Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) officials are very concerned after Walmart to purchase only wild salmon that is MSC-certified or that is from a fishery in Fishery Improvement Project (FIP).
China Fishery Group Ltd said on Thursday it intends to start arbitration proceedings against Veramar Azul in Peru over the latter's failure to transfer a call option that will let the Singapore-listed firm raise its stake in Copeinca ASA.
San Francisco-based Global Fresh Foods today made good on its promise to send non-frozen fish products overseas, shipping salmon from Chile to Japan for the first time.
Commercial hatcheries set 202 million eggs in incubators during the week ending June 22, 2013, an increase of 3 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year ago.
U.S. lawmakers will examine the proposed purchase of Smithfield Foods (SFD.N) by Shuanghui International of China at a hearing in July, Debbie Stabenow, the head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said on Thursday.
While feed price has seen a continuous rise in the last six months, price of poultry and pork has fallen by 40-46 percent compared to the beginning of the year.
Prices on Gulf of Mexico brown shrimp are rising after overseas shrimp producers report problems with disease and the U.S. government set preliminary countervailing duty (CVD) rates for shrimp imports.
Both exporters and Marine Products Export Development Authority functionaries hope that the Department of Commerce will scale down the duty during the final determination, expected early September.
Northern Beef Packers was fined $7,315 for after wastewater from one of the company's lagoons discharged into Moccasin Creek in April, according to local news reports.
China, Russia and Japan recently banned imports of poultry raised in Arkansas after breeder chickens tested positive for the H7N7 virus at a farm in Scott County, Ark.
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. has transformed its food products business over the past several years, and the move has set the company up to achieve margin growth in the near future.
Seafood producer Slade Gorton Co. and Framingham, Mass.-based Elevation Brands are partnering to produce gluten-, dairy- and soy-free seafood for food service.
Higher production and export of shrimp and chilled items drove India's marine products export to an all-time high of Rs 18,856 crore ($3,511.67 million) in 2012-13, rising 7.68% in quantity compared to the previous year.
