Vietnam was estimated to have earned $1.03 billion worth of shrimp export in the first half of this year, up 1.5% on year, the Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said.
The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) is praising the efforts of the Indonesian fishing industry and government commitment to open a sustainable pole-and-line and hand-line tuna fishery.
A private investment group has made a NOK 6.2 billion (USD 1.1 billion, EUR 811.8 million) offer for Ewos, a subsidiary of Norwegian fish farming company Cermaq.
One of Smithfield’s fund investors, holding Smithfield’s 5.7% shares, hope the company implement spin-off, instead of selling company to Chinese pork producer Shuanghui International.
Nutreco announced this week that the company has finished acquiring 75 percent of the shares in Gisis, a shrimp and fish feed subsidiary of the Expalsa group in Ecuador, at a cost of EUR 81 million.
A challenging year in hog production due to a weak export market was in part to blame for a 49% decline in fiscal 2013 earnings at Smithfield Foods, Inc.
My Family has started buying Shuanghui products again after the largest Chinese pork producer announced a bid to acquire US pork giant Smithfield two weeks ago.
Seafood products displayed at a food and catering fair in Beijing. The crackdown on graft and extravagance is taking its toll on the country's high-end seafood market.
U.S. wholesale egg prices increased a record 41.6 percent in May, driven by an avian flu outbreak in Mexico that boosted U.S. egg exports to that country.
Willie Van Solkema confirmed the former XL Foods Lakeside beef processing facility is operating at full capacity following the 2012 E. coli-related recall of millions of beef from that facility.
Local officials are causing China to grossly over-report its aquaculture output, according to a respected local academic investigating the country’s agricultural statistics.
According to the Industry and Trade Department of Ca Mau five seafood companies have their 159 tons of exports refused by May 2013, worth $3.65 million tons.
