Honduras continues to lead fresh tilapia exports to the United States, with over USD 95 million last year, said the head of the General Directorate of Fishing and Aquaculture (Digepesca), Renee Elizabeth Gutierrez.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has formed an alliance with the China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Alliance (CAPPMA) and WWF China to help the world’s biggest grower of tilapia to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way.
Myanmar plans to export farmed freshwater tilapia fish to the United States following the Friday, November 16 easing of an import ban, the vice chairman of the Myanmar Fisheries Federation said last week.
The National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (Conapesca) reported that between January and mid-October 2012, Sinaloa produced 4,552 tonnes of tilapia, considering both the capture fisheries and aquaculture production.
(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.
(SeafoodSource) The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is holding a press conference on 20 August to formally introduce the first ASC-labeled product — tilapia from a farm in Indonesia.
(seafood.com) Prices of tilapia in the US continue to trend downwards as a record surge of US imports continues to flood the market.
(vasep.com.vn) Bac Giang provincial
Nguyen Duc Minh Head Officer of Agriculture
(fis.com) In Ceará, tilapia production grew 50 per cent from February 2011 to the same month this year, according to figures from the Association of fish farmers from Ceará (Aceaq).
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