(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.

(IntraFish) Concerns over the European Commission’s leaked proposal for a 3.5 percent duty on pollock imports into the European Union (EU) have softened with the release of new plans to nix the tax.

(IntraFish) US catfish imports are up 57 percent over last year for the first half of 2012, to 11 million kilos. Pangasius from Vietnam is a major factor in the import increase. Imports are up to 10.6 million kilos from 6.7 million kilos last year.

(atuna.com) Italy is showing increased dependence on other countries for its canned tuna supply.

(seafood.com) American meteorologists are forecasting El Nino conditions for the rest of the year, and the warmer water temperatures will strongly affect tuna catches in the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean.

(vasep.com.vn) According to La Fédération française des Industries d'Aliments Conservés (FIAC), among EU block, Spain is a predominant tuna consumer with the highest average consumption per capita of 2.18 kilogram per year.