The scope for boosting relationship between India and Australia in promoting tuna fish trade from Visakhapatnam was discussed during a recent meeting.

The Spanish government is eyeing to increase the quota for bluefin tuna, backed by an assessment by the Scientific Committee of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s pangasius sector got year-on-year drop in export to Russia in the third quarter and the first nine months of 2012. The industry reported US$12.4 million of pangasius sales to Russia in the second quarter of 2012, while it reached US$18.01 million in the same quarter of 2011.

Online grocery sales continue to grow, benefitting fresh and frozen seafood products, according to a new report.

The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission met in Trondheim, Norway yesterday to set the annual quotas for the main fish stocks in the Barents Sea. The two parties agreed that the quotas for cod will be a record high of one million tons in 2013. The fish is estimated to have a catch value of NOK 15 billion (€2 billion).

Myanmar's fisheries sector is not yet ready to take advantage of the proposed easing of sanctions by the European Union and United States, exporters said last week.

(vasep.com.vn) As of September 2012, Vietnam tuna exports touched US$436.2 million, up 53.2 percent from that of the same period of 2011.

The average CIF prices at Customs of Japanese imports of itoyori surimi in August was JPY 249/kg, down 2% on that of the previous month and up 1% on that of August 2011. In the first eight months, the average has been JPY 253, up 2% on that of the same period in 2011.

The shrimp complex generally carries a full steady to firm tone although demand is characterized by most as dull. Replacement offerings from many areas continue firm.

The government of India is hopeful that Japan will lift its ban on the import of shrimps from India, said director, Export Inspection Council of India (EICI), S K Saxena.

The Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Cepesca) welcomed the evident improvement of the bluefin tuna stock after having monitored this fishery for six years.

(vasep.com.vn) As of September 2012, Australia is the fifth largest single market of Vietnam seafood with the export turnover of US$138.7 million, up 22.7 percent from that of the same time last year.

Here in this easy-to-use handbook, the author, Robert DiGregorio, takes all the mystery and guesswork out of grading tuna.

(vasep.com.vn) As of the first half of September 2012, exports of Vietnam cephalopod and bivalve mollusk to Taiwan reported the deepest reduction compared to that of the same period of 2011 while statistics of Taiwan Customs showed that in the past 7 months, mollusk still made up nearly 30 percent of total import value of finfish and crustacean, mollusk and other aquatic invertebrates into Taiwan.

The Philippines should see a higher tuna catch starting next month after the country deployed 36 high-seas fishing vessels to the Pacific, a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) official said.