WWF has congratulated Tasmanian salmon producer Tassal and its staff for becoming the first Australian producer of farmed seafood to achieve gold standard Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification.
A record 14 meat exporters are attending this week the Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) exhibition in Singapore on the EBLEX-BPEX pavilion as part of the strongest ever UK delegation to this important gateway to Asian markets.
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced that the Grupo Regal line-caught hake fishery has been certified to the MSC standard for sustainable, well-managed fisheries following an independent full assessment.
Dani has been approved as Friend of the Sea (FOS) certified for Chilean mussels (Mytilis chilensis) farmed by Pesquera Catalunya in the Southeast Pacific.
Green Seafoods’s mussel processing plant in Newfoundland, Canada, has earned Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced.
China's WH Group Ltd, the world's largest pork processor, is seeking to raise as much as $4.3 billion through the issuing of new shares in its upcoming Hong Kong initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said.
Brazil's BRF, the world's leading poultry exporter, said on Wednesday that it had raised its stake in Abu Dhabi's Federal Foods with a $27.8 million investment meant to expand its international reach.
Chinese meat processing capacity continues to expand apace with the latest announcement of a new 50,000-head beef lot and slaughtering plant in the mid-sized city of Xiangyang in the central province of Hubei.
The high anti-dumping tariffs imposed by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) after the eighth periodic administration of review (PRO8) for Vietnam’s shrimp products have obviously put Vietnamese exporters at a disadvantage.
Newly released data from one of China’s leading seafood exporting regions shows Chinese exporters have been struggle to build on sales in new emerging markets, particularly in Africa.
Peru-based scallop producer, AcuaPesca Group, is the first company in the world to enter assessment against the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Bivalve Standard.
The Irish seafood sector has the potential to increase sales to €1 billion and deliver 1,200 additional jobs by 2017, according to a Bord Iascaigh Mhara (the Irish seafood industry development board).
Independent DNA analysis of products bearing the sustainability label from Friend of the Sea has confirmed the species tested match their respective labels.
