(seafood.com) Indonesia`s exports of canned tuna fish rose 13 percent year-on-year to US$160.4 million in the first half of the year.

(IntraFish) Its industry players want the government to make the country's fishery sector more competitive globally.

(vasep.com.vn) For the year to June 2012, exports of shrimp and pangasius of Vietnam slowed down, marine fish product shipment (particularly tuna and marine finfish items) remained positive advance thanks to increase in catch and imports of raw fish.

(vasep.com.vn) August 2012 witnessed a drastic reduction of 21.6 percent in Vietnam shrimp exports to almost markets, compared to August 2011. Exports to Japan declined 16.6 percent, exports to the U.S. fell 36.2 percent, to EU sank 34.2 percent.

(IntraFish) India can fulfill its potential as a tuna exporter if it improves how post-harvest practices, says fishery expert.

(TheFishSite) Native freshwater fish consumption will increase due to the increase of production in inland waters. This underlines the governemnts goal of enhancing the sector, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Prysiazhniuk.

(seafood.com) Latest reports indicate that Chile’s mussel exports continues to decline amid low availability of raw materials and contracting demand for the product.

(fis.com) Norwegian seafood exports in August totalled NOK 4 billion (EUR 543.2 million), representing a 13 per cent more than in the same month last year. Herring and salmon in particular are proving popular on the world market.

(SeafoodSource) Latest figures released by Spain’s fisheries ministry reveal something of a dichotomy: while households’ overall fish consumption levels are down 0.7 percent, there’s been a 2.1 percent increase in spending over the period June 2011 to June 2012.

(indiatimes.com) Though the fishing season has started in right earnest a fortnight back, low fish landings due to bad weather has kept the fish rates high in the domestic market.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Pangasius producing provinces in Mekong Delta has export 84,000 MT of pangasius, boosting total fish export volume to 377,000 MT so far this year.

(fis.com) The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA) expects in the next four years there will be a 10 time increase in aquaculture fish production, which currently is about 500,000 tonnes per year.

(VOV) Nearly 20 Vietnamese businesses have displayed different kinds of agro-forestry, seafood, tea, coffee, fruit and canned food products at the 21st international exhibition of food and drinks in Moscow, Russia.

(seafood.com) In a dramatic sign of the government support for sustainable seafood in China, the 10th Seaweb seafood summit held for the first time in Asia, was opened by China’s Director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Zhao Xingwu.

(SeafoodSource) The latest issue of the Globefish Highlights, published by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in mid-August, starkly illustrates the dramatic decline in sales of pangasius to European countries. Imports to the EU are down by a massive 27 percent in volume and 22 percent in value compared with the year before.