(seafood.com) Prices of tilapia in the US continue to trend downwards as a record surge of US imports continues to flood the market.

(TheFishSite) GLOBAL - Fifteen countries and territories and their development partners met in Noumea last month for a joint Secretariat of the Pacific Community/Food and Agriculture Organisation workshop to discuss how climate change will affect Pacific fisheries and aquaculture.

(Arirang News) Korea has flat-out rejected Japan's demand to restrict the catching of bluefin tuna.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first four months of 2012, Thailand squid exporters faced lack of raw material because domestic catch volume failed to meet the demand.

(Courthouse News) The National Marine Fisheries Service will allow the U.S. longline bluefin tuna fleet to land just over 76 metric tons of the prized tuna in 2012. The increase in the 2012 quota is due to underharvest in 2011.

(fis.com) The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Davao region has called on stakeholders to actively participate in the promotion of pangasius fish as a family staple.

(fis.com) Filipino fishing companies will have to stick to a 165,000 tonne annual limit of tuna catches and eventually to a reduction of the country’s 300 fishing vessels, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said.

(Thefishsite) Stuart Lumb, contributor to TheFishSite, visits the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam to look at catfish production. Fish farming and the Mekong Delta are synonymous - when you want to see fish farming in the country you have to travel to this part of Viet Nam. This complex delta system is contained in a triangular area to the west of Ho Chi Minh City, with many of the villages in the delta connected by water rather than by roads.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, seafood exports for the year to June reached over US$2.89 billion, reporting a 10.6 percent growth compared to that of the same period of 2011.

(vasep.com.vn) On 27th June and 3rd July 2012, VASEP held meetings with representatives of 30 local leading pangasius exporters (accounting for more than 80 percent of Vietnam total fish export value) to establish the floor price for pangasius in an aim to keep the real value of the fish. The new price will be firstly applied to the U.S. market.

(House of Japan) Japan’s Fisheries Agency has asked the South Korean government to curtail bluefin tuna catches in light of a surge in tuna imports from the neighboring country, as Tokyo has concerns that internationally agreed on fishing controls are not observed there, sources close to the matter said Monday.

(fis.com) In May, about 1,243,900 tonnes of fishery resources were landed in Peruvian ports, a volume that represents a rise of 1.3 per cent compared to 1,227,300 tonnes registered in the same month in 2011.

(fis.com) FAO's latest flagship publication on the state of fisheries and aquaculture reveals that the sector produced a record 128 million tonnes of fish for human consumption, providing about 15 percent of their animal protein intake to 4,300 million people.

(vasep.com.vn) As of the middle of June 2012, the U.S. continued to be an important market of Vietnam seafood with import value of US$515.8 million, up 14.5 percent from that of the same period of 2011.

(fis.com) The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), at its annual meeting in La Jolla, USA from 25 to 29 June, introduced the management measures of Pacific bluefin tuna for the first time.