Published: May 30, 2014

Tyson Foods Inc has offered to buy Hillshire Brands Co for $6.3 billion, upstaging Pilgrim's Pride Corp 's offer for the sausage company earlier in the week, in a deal that would broaden Tyson's supermarket food offerings.

Published: May 29, 2014

Peruvian aquaculture exports amounted to $ 89.4 million during the first quarter of this year, representing an increase of 62 per cent over the same period in 2013, according to the Association of Exporters (ADEX).

Published: May 29, 2014

The Japanese government has expressed its preparedness to partner Ghana to deal with challenges confronting its fisheries sector.

Published: May 29, 2014

Mexico exports of pork topped 86,294 tons, which implies an increase of three per cent compared with 84,090 tons that were placed on the market during 2012.

Published: May 29, 2014

Sanford has reported a 17 percent drop in first-half profit, driven by lower prices for pelagic species such as skipjack tuna and blue mackerel.

Published: May 29, 2014

China’s six-month trade ban on U.S. West Coast shellfish ended this week, and a leading geoduck producer expects shipments of the large and lucrative clam species to resume by early June.

Published: May 29, 2014

Maple Leaf Foods plans to idle its Brandon pork processing plant one day per month for the next five months, according to Canadian news reports.

Published: May 28, 2014

Shellfish farmers welcomed China's recent lifting of a ban of live shellfish from the US West Coast, a move that could signal pickup in trade and creation of job opportunities.

Published: May 28, 2014

With the seafood industry finding itself in troubled waters due to a variety of reasons, the exporters and trawler operators are baying for a bailout package from the new government at the Centre.

Published: May 28, 2014

Danish firm BioMar has announced it will invest more than EUR 50 million (USD 68.2 million) in a new production line that will expand the company's capacity in Norway by 30 percent.

Published: May 28, 2014

Little more than one difficult year after its problems began, Spanish seafood giant Pescanova has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings.

Published: May 28, 2014

Blumar USA and Platina Seafood USA are the newest members of the National Fisheries Institute’s Salmon Council.

Published: May 28, 2014

China’s leading tilapia processor is in bullish mood as it builds major new processing capacity and a new fish feed plant — part of a company plan to reduce costs through benefits of scale.

Published: May 27, 2014

The Federal Government will spend more than 250 million pesos this year in actions and programmes that will help to revive, in the short term, fisheries and aquaculture production in Veracruz

Published: May 27, 2014

Volatile is one way to describe the pork market in South Korea, according to Jihae Yang, Director, US Meat Export Federation-South Korea.

Published: May 27, 2014

Great progress is being made in The Netherlands towards its declared aim of reducing the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry production

Published: May 27, 2014

Russia has forbidden the supply of all pork products from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.

Published: May 27, 2014

A proposed new rule by the UK's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affaris (Defra), which would have made it necessary for UK-based abattoirs to increase currents for stunning chickens, has been revoked at the last moment.

Published: May 27, 2014

Dutch meat processor the Vion Food Group has announced that it is to close a facility in the German city of Weiden.

Published: May 27, 2014

Fishing boats set out Monday in good weather to haul in bluefin tuna here on the first day of a shortened Mediterranean bluefin fishing season.