Fresh seafood has increasingly become a strategic priority in hypermarkets and supermarkets due to the sector’s huge growth potential, said Roberto Butrageno, retailer services manager at Nielsen.

According to the “Fisheries of the United States 2012” report, the average American ate 14.4 pounds of seafood in 2012, a 4 percent drop from the 2011 figure of 15.0 pounds.

Chilean seafood export volumes were down in the first quarter of 2014, but seafood production volumes and the overall value of exports were up, according to Chilean government figures.

The value of Chile’s seafood exports increased 9.9 percent for the first eight months of 2013, thanks to economic recovery in some markets and a higher premium for some of the country’s seafood.

Popular seafood items are drifting away from ordinary consumers in Japan due to soaring prices.

(vasep.com.vn) Due to sluggish demand for cephalopod from Spain (the largest cephalopod importer in the EU block), suppliers shifted to other potential markets in the region such as Italy, Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

(vasep.com.vn) HaLong Service and Import Export Joint Stock Company (HaLong Simexco) earned US$255.39thousand of seafood export to Japan in September 2013, including US$177.99 thousand from fish cakes and US$77.4 thousand from frozen octopus products.

Norway will allow fish farms to increase output by around 5 percent, or 60,000 tones a year, but only if they meet stricter regulations on sea lice, the biggest challenge for the sector, Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker said on Monday.

(vasep.com.vn) Besides pangasius, shrimp, squid; surimi is increasingly playing an important part among Vietnam's total seafood exports. However, surimi production is operated on the small scale with backward technology and lack of value added products. As a result, surimi products produced domestically failed to meet high demand from strict markets such as Japan, the U.S.

(vasep.com.vn) At the early July 2014, the Government's decree on some policies to develop fisheries industry will be approved, according to the Directorate of Fisheries.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, through mid-October 2013, Vietnam crab exports obtained US$77.8 million, declining 11.9 percent year-on-year.

The Alaska departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health and Social Services (DHSS) have received results from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on radiation testing of Alaska seafood. The results confirm information from federal, State and international agencies that seafood in the North Pacific and Alaska waters poses no radiation related health concerns to those who consume it.

Argentina exported 329,751 tonnes of seafood between January and September, 2013, a figure which shows an increase of 14.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2012, when 286 899 tonnes were shipped abroad.