U.S. per-capita seafood consumption dropped to 15 pounds in 2011, according to figures released on Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service.

(vasep.com.vn) By the end of September 2012, prices for shrimp in Mekong Delta increased by VND 15,000 – 20,000 (US$0.7 – 1 USD)/kg over the those in July due to lack of raw shrimp.

(seafood.com) The crab plan team met in Seattle this week to review the survey data on Bering Sea snow crab and red king crab, among other species, and to provide guidance to the council and ADF&G on the status of the crab stocks.

(vasep.com.vn) Since April 2012, mollusk demand in international markets has been ups and downs. Vietnam exports of these products started to go down in June 2012 and keep this trend in the following months.

(SeafoodSource) The scallop catch could be cut up to 30 percent in each of the next two years in what fishermen say would be a heavy blow to the industry.

(vasep.com.vn) Portugal is the largest importer of bivalve mollusk and the eighth biggest consumer of cephalopod from Vietnam in the EU block. The country is one of three leading fish consumer markets in the EU after Spain and Italia. According to the report by CBI, seafood demand of Portuguese market has not been strongly impacted by economic crisis in the EU.

(thejakartaglobe.com) Shifts in the weather have changed the lives of today’s fishermen in Bali. They no longer can predict the best days to sail and catch fish. Maybe it’s because of climate change — Balinese fishermen leave it to scientists to figure out the reasons — but nonetheless, they need an immediate alternative to be able to maintain a steady income.

(SeafoodSource) Pangasius was one of the top movers on the annual U.S. seafood Top 10 list, compiled by the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) with data from the National Marine Fisheries Service. The most popular seafood species in terms of pounds per capita, are: Shrimp, canned tuna, salmon, Alaska pollock, tilapia, pangasius, catfish, crab, cod and clams.

(vasep.com.vn)Vietnam shrimp export to Japan is going down due to a strict regulation by Japanese authority on Ethoxyquin residue in all imported shrimp from the country. In August 2012, shrimp export to the market downed 16.6 percent after high growth during first seven months.

(CDPH – fis.com) The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is advising consumers not to eat recreationally harvested mussels and clams, commercially or recreationally caught anchovy and sardines, or the internal organs of commercially or recreationally caught crab and lobster taken from the northern Channel Islands located offshore of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Dangerous levels of the nerve toxin domoic acid have been detected in some of these species and may be present in the other species not yet tested. Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin that can cause illness or death in humans.

(Hoy) Ecuadorian tuna is reaching new markets. And one of the markets most interested is Venezuela, which is becoming an attractive prospect for Ecuadorian tuna exporters.

(vasep.com.vn) To the end of August 2012, Dong Thap province harvested fish in the area of 6,571 hectares. In which, pangasius farming expanse reached 1,457.48 hectares, including 701.49 hectares harvested and other 756 hectares in production. Surface area used for scampi cultivation was 1,206.6 hectares of which 210 hectares are coming into harvest. Superficies for other fish aquaculture reached 3,907 hectares in which 2,026 hectares were harvested and 1,880 hectares were in production.

(vcstar.com) American Samoa's governor says the territory will begin exporting canned tuna products to a foreign country for the first time.

(Manilastandardtoday) Senator Loren Legarda on Friday expressed alarm over the declining tuna stocks worldwide due to overfishing.

(TheFishSite) Total catch of Icelandic vessels in August 2012 was 100,401 tonnes compared with 109,814 tonnes in August 2011.