(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam total production of wild-caught and farmed fish reached 2.627 millon MT in January - June 2012, 5 percent above the same time of 2011, it was still unable to satisfy the country’s need of raw materials for processing for export. Uncertain supply of seafood material(particularly marine fish) and more expensive price of these caused by rising input costs make processors keep increasing their imports of raw seafood from outside.

(fis.com) Last June Peruvian fish exports generated USD 377.4 million in revenues, up 2.8 per cent more than in the same month in 2011, when their value was USD 367.1 million, the Ministry of Production (Produce) reported.

(TheFishSite) The name Yancheng Long Xia has been formally registered as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) for a natural wild shellfish living in the convergence of fresh and salt water areas.

(vasep.com.vn) The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has recently released the preliminary results of the Eighth antidumping duty administrative review (POR8) on certain frozen fish fillets imported from Vietnam from 1st August 2010 to 31st July 2011.

(The Saigon Times Daily) Vietnam’s tra fish exports to the U.S. rose by 35% year-on-year as of August 15, while exports to the European Union (EU) market fell sharply, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reports.

(fis.com) India's marine exports are likely to grow by over 28 per cent year-on-year to USD 4.5 billion in the current fiscal on rising demand in western markets During 2011-12, seafood exports stood at USD 3.5 billion, according to the data provided by the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA).

(Business Mirror) With the conservation measures it has put in place and the re-opening of a portion of the Pacific Ocean for tuna fishing, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has set the country’s fisheries production target for 2013 at 5.48 million metric ton (MMT).

(seafood.com) According to Globefish market reports the volume of world tuna catches did not grow in the first quarter of 2012.

(thehindubusinessline) Marine Products Exports Development Authority organised a national workshop to improve long-line fisheries for tuna and other large pelagic fish species.

(TheFishSite) On August 20, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) celebrated the market launch of its global, independent trademark for responsibly farmed seafood. Tilapia from Indonesia is the first farmed fish to meet the ASC's certification standard.

(TheFishSite) Despite one of the leading exporters of fish and its products, the country's inland fish production has dismayed compared to marine production during recently ended financial year 2011-12.

(vasep.com.vn) According to statistics from Vietnam Customs, in July 2012, the country totaled US$5.1 million of pangasius sales to Brazil, down nearly 26.8 percent from the same time last year. This made year-to-date earnings export equal the value of the same period of last year, reached US$34.35 million.

(seafood.com) The level of demand and consumption of fish in Germany is steadily growing, according to recent data, provided by German Fish Information Center. 



(seafood.com) Total allowable catches (TAC) for sprat, herring and plaice in the Baltic Sea can be raised, the European Commission said today (17 August), because the number of stocks managed at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) is likely increasing, and could move from three to six in 2013.

(seafood.com) While the FAO overall food price index rose 6% in July 2012, largely due to increases in grain prices due to weakening outlooks. This index does not include seafood.