The value of Norwegian seafood exports in the first six months of 2013 totalled NOK 26.9 billion (EUR 3.4 billion), a figure representing an increase of NOK 1.8 billion (EUR 227 million) or 7.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council.

This week an official delegation from Chile is visiting the Popular Republic of China in order to maintain contacts with local sanitary and food authorities, and to become aware of and be able to contrast the sanitary regulations of both countries.

Keeping up the trend of the past few months, US salmon imports rose 9.2 percent in tonnage from May 2012 to May 2013, according to statistics released Wednesday from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

The aquaculture production of Ca Mau province in the early 2013 totaled more than 237,000 MT, 8.3 percent up year on year, constituting 55 percent of the set yearly target.

The volume of salmon catch in Russia’s Far East basin this year may decline by almost 30%, compared to 2012, according to predictions of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries.

INDICATION has emerged that the southeast states of Nigeria have embraced Catfish farming with the determination to make significant production input to the targeted one million metric tons annual national output in five years time.

(seafood.com) Virginia is coping with its first run-in with a phrase no one in public health or the seafood business ever wants to hear: oyster disease outbreak.

French producers falling deeper into herpes hole, and pulling other countries in.

(vasep.com.vn) According to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, through the year to date, capture fisheries production of the whole country counted for over 1.4 million MT, representing an increase of over 10 percent from that of the same period of 2012.

Fishery and aquaculture product exports in Chile reached a value of USD 2,172.1 million in the first five months of 2013. This figure represents an increase of 4.9 per cent over the same period of 2012, when USD 2,070.1 million was obtained.

US East Coast-based crab processor Mattamuskeet Seafood was one of 45 such crab processors in the state of North Carolina in the mid-1990s -- now it is one of 10, thanks to the rise inimported crabmeat, reported the Charlotte Observer.

In May Peruvian fish exports generated USD 121.6 million in revenue, representing 30.2 per cent less than in the same month in 2012, when their value was USD 174.1 million, the Ministry of Production (Produce) reported.

Chile’s seafood landings dropped nearly 30 percent in the first half of 2013 compared to last year, according to the Chilean government.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, in the first 6 months of 2013, crab exports to China reported a value of US$3.6 million, up 26.8 percent compared to that of the same period of 2012.

(vasep.com.vn) Seafood Joint Stock Company No4 (Seapriexco No4) gained VND232 billion of net revenue, 12 percent higher than that of the compatible period of 2012. Its net profit was VND5.7 billion, up 11 percent, according to the company’s financial report issued the Q.II/2013.