(IntraFish) Indonesia is to host a workshop this week that will assess the economic and social benefits of supporting the country’s pole-and-line tuna fishery.

(vasep.com.vn) In the past time, the structure of export items from Vietnam to South Korea has witnessed positive changes in which agro-forestry and fisheries exports ranked the third position after textile and crude oil.

(seafoodsource) Norwegian salmon prices are still on the rise, reaching NOK 21.1 (EUR 2.86; USD 3.61) per kilogram during the week of 27 August to 2 September, Statistics Norway reported on Wednesday.

(vasep.com.vn) In the past five months, cephalopod exports to the U.S. marked consecutive double-digit growth over that of the same period of 2011. For the year to July, the U.S. outstripped Taiwan to become the 6thlargest importer of Vietnam cephalopod.

(seafoodsource) The market for fish and seafood in Germany presents a continuous growing demand, according to Hamburg-based organization Fish Information Centre (FIZ).

(seafood.com) Japan's purchase of king, snow crab show recovery in July; imports of frozen pollock roe from U.S. and Russia total about 40,000 tons

(Vietnam News Brief) Vietnam earned over $1.066 billion from pangasius fish exports in the year up to August 15, rising 1.8% from the same period last year.

(vasep.com.vn) In the second quarter of 2012, Vietnam shrimp exports reached US$579.22 million, up 8.24 percent from that of the same period of 2011. Through June 2012, shrimp exports gained US$1.015 billion, up 4.5 percent over that of the same period last year. Along with persistent epidemic on shrimp starting since the first quarter of this year, in the second quarter, main bottlenecks of shrimp sector are barriers from consuming markets, reduction in global shrimp price led to loss in shrimp’s competitiveness, increase in raw material price and input costs. In June, shrimp exports tended to drop by 4 percent and may be continued unless barriers from importers are removed, especially Japanese market which inspected Ethoxyquin residue on shrimp consignments originated from Vietnam. Shrimp production and export situation in the second quarter of 2012 include 10 remarkable points as follows:

(IntraFish) US catfish farmers are struggling to make ends meet as catfish feed prices rocket -- they hovered near $250 (€199) a ton for two decades before jumping to $600 (€477) a ton in the past two years, the New York Times reported last week.

(seafood.com) Russian fishermen have caught 2.83 million tonnes of fish since the beginning of the year, which is 0.8% more than they caught in the same period of 2011.

(fis.com) The Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex), under the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), decided to reduce the import tax applied to frozen sardines, from 10 per cent to 2 per cent.

(vasep.com.vn) Over the five recent years, Vietnam has remained the leading supplier of pangasius to Singapore. Vietnam’s earnings from fish export to the market were 2 times higher than that of Indonesia – Singapore’s second largest supplier.

(brecorder) Although Pakistan's seafood exports have grown considerably even after the EU ban, yet this achievement cannot be attributed to real increase in terms of value.

(TheFishSite) Mississippians do not have to look far to see the impact of the Midwest’s historic drought, as the state’s catfish farmers already feel the pinch of sky-high feed costs.

(IntraFish) Bloggers, politicians and political pundits across the United States are having a hey day with the gridlock the US catfish inspection program has caused in the US House of Representatives, and the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is part of the groundswell of voices calling out for the program’s repeal.