Automated Slaughter Line For Salmon
NORWAY - Automatic bleeding based on machine vision and robot technology: Norway is now operating the first salmon slaughter line in the world to use such techniques....

Yellow Perch Products And Online Ordering Launched
US - Bell Aquaculture, owner and operator of US yellow perch (Perca flavescens) farm, is rolling out its breaded yellow perch line and launching the Bell Perch Online...

Catfish Processing Increases
US - Farm-raised catfish processed during December 2009 totaled 33.8 million pounds round weight, up three per cent from December 2008. The average price paid to...

CP Foods To Focus On Overseas Operations, Exports
THAILAND - Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF) has reported its nine-month net profit of 8,080 million baht (THB).

HSA Opens Welfare Award Nominations
UK - The Humane Slaughter Assocation (HSA) is calling for nominations for its award relating to significant advances in humane slaughter of farmed livestock.

New Rules Regarding Oyster Harvesting
US - No sooner have federal regulators backed off a plan to ban raw oyster sales during summer months that Gulf of Mexico oyster harvesters and processors now face...

Caviar Quality Highlighted
ISRAEL - Karat Russian Osetra, also referred to as Golani Osetra produced from the Russian Sturgeon in Galilee is currently the leading caviar of the world.

Shelling Out The Warnings
US - Since 2005, companies that process shellfish in Bay, Franklin and Gulf counties have been sent nearly 80 letters from the state warning that they were in violation...

Tyson Clashes With FDA Over 'Serious Violations'
US - Tyson Foods has challenged an Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-assessment that one of its Texas food processing plants had committed “serious violations”...

Canned Fish Factory To Open
SRI LANKA - Construction has begun on a canned fish factory in Akmeemana.

Grimsby Smoked Fish Nets EU Approval
UK - Traditional Grimsby Smoked Fish is the latest UK product to be recognised under the EU Regionally Protected Food Names scheme for its quality and regional ...

CP Sees Profits Soar
THAILAND - South East Asian meat and fish processing company, Charoen Pokphand Foods, has posted profits of Baht 8,080 million for the first nine months of the year...

China to Invest in Halal Fish Processing in Brunei
BRUNEI - A joint venture (JV) between Bruneian and Chinese companies, will establish a halal fish-processing facility in the Sultanate once the newly-formed company...

Catfish Farming Co Promotes Farming
US - Harvest Select Catfish has initiated a campaign to promote the industry and employment opportunities nationwide.

HQ Sustainable Receives Certification for Tilapia
US - HQ Sustainable Maritime says it is the first company in its sector to receive Globalgap Standard Certification for its tilapia.

Catfish Processing Down Seven Per Cent
US - Farm-raised catfish processed during September 2009 totalled 36.4 million pounds round weight, down seven per cent from September 2008.

Marine Harvest Publishes Preliminary Q3 Results
GLOBAL - Marine Harvest produced 80,000 tonnes of head-on gutted (HOG) equivalents in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009.

Leading Prawn Company to Open Sales Office in Dubai
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - National Prawn Company to open regional sales office in Dubai.

Marine Harvest Plans Residential Fish Farms
SCOTLAND, UK - Salmon producer, Marine Harvest, is planning to create a number of offshore fish farms in the Western Isles workers would actually live.

Multiexport Plans to Expand Production
CHILE - Salmon producer, Multiexport, has presented the Environmental Impact Declaration (DIA) for a US$ 1.5 million project to enlarge its concessions nearby the...

Seafood Processors Gain from Provincial Funding
NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA - The province's seafood industry is improving its competitiveness in the global marketplace with funding from the province.

Pâté and Canned Fillets from Tilapia
BRAZIL - Researchers from the Brazilian Organization for Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA) Agro-industry of Foods and the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro...

China a Promising Market for Food Safety Products?
CHINA - China’s demand for food safety products is forecast to grow 15 per cent per annum through 2013 to 13 billion yuan (US $2 billion), according to a new 252-page...

Mixed Fortunes Reported by Marine Farms
GLOBAL - Sea lice attacks on the company's salmon farms in Scotland have cost Lakeland an estimated Ł2 million. Another Marine Farms subsidiary in Belize has successfully...

QL Resources Opens Surimi Plant In Indonesia
INDONESIA - QL Resources Bhd of Malaysia is to set up a fish paste processing plant in Surabaya, Indonesia.