The Philippines provincial fishery office is closely monitoring possible incidents of fish kill in the province due to higher temperature during the last few days.
On Tuesday 7 May at Seafood Expo Global, the Russian Federation Barents Sea cod and haddock fishery celebrated their Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
Kermarée and Vilsund Blue were awarded the top prizes in the 14th annual Seafood Prix d’Elite new products competition at Seafood Expo Global, the world’s largest and most prestigious seafood event.
Hillshire Brands Co on Tuesday reported better-than-expected quarterly sales after raising prices to offset higher costs for the pork and beef used to make its Ball Park hot dogs and Jimmy Dean sausage.
The Norwegian government is following other examples in seeking a national seafood sustainability certification program, competing with private international organizations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
Sanford Limited has reached conditional agreement for the purchase of the Coromandel, NZ based business assets of Greenshell NZ Limited and Greenshell Investments Limited with the companies’ receivers, KordaMentha.
Singapore sovereign wealth fund, Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), has invested PHP3.4bn ($76.2m) in Century Canning Corp (CCC), parent company of soon-to-be-listed Century Pacific Food (CNPF).
The WH Group, the parent company of Smithfield Foods and the Chinese pig meat processor Shuaghui, has stopped the flotation of the company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
At next month’s Cereals, HGCA will have a special exhibit focusing on the importance of animal feed which is the single largest end use from UK arable farms.
In order to develop agriculture infrastructure in the country, India has set aside US$9.2 billion to develop integrated schemes for agricultural marketing in the 12th plan period (2012-2017).
Fewer pigs, cattle and poultry were slaughtered in the first quarter and milk collection also dropped slightly, according to the Czech Statistical Office (CSO).
France has announced a ban on imports of live pigs and other pig products from the US, Canada, Mexico and Japan, in order to guard against Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED).
The longstanding effort to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve standards for organic seafood production took a major setback this week during a National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in San Antonio.
