millon MT in January - June 2012, 5 percent above the same time of 2011, it was still unable to satisfy the country’s need of raw materials for processing for export. Uncertain supply of seafood material(particularly marine fish) and more expensive price of these caused by rising input costs make processors keep increasing their imports of raw seafood from outside.

(fis.com) Last June Peruvian fish exports generated USD 377.4 million in revenues, up 2.8 per cent more than in the same month in 2011, when their value was USD 367.1 million, the Ministry of Production (Produce) reported.

(TheFishSite) The name Yancheng Long Xia has been formally registered as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) for a natural wild shellfish living in the convergence of fresh and salt water areas.