Bigeye population reaching its limits, and measures must be taken to limit bigeye catches.

The European Commission wants to see the EU producer price for tuna processing increase by at least 2% next year.

Malta’s fishermen have attacked the decision not to increase quotas of bluefin tuna.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first month of 2012, Vietnam tuna exports had sign of decrease. However, between February to October 2012, tuna shipment kept double digit growth from 22.1 - 53.3 percent.

A EU committee approved new import duties on seafood processors. Their final adoption is a mere 'formality' now.

(vasep.com.vn) Recently, the local and international media published that China banned importing fresh, live shrimp originated from Vietnam. Some Vietnam shrimp exporters to China showed their concerns to the news. In fact, shrimp shipment to China in the past month was not affected, even exports has been boosted due to the market’s hiking demand for shrimp.

Indonesian government has a few pilot projects including a 1000-hectare 'demonstration' farm but questions over finances remain.

Producers of sustainable Northwest U.S. albacore tuna are promoting their product more in the U.S. after a drop in demand from Europe.

(vasep.com.vn) In the late August 2012, Russia formally became the 156th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Within the next 3 – 4 years, the country will slash import duty imposed on Vietnam fish from 10 percent to 6 percent.

Vietnamese yarn and agro-aqua products will enjoy deeper and faster tax cuts when entering the South Korean market under the free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated between Vietnam and South Korea.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) decided at its annual meeting on November 19 to expand the total allowable catch (TAC) of eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna for 2013 by 500 tons from the previous year to 13,400 tons--the first increase in the past decade.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has voted to set the 2013 catch level for the US West Coast Pacific sardine fishery at 66,495 tonnes.

(vasep.com.vn) According to report of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, total export turnover of agro-forestry and aquatic products during the past eleven months of 2012 touched US$25 billion, up 9.9 percent compared to the same period of 2011 in which seafood exports was estimated to hit US$5.6 billion.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that the world's wild fish harvest will fall to 90 million tons in 2012, down 2 percent from 2011.

The Commissioner of Fisheries of the European Union (EU), Maria Damanaki, ensures the EU executive will priorise aquaculture in its future budgets to leverage the growth of this sector with great prospects to create jobs.