Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Record low hauls of stone crabs off the coast of Florida pushing up prices and sparking a bidding wars among high-end restaurants.

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: DAN FLYNN

Big Salmon won’t harm the environment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said last Friday.

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Recent data shows 14 bacon lines in the major British supermarkets are up in price, and none are down.

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Poultry prices in Pakistan have seen a 30-40% increase in wholesale and retail markets in the last couple of days

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The intervention of President Dilma Rousseff was not enough to convince the Russian government to lift the ban on meat imports from three Brazilian states, in place for a year and a half.

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The year 2012 has been marked internally by a crisis of cost pressure in the pork industry.

Published: Dec 25, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Newfoundland and Labrador has made a deal to allow one of its largest seafood companies to ship unprocessed yellowtail flounder offshore in return for a guarantee of jobs at a fish plant.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Canada-based St. Jean’s Cannery and Smokehouse has acquired Raincoast Trading, a seafood company and the ownership is due by 1 January 2013.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

A project to identify Nile tilapia ‘super strains’ in the Philippines will help to increase the living standards of poor fish farmers and consumers.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Seafood producers in Andhra Pradesh, India are struggling to gain access to a range of markets such as the US, Japan and the EU due to a lack of infrastructure in the state.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

According to new research from Mintel on the U.S. poultry market, it just might be as sales of turkey, duck, and other specialty birds, grew a considerable 6.5% in just one year, reaching $7.1 billion (2011–12).

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Scott Simpson, John Key, and Silver Fern Farms chief executive Keith Cooper check out some of the produce at the opening of SFF’s new plant in Te Aroha.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Cargill Inc.’s animal nutrition business announced plans to invest approximately $20 million in South Africa.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Meat imports to Russia from producers using ractopamine must be tested and certified free of the feed additive, the country's veterinary regulator said.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Greg Roberts

Clean Seas Tuna is fighting for survival after failing to find a desperately needed partner for its troubled yellowtail kingfish business.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Eco-friendly fishing method was highlighted at a programme organised at Tharuvaikulam coast on Wednesday.

Published: Dec 24, 2012

Darden Restaurants reported a 37 percent drop in net earnings per share in its second quarter results, in part due to a decline in profits at the company’s Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants.

Published: Dec 21, 2012

When Barack Obama visited Indonesia in 2010, he tucked in to a steaming bowl of meatball broth, known as bakso, served to remind him of his childhood in Jakarta.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The aquaculture industry in Northern Mindanao continues to grow, registering a five percent growth in the third quarter of 2012.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Shares of Brazilian meat packers trade higher as statistics institute IBGE reports a record 8.03M head of cattle were slaughtered in 3Q, up 10% from a year earlier.