Farms to provide 70 per cent of fish
CHINA - At least 70 per cent of fish available on the Chinese market will be from farms rather than the sea within five years, agricultural officials said yesterday in Beijing. The country will highlight conservation of aquatic resources by imposing...

China carp fish growth falls
CHINA - The growth of China carp fish here in the district of Frontier province has sharply declined due to government and private sectors’ ineptitude and negligence. China carp fish is admired across the world due to its unique taste and for its...

China's Oceanus Seeks Singapore Main Board Listing
CHINA - Oceanus Bio-Tech (Holdings) Ltd., a Chinese fish farmer, Monday said it has filed its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a listing on the main board of the Singapore Exchange.

Eels health scare puts Chinese farming in spotlight
CHINA - Until 10 days ago, few people in Hong Kong had heard of an industrial dye known as malachite green. Now there are very few who have not. For Hong Kong, the startling discovery of the potentially carcinogenic chemical in eels and fish imported...

Cancer agent found in Chinese eel
CHINA - The carcinogenic industrial dye Malachite Green has been found in live eels and eel products recently imported from China. The National Fisheries Product Quality Inspection Service said Sunday tests on 25 shipments of live eels imported...

Brazil wants a partnership with China in fishing
CHINA - Building on understandings reached last year at the Expo Brasil-China, minister Jose Fritsch, head of the Secretariat of Fishing and Aquaculture has met with a delegation from the municipality of Weihai, which produces two million tons of fish...

China Conference Looks At Food Safety
CHINA - With China’s meat industry growing in a booming economy, food safety is the major problem facing processors. Chris Harris reports from the China International Meat Industry Conference in Beijing. The Chinese meat industry is growing...

China: massive opportunities for food makers and ingredients firms
CHINA - Underlining the massive potential that exists for food makers and ingredients players in China, new data reveals only about 30 per cent of food in China is processed, compared to 80 per cent in western nations, reports Lindsey Partos. China,...

Asia heads for over-fishing crisis as demand just keeps growing
ASIA - Although Japan will remain the biggest fish consumer on a per capita basis, China - with a projected population of 1.4 billion - will take by far the biggest amount of fish by 2010, an estimated 28.4 million tonnes. Can wild fisheries and aquaculture...

World fisheries beware: China is coming
CHINA - China is fast becoming a formidable sea power of the other marine variety. It doesn't yet have monstrous aircraft carriers capable of delivering awesome fire power in the world's seven seas, but there is a huge fleet of small fishing trawlers...

2004 an eventful year for the Chinese shrimp industry
CHINA - There is no doubt that the major focus of the seafood industry in China during 2004 was shrimp. The US anti-dumping action relating to shrimp imports from China and other countries was a key issue for both the Chinese government and industry....

China's Zhejiang Province Hit by US Shrimp Duty Decision
CHINA - The southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang has suffered severe losses from US anti-dumping tariffs on shrimps. It has had to turn to other regions as an outlet for its exports.

China Agriculture Group Unhappy with US Shrimp Tariff Decision
CHINA - A business interest group representing China's agricultural industry is unhappy with the US ruling this week that Chinese shrimp producers are guilty of dumping in the US market.

China to promote healthy shrimp farming modes
CHINA - China will actively promote the healthy, safe and environmentally-friendly shrimp farming methods to ensure the sustainable development of the sector, said a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Agriculture here Monday.

Relief for glucosamine price pressure
CHINA - Chinese producers of glucosamine predict that prices, which have almost tripled this year, will peak early next year, before falling, as a knock-on benefit from recent changes to the shrimp-meat market, writes Dominique Patton.