(arkansasnews.com) An Arkansas farmer is featured in a new national ad campaign intended to bolster the nation’s struggling catfish industry.

(NASS-USDA) Farm-raised catfish processed during June 2012 totaled 23.9 million pounds round weight, down 2 percent from June 2011. The average price paid to producers was 93.4 cents per pound for June 2012, down 10.4 cents from last month and 29.7 cents below a year ago.

(foodqualitynews.com) A new European Commission report has highlighted how control measures are mitigating food safety risks. The report reveals how the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has ensured food safety by averting or mitigating many safety risks “by triggering a rapid reaction when a food safety risk is detected.”

(vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2012, Vietnam cephalopod exports to Japan grew impressively. In January 2012, exports to the market reduced slightly by 0.2 percent and 6 following months exports grew by 50 – 155 percent, exports in February grew sharply by 157.8 percent over 2011.

(fis.com) Pakistani fish exports surpassed USD 300 million for the first time and fetched a higher average unit price (AUP) in fiscal year 2011-12 versus 2010-11.

(IntraFish) US scallops prices are up in comparison to 2009 but are not as high as they were last year, largely due to higher supply coming out of Japan.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first six months of 2012, out of main exported seafood products from Vietnam, exports of tuna products witnessed the highest year-on-year growth of 38.5 percent although tuna only made up 10 percent of total export value.

(EuroAlert) The Fisheries Committee at the European Parliament highlighted during a vote celebrated July 11th that failing to manage EU stocks sustainably means that 75% of them are overfished, costing the EU about €1.8 billion a year.

(SeafoodSource) With European cod stocks at unprecedented levels and quotas set to soar over the next few years, there’s heavy pressure on exporters to find new markets for the additional fish or see prices slide further toward unprofitability. In traditional cod markets, however, it’s the producers of other whitefish products that should expect to lose the most ground.

(seafood.com) Prices of tilapia in the US continue to trend downwards as a record surge of US imports continues to flood the market.

(TheFishSite) GLOBAL - Fifteen countries and territories and their development partners met in Noumea last month for a joint Secretariat of the Pacific Community/Food and Agriculture Organisation workshop to discuss how climate change will affect Pacific fisheries and aquaculture.

(Arirang News) Korea has flat-out rejected Japan's demand to restrict the catching of bluefin tuna.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first four months of 2012, Thailand squid exporters faced lack of raw material because domestic catch volume failed to meet the demand.

(Courthouse News) The National Marine Fisheries Service will allow the U.S. longline bluefin tuna fleet to land just over 76 metric tons of the prized tuna in 2012. The increase in the 2012 quota is due to underharvest in 2011.

(fis.com) The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Davao region has called on stakeholders to actively participate in the promotion of pangasius fish as a family staple.