Lucy Towers

US - Many West Coast vendors speculate strong inventories of Headed and Gutted sockeye salmon heading into the new year, reports Kyla Ganton in the Tradex Foods 3-Minute Market Insight.

VIETNAM - The Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has set a goal for 2017 of US$ 7.1 billion in seafood export revenue.

UK - Further action to boost sustainable fishing begins as the next phase of the discard ban for demersal species comes into force, announced Fisheries Minister George Eustice.

PHILIPPINES - The Bureau of Fisheries and the Philippine Fishports Development Authority, two agencies of government which are under the Department of Agriculture, have come up with a nationwide progr…

INDIA - Introduction of exotic vannamei shrimp into Indias coastal aquaculture system has significantly contributed to maintaining the momentum in the countrys marine product exports, according to MPE…

US - Toxic algae blooms in lakes and reservoirs are highly destructive, resulting in fish kills and toxicity risks to wildlife, livestock - and even humans. But their development is difficult to predi…

INDONESIA - The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry is to build three offshore aquaculture facilities in 2017 in a hope to produce an additional 1,500 tons of seabass annually.

GLOBAL - Over the last few weeks, researchers at the University of Lincoln in the UK announced that they have won a major new grant award, worth over 300,000, for a study that will help to improve the…

During the past 20 years, the pond culture of hybrid striped bass has developed into a successful sector of the United States aquaculture industry; annual production has grown exponentially from 10,00…

US - The start of 2017 marks the 26th year for this weekly column that targets news for and about Alaskas seafood industry. The goal is to make all readers more aware of the economic and cultural impo…

JAPAN - At the beginning of each year, the legendary Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo hosts an increasingly sad spectacle: the first auction of the season for one of the last remaining Pacific bluefin tun…

OMAN - Oman is steadily making progress to achieve high fish productivity through large scale aquaculture projects with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) considering projects worth RO70…

SRI LANKA - Many inland reservoirs which are imperative in freshwater fisheries were at risk of drying up due to the arid weather condition that prevailed island wide this year.

INDIA - Experts have recommended setting up a common gene bank for vulnerable fish species as well as setting up fish sanctuaries in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change on fish stocks.

US - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has developed a video series, designed to assist the seafood industry and federal and state regulators in better understanding specific concepts describe…

GLOBAL - As it is the Christmas holidays, The Fish Site has put together 10 fun and interesting facts that you might not know about fish.

EU - In the first quarter of 2016, purchases of mussels in the 10 largest buying countries slightly increased (+2 500 tonnes) compared with the same period in 2015. For the world's largest importers, …

GLOBAL - Meeting the Paris Agreement global warming target of 1.5C will have large benefits to fisheries, finds a new Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program study published in Science. For every degree Cels…

AUSTRALIA - ???No further prawn farms in the Logan River area have tested positive to white spot disease. The response is moving into the next phase, which will involve disposal and decontaminating th…

GLOBAL - Growth in global fish production is expected to slow slightly this year, driven primarily by lower catches of major wild species such as Alaska pollock and anchoveta, according to FAO Globefi…