WWF Believe Atlantic Bluefin Trade Ban Is Vital
BRAZIL - The Atlantic tuna commission has come up with only inadequate or delayed actions to ensure the recovery of the eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna, the global...

Brazil Exports Technology for Shrimp Farming
BRAZIL - A Brazilian experience of shrimp farming is to be replicated in Cape Verde based on a partnership, an official from Brazilian fisheries sector company,...

Gomes da Costa Sells Tuna to Iraq
BRAZIL - Brazilian company Gomes da Costa, the leader in the fishery market in Latin America, sold 300,000 cans of tuna to Iraq for the value of US$ 250,000.

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...

Brazil Reports Listed Shrimp Disease
BRAZIL - The veterinary authority has reported the discovery of infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus to the World Organisation for Animal Health...

Fish Week: Big Promotion for Brazilian Consumption
BRAZIL - It is already becoming tradition. For the sixth consecutive year, Abras (Brazilian Association of Supermarkets) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture...

Brazil's New Fisheries Ministry Shows Commitment
BRAZIL - Brazilian president Lula da Silva sanctioned last week the bill which confers the Special Secretariat of Aquaculture and Fisheries, SEAP, the status of...

Brazil Markets Freshwater Fish to Arabs
BRAZIL - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are in the list of future clients of Nativ Pescados, a fishery company based in the state of Mato ...

FAO Collaborates on Brazilian Aquaculture Census
BRAZIL - Authorities of the Special Secretariat of Aquaculture and Fisheries (SEAP), of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and of...

Government to the Rescue of Flooded Fish Farmers
BRAZIL - Fish farmers from the northeast region of Brazil will receive BRL 100 million (USD 48.4 million) to finance the economic repercussions of the recent...

Aquaculture Project: Brazilian Aid to Gaza Strip
BRAZIL – A Brazilian mission to help rebuild the Gaza strip through aquaculture education and implementation has arrived in Ramallah, Palestine.

First Commercial Cobia Project in Brazil
BRAZIL - The Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced the opening of the country's first center of commercial cultivation for cobia (rachicentrum...

Brazil Joins World on Sustainable Fishing
BRAZIL - The Brazilian government openly backed the Compliance Agreement of the United Nation's (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which aims to promote...

Brazilian Imports of Arab Sardines Rise 73 Per Cent
BRAZIL - The Brazilian market imported 5,800 tonnes of sardines from Morocco in January this year. The Arab country produced one million tonnes of fisheries last...

New Sustainable Fish Feed to Save the Oceans
BRAZIL - A university and a non-GMO soybean company have developed a sustainable alternative for farmed fish feeding.

Brazil to Become Fish Exporter
BRAZIL - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday his country will soon be self-sufficient in the production of seafood, and will later become...

Brazil's Hard Work Pays Off in Dubai
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - Netuno, headquartered in Recife, bet on the purchase potential of the emirate two years ago and hired an exclusive trader for that market, generating...

Saving the Amazon with Aquaculture
BRAZIL - Brazil's Sustainable Amazon Plan has helped researchers pinpoint aquaculture as a resource of huge potential to help the area flourish both economically...

Booming Brazilian Fisheries Sector
BRAZIL - The consumption and sales of fisheries is growing around 15 per cent a year in Brazil. The target is to increase the production from 1.05 million tonnes...

Discovery of Thorny Catfish in Brazil
BRAZIL - A new species of thorny catfish in the genus Platydoras has been described from northeastern Brazil.

Shedding Light on the Dusky Grouper
BRAZIL - A new study has been launched off the Brazilian coast which aims to gain greater understanding of the little-known dusky grouper.

Brazil Creates Ministry of Fisheries
BRAZIL - Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill to create a Ministry of Fisheries and the government has announced it will invest $1 billion...

Award for Best Presentation
Ann Cecilie Hansen from the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) received an award for the best PhD-student presentation at a large fish...

New Species of Catfish Discovered
BRAZIL - Brazilian scientists have found two new species of catfish which are described in the latest issue of the journal Neotropical Ichthyology.

Shrimp Exports Rise
BRAZIL - A sharp rise in shrimp exports from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte has helped to boost exports by 8.5 per cent in the first two months of this...