Published: Dec 05, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Tight supplies from both Australia and the US kept imported frozen beef prices firm in the Japanese wholesale market during November, while demand from end-users remained relatively slow.

Published: Dec 05, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The aroma is reminiscent of roasted nuts, mushy peas and starchy vegetables, while the complex flavors include “sweet ocean,” “egg white” and “buttery.”

Published: Dec 04, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The government of Nigeria is planning to impose ban on the import of fish products.

Published: Dec 04, 2012

Community Futures Fraser Fort George, through the Beyond the Market project, has launched the Beef Value Chain Initiative to give ranchers in the Highway 16 region more opportunity to showcase their quality beef in the marketplace.

Published: Dec 04, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Following several years of drought, government intervention and herd liquidation, Argentinean beef exports continue to fall, with exports for the first ten months of 2012 down 21% year-on-year, at 101,514 tonnes swt – the lowest total for the past ten yea

Published: Dec 04, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Chinese beef imports during October surged 360% year-on-year, to 7,726 tonnes swt (Global Trade Atlas/ China Customs).

Published: Dec 04, 2012 By: Foodmate team

In Japan, the health benefits of salmon are being stressed in the media during the autumn salmon season.

Published: Dec 04, 2012 By: Christine Blank

Seafood is being featured much more significantly in U.K. restaurants, and experts expect that trend to continue in 2013.

Published: Dec 03, 2012

Breizon Limited, a well established Irish seafood company based in Connemara, with assistance from BIM’s Collective Route to Market Scheme, has successfully established a joint venture company with two French partners in Lorient, France.

Published: Dec 03, 2012

Russia has lifted its nearly 18-month trade embargo on beef, pork and poultry exports from three Brazilian states, but stipulations still exist for shipments to be green-lit, Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture announced Last Wednesday.

Published: Dec 03, 2012 By: Lauren Kramer

At the end of the day, if a seafood buyer can’t get the product he or she needs, then it’s time to consider other species or other proteins (gasp!) to put on the menu.

Published: Nov 30, 2012

The Food Standards Agency has today removed all remaining Chernobyl sheep control legislation in Wales. The controls had been put in place due to raised levels of radioactivity, following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.

Published: Nov 30, 2012

Philippines has lifted the temporary ban on the importation of poultry and other poultry from Taiwan after global animal health authorities confirmed that the country is free of the bird flu virus.

Published: Nov 30, 2012

Russia meat producer Cherkizovo has booked an increase in nine-months earnings but warned of a "risk of pressure on pork prices" going into the fourth quarter.

Published: Nov 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Dutch food giant Vion’s plans to sell its UK food businesses − throwing into doubt the future of its 13,000 UK employees − was “almost an inevitability,” according to leading City analysts.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Companies in the eight Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have been urged to follow Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) principles for its skipjack tuna fishery by a Dutch seafood supplier, writes Lucy Towers.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations announced plans to invest $3 million to develop poultry farming in Equatorial Guinea.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Butter, turkey, fruit, vegetable and red meat stocks on Oct. 31, 2012, were higher than year-earlier levels, but chicken and cheese stocks were lower, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Cold Storage report.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, recently announced a two-year extension of the ban on all large fishing trawlers in Australian waters. This comes as a blow to large commercial fishing enterprises contemplating development of Australian sea-based

Published: Nov 28, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Seafood Development Agency continued with their series of Innovation workshops with a practical industry-focused workshop entitled "Introduction to fish smoking technologies" at BIM's Seafood Development Centre, Clonakilty,