High-Tech Farm Raises Fish in Deep Sea
CHINA - Thanks to new engineering and undersea cultivation skills, fish farmers are raising seafood in the middle of the sea. Because fish in offshore fish farms grow in near-natural environments, their rate of survival is higher and they taste almost...

Sea cucumber boom threatens stock
CHINA - The price of domestic sea cucumbers is soaring due to rising exports to China, where the popularity of the delicacy is growing.

Branded turbot fish to reappear in market
SHANGHAI - A report released by the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to specific brands of turbot fish in the city's market for the coming Spring Festival, Shanghai Labor Daily reported today.

Dalian to return sea to its fishermen
CHINA - A bid by the local legislature to open up access to the city's sea resources has received strong public support in this port city-Dalian in Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Hong Kongers wary of dye-contaminated mainland fish
CHINA - Fish vendors in south China's Guangdong Province are struggling to sell fresh-water fish to Hong Kong where authorities are concerned about malachite green, a synthetic dye used to treat fungal infections on fish eggs and which is considered dangerous...

Shanghai City to build eco-aquaculture bases
CHINA - Shanghai has launched the construction of five standard ecological aquaculture bases, as a means to transform its traditional aquaculture model. A 20,000-mu ecological aquaculture area will be completed during the 11th five-year-plan period, authorities...

Shandong Turbot farmers in crisis following sales slump
CHINA - Many Chinese turbot fish farmers are on the verge of bankruptcy, a month after several cancer causing chemicals were found in their products, reports Lu Yuying on CCTV News.

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries Build New Processing Plant
CHINA - HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc., a leader in toxin-free integrated aquaculture and aquatic product processing, today broke ground on an organic feed mill and processing plant in Hainan, China, with members of the business and financial...

China seafood expo grows as South Korean show struggles
CHINA - Like most of the rest of the seafood-producing world, Alaska's leading fishmongers flocked to the China Fisheries and Seafood Exposition Nov. 1-3, but then all ignored the Busan International Seafood and Fisheries Exposition in South Korea less...

Food safety tops the menu
CHINA - China's watchdog for aquatic product safety will launch a nationwide inspection targeting forbidden chemicals in the fish market, the vice-director of the fisheries bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture announced Monday.

Turbot trouble for consumers
CHINA - The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) yesterday found malachite green, a cancer-causing substance, in two samples of turbot.

Shandong bans sales of contaminated fish
CHINA - East China's Shandong Province has banned the sales of turbot containing excessive amounts of carcinogens that were purposefully fed banned chemicals by fish farmers.

E. China province bans sales of contaminated fish
CHINA - East China's Shandong Province has banned the sales of turbot containing excessive amounts of carcinogens that were purposefully fed banned chemicals by fish farmers.

China Fishmeal Weekly
CHINA - In this weeks China Piglet Weekly, eFeedLink report that Domestic prices were mostly range-bound, except in some regions where marginal falls were registered amid weak demand and lower external prices.

China: a victim of trade wars?
CHINA - If the Chinese government gives in to mounting international pressure to revalue its currency, it could spell the end of cheap exports, a move that many anticipate would have a knock-on effect on raw materials costs for the food industry. But...