(vasep.com.vn) Till the end of the third quarter of 2012, Vietnam shrimp exports touched over US$1.62 billion. Vietnam’s shrimp sales abroad in 2012 are scheduled to obtain over US$2.2 billion, representing a drop of 8.3 percent less than the preceding year (US$2.4 billion).

In September 17,492 tonnes of fresh fish entered the ports of Spain, 20.9 per cent less than in the same month last year (22,107 tonnes), reported Puertos del Estado.

French food agency FranceAgriMer confirms today's economic situation continues to impact how the French buy seafood, with overall demand falling slightly.

Fish landings accumulated up to September 2012 totalled 2.5 million tonnes, that is to say, 15.8 per cent less than in the first nine months of 2011, when 3 million tonnes were unloaded.

Thailand’s canned tuna industry issued a statement today, after it has been making headlines in recent weeks for multiple shipments that failed to meet EU health standards.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is asking decision-makers and the fishing industry to follow the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Scientific Committee’s recommendations: to make sure the bluefin tuna quota in the Eastern Atlantic and in the Mediterranean does not exceed 12,900 tonnes per year.

(IntraFish) America’s only home-grown aquaculture industry is fading fast as record feed prices join to the mix of challenges catfish producers face.

In mid-September, the fishing season got under way as usual in Ningbo, on China’s east coast, after the three-month season when fishing is forbidden. Over 2,000 steel-hulled boats headed out to sea. But, on board, there was little cause for optimism.

After enduring low prices because of a lobster glut this summer, Peter McAleney felt the seafood industry was finally starting to stabilize this fall. That is, until Superstorm Sandy hit the coast. The storm not only spread physical devastation, it shut down major seafood markets.

Peru's Ministry of Production said that fishing would be allowed from late November to the end of January to a maximum 810,000 tonnes of anchovy.

The exports of fish and fish preparations from the country witnessed increase of 7.22 percent during the first quarter of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year.

Chile exported USD 1.8 billion in seafood products to the Asian market in 2011. This figure represents 47.7% of USD 3.9 million of total shipments to the world.

(vasep.com.vn) In recent years, Japan has tightened their control on banned chemical testing on shrimp products imported from Vietnam.

The country’s major players and stakeholders in the tuna industry called anew on the Philippine government to institute vital reforms to energize the sector during the recently-concluded 14th National Tuna Congress and Trade Exhibit (NTC) held in Gen Santos City.

A new study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has revealed that the equivalent of 18,704 tonnes of live bluefin tuna were traded illegally via Panama between 2000-10 without being reported to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).