President Park Geun-hye rode on a Coast Guard boat this week, to get a firsthand look at red tides that have been sweeping through waters off South Korea's south coast for weeks and taking increasingly heavy tolls on fish farms there.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been refused more time to enact the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law by President Obama in January 2011.

The video detailing the Gulf Seafood Trace traceability, entitled “Your Seafood Has a Story: Gulf Seafood Trace," received Bronze Telly awards in the 2013 Film/Video competition in the “Nature/Wildlife” and “Corporate Training” categories of the 34th Annual Telly Awards recently.

Argentina exported 228,062 tonnes of seafood between January and July 2013, a figure that shows a rise of 3.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2012, when 220,604 tonnes had been shipped abroad.

The value of Norwegian seafood exports in July totalled NOK 4.7 billion (EUR 601.8 million), which is an increase of no less than NOK 1.2 billion (EUR 153.6 million) or 33 per cent compared to July 2012.

(vasep.com.vn) In August 2013, Vietnamese seafood exports are estimated to reach US$591 million, leading to a year-to-date value of US$4 billion, up 1.3 percent from the compatible period of 2012, according to Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Two more fisheries unions have been established in Duy Hai and Duy Nghia communes in Duy Xuyen district, the central coastal province of Quang Nam, raising the number of such unions in the province to four, with more than 400 members.

(vasep.com.vn) Seafood exports by Vietnam in August 2013 continued to increase by 4.5-5 percent to register an estimated turnover of US$590 million. The figure in Jan-Aug 2013 is to reach nearly US$4.1 billion, up 2.5 percent from the compatible period of 2012.

An upcoming webinar is geared toward helping food firms pass muster in SQF audits. Hosted by California-based SafetyChain Software and the Global Food Safety Resource Centre, the free September 20 event focuses on new Safe Quality Food (SQF) editions. The primary purpose is helping companies ready themselves for continuous SQF certification status.

Argentinean seafood producers are looking to China to pick up the slack of a weaker EU market.

(vasep.com.vn) NAFIQAD sent an official letter to DG-Sanco to require this agency to add more 32 Vietnamese seafood companies into its list of foreign exporters, as well as amend the information of 16 companies and withdraw 4 other companies from the list.

(vasep.com.vn) Competent authorities in the province are giving priorities to support businesses in agriculture and fishery sector, focusing on solving their difficulties and helping them ensure raw material supply for processing and exporting.

(vasep.com.vn) Scientists in Saigon Hi-tech Park have announced to produce successfully an enrofloxacin quick detecting kit.

(vasep.com.vn) In August 2013, MARD statistics showed that exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products are estimated to reach US$2.39 billion, leading to total value of US$17.98 billion in the first eight months of the year, down 1.1 percent from that of 2012.

Chinese authorities have scooped up around 110 metric tons of dead fish they say were poisoned by ammonia from a chemical plant, environmental officials and state media said Wednesday and reported by Associated Press.