Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has visited Arranmore Island, off the west coast of County Donegal, on a fact-finding mission and to discuss the importance of fishing for remote Island Communities with local fishermen.
Jungle perch could soon be making a comeback in Queensland waters with the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) receiving A$483,000 in funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation to accelerate fingerling production.
Independent DNA testing on randomly selected MSC-labelled products shows that the MSC traceability certification requirements continue to deliver a very high degree of consumer assurance.
Poland is embarking on a major new campaign to promote beef to the domestic market in an attempt to boost the quality end of the market and reverse the spiralling decline in consumption.
New Zealand-based international bank, ANZ Banking Group (ANZ Group), has said it will help fund investment for the development of beef cattle in the eastern part of Indonesia.
Danish Crown is to build a new slaughter processing plant in Holsted, Denmark that it is claimed will be the largest investment so far in the European beef slaughter sector.
China Yurun Food Group Ltd has said that its founder Zhu Yicai has resigned as chairman with immediate effect. He will now become an honorary chairman and a senior advisor.
Chinese authorities are clamping down on smuggling of New Zealand beef and other meats into the country – although the mainstream New Zealand beef industry says it has little to worry about.
Officials with West Liberty Foods, L.L.C. announced its Mount Pleasant, Iowa meat-processing plant has earned the designation of operating a “landfill-free” facility by eliminating more than 2 million lbs. of waste that previously was deposited in a local
US Poultry & Egg Association joined 16 other agricultural organizations in submitting a letter to Congress in response to the recent Consumers Union report on the use of antibiotics in poultry and livestock production.
NAMA is partnering with 11 other meat industry organizations, FSIS and the Beef Industry Food Safety Council (BIFSCo) to host the NAMA Conference on Prevention of Shiga-Toxin Producing E. coli (STEC) for Beef Further Processors Oct. 2-3 in Chicago.
French poultry firm Doux, which entered into administration in June 2012 putting the livelihood of over 3,400 workers and 800 farmers at risk, has received 11 takeover bids.
Fishermen say alarm bells are ringing after the fleet managed only 60 per cent of its coral trout quota this season.It's the jewel in the crown of Queensland's seafood industry.
Ever since oil exploration started in Ghana on the Jubilee Fields at Cape Three Points of the Western Region(Province), fishermen have been banned from fishing close to the oil rigs.
Tanzania territorial waters are safe and illegal fishing in the country's deep sea area has successfully been contained, the National Assembly was told.
The new season’s first herring and mackerel landing of around 400 tonnes was expected at Vopnafjördur, accoding to HB Grandi, one of the largest Icelandic fishing companies.
