Published: Apr 23, 2013

Mexico has decided to stop importing shrimps in all forms from China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Published: Apr 23, 2013

Icicle Seafoods on Friday announced it has decided to close it operations in Adak in the Aleutian Islands, citing concerns about the short- and long-term health of the region’s Pacific cod resource and increased regulatory uncertainty.

Published: Apr 23, 2013

Maruha Nichiro Seafoods recently announced the company had purchased a controlling interest in Seafood Connection Holding of the Netherlands.

Published: Apr 23, 2013

The States is stepping up its demands for easier access to the European pigmeat market.

Published: Apr 23, 2013

he State of Iowa and a subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Nippon Meat Packers Inc., have reached a settlement resolving a dispute over the constitutionality of Iowa’s ban against processors vertically integrating into pork production in the state.

Published: Apr 23, 2013

Stock Watch on American meat and poultry companies' stocks.

Published: Apr 22, 2013 By: News Editor

The wholesale prices of imported frozen shrimp are soaring by a large margin in Japan as supply decreased drastically in the wake of the spread of infectious disease — early mortality syndrome — in the farming ponds in the Southeast Asian countries since

Published: Apr 22, 2013

Production of the Scottish farmed “Label Rouge” salmon increased by seven per cent between 2011 and 2012.

Published: Apr 22, 2013

The board of directors of Marine Harvest have put forward a proposal for a NOK 0.10 per share extraordinary dividend to the 2013 Annual General Meeting.

Published: Apr 22, 2013

The overall value of fish landed by Scottish vessels in 2012 is down compared to 2011, but better than the values recorded in the previous decade.

Published: Apr 22, 2013

In the UK, McDonald’s will switch to 100% British Freedom Food Labelled Pork for all UK restaurants. This means that it will use pork which is produced under strict animal welfare criteria.

Published: Apr 22, 2013

Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc. invested $5.5 million in new equipment technology in its Hazleton, Pa., case ready meat packaging plant to increase efficiency and improve product quality and ergonomics for workers.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

The company building a new abattoir south of Darwin says a surge in Australian beef shipments to China will be good for business in the Northern Territory.

Published: Apr 19, 2013 By: News Editor

Brazil's beef exports jumped 25 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the same period a year earlier, thanks to a more favorable exchange rate and increased demand abroad, the head of the country's main beef industry group said on Friday.

Published: Apr 19, 2013 By: News Editor

The ramifications from the failed attempt, almost five years ago, by Argentina's leftist president, Cristina Fernandéz de Kirchner, to raise export taxes on soyabeans, sunflower, wheat and maize are still impacting on the country's agricultural sector.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

A new report from Research and Markets expects India's aquaculture feed market to grow between now and 2015 by around 20 per cent.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

Environmental activist group Greenpeace has named Canada’s leading consumer canned tuna company the worst among 14 companies when it comes to providing sustainable tuna to Canadian consumers.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

Bluefin tuna producer Umami Sustainable Seafood said it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operations.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

Brazil's beef exports jumped 25 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the same period a year earlier.

Published: Apr 19, 2013

The Brazilian Anti-trust Authority (CADE) unanimously approved all 12 operations made by JBS SA between 2009 and 2012, which were submitted to the anti-trust authority for analysis.