Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka and Viet Nam have focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment at the third Joint Commission Meeting of Sri Lanka and Viet Nam held in Hanoi.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene its Reef Fish Advisory Panel 6 - 7 August, 2012. The meeting will be held at the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 2203 N. Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, in Tampa, Florida.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has begun collecting and testing wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia to determine the status of three salmon diseases: infectious haematopoietic necrosis, infectious pancreatic necrosis and infectious salmon a
Investigations by fishery officers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada have resulted in the convictions of four commercial harvesters who misreported their shrimp catches, leading to significant court-imposed fines totaling more than C$35,000.
Recently, an emerging disease known as early mortality syndrome (EMS) in shrimp (also termed acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome or AHPNS) has been reported to cause significant losses among shrimp farmers in China, Viet Nam, Malaysia and the eastern
The International Poultry Council (IPC) has joined the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and other entities in an initiative to strengthen environmental benchmarking of livestock supply chains.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire the commercial egg operations of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. The assets include two production complexes near Pittsburg, Texas, with capacity for 1.4 million laying hens.
The Russian Union of Poultry Producers (Rosptitsesoyuz) has sent a request to the government demanding that it restricts poultry imports from Belarus, which it claims has violated trade agreements.
The US meat industry has welcomed an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision not to introduce laws that would require intensive farms to provide detailed information on their operations.
The European Commission has approved the takeover of a new Danish meat supply co-operative Daka by Germany-based SARIA Bio-Industries and Denmark-based Danish Crown.
Sausage skin giant Devro is on track to report £20M pre-tax profit when it posts first half results at the end of July, predicts broker Investec – despite warnings of a crisis in the Scottish meat products industry.
