(seafood.com) According to Globefish market reports the volume of world tuna catches did not grow in the first quarter of 2012.

(thehindubusinessline) Marine Products Exports Development Authority organised a national workshop to improve long-line fisheries for tuna and other large pelagic fish species.

(TheFishSite) On August 20, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) celebrated the market launch of its global, independent trademark for responsibly farmed seafood. Tilapia from Indonesia is the first farmed fish to meet the ASC's certification standard.

(TheFishSite) Despite one of the leading exporters of fish and its products, the country's inland fish production has dismayed compared to marine production during recently ended financial year 2011-12.

(vasep.com.vn) According to statistics from Vietnam Customs, in July 2012, the country totaled US$5.1 million of pangasius sales to Brazil, down nearly 26.8 percent from the same time last year. This made year-to-date earnings export equal the value of the same period of last year, reached US$34.35 million.

(seafood.com) The level of demand and consumption of fish in Germany is steadily growing, according to recent data, provided by German Fish Information Center. 



(seafood.com) Total allowable catches (TAC) for sprat, herring and plaice in the Baltic Sea can be raised, the European Commission said today (17 August), because the number of stocks managed at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) is likely increasing, and could move from three to six in 2013.

(seafood.com) While the FAO overall food price index rose 6% in July 2012, largely due to increases in grain prices due to weakening outlooks. This index does not include seafood.

(atuna.com) The total import volume of frozen pre-cooked tuna loins of the U.S. market plummeted to an astounding low last year, with the category’s two major exporters, Thailand and Fiji, following the downward trend.

(vasep.com.vn) Annually, Mexico imported a large amount of seafood from Vietnam in which tuna is one of products that is loved by Mexican people. Among key Vietnam seafood items exported to Mexico, tuna ranks the second position in export value after pangasius.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first 7 months of this year, seafood exports attained US$3.42 billion, up 8.5 percent over that of the same period of 2011. The increase was attributable to remarkable proportion in export value of tuna and other marine finfish. However, in July 2012, export value only reached US$530.6 million, down slightly 1.5 percent over that of the same period of 2011.

(vasep.com.vn) Taiwan is the largest 7th importer of Vietnam shrimp after Japan, the U.S., China, South Korea, Australia and Germany. Shrimp shipment to the market remained the stable growth during first seven months of 2012.

(atuna.com) After the problems with the salmonella outbreak in the USA caused by raw tuna processed in India, new urgent steps are being taken to upgrade the quality of tuna raw materials in India

(vasep.com.vn) In January - July, export value of frozen, fresh, live squid to French market increased nearly double-fold over that of the same period of last year. For the year to date, France – a single market in EU block - reported the highest growth in imports of Vietnam cephalopod.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam pangasius export to the Philippines keeps growing over the ten recent years. From the smallest consumer of Vietnam pangasius, the Philippines have now climbed to the second place among ASEAN countries in importing the fish from Vietnam.