RFID to Track Fish Breeding
THAILAND - Fishery researchers in Thailand are looking at an RFID system to track the broodstock of several fish species which are key to the country’s export business.

Clams and Fish Released Near Phuket
THAILAND - Villagers from Chalong and Erawan Group staff have released more than 1,000 rare marine creatures into Chalong Bay.

Processors Set Own Pricing Programme
THAILAND - Seafood processors in Thailand have hit back at a recent shrimp-pledging programme by the Commerce Ministry by setting their own weekly shrimp benchmark prices.

Thai Shrimp Farmers Threaten Road Block in Protest
THAILAND - Shrimp farmers in six southern provinces are threatening a protest including blocking a major roadway unless the government is able to provide measures to address the shrimp price slump.

Sustainable Tuna Champions Awarded
THAILAND - Hagen Stehr of Clean Seas and Vito Gulli of Generale Conserve are the winners the first edition of the sustainable seafood award

Organic Shrimp Certification Starts
THAILAND - An organic certification standard is being introduced to Thailand's shrimp industry. A move which hopes to secure the country's supremacy as the world's leading premium-grade shrimp producer.

US Lose Anti-Dumping Battle
THAILAND - Following findings by the World Trade Organisation against the US over anti-dumping measures on warm water shrimp from Thailand, new trade outlets are opening up for the South East Asian region.

Shrimp production cut by 20 Per Cent
THAILAND - Thai Shrimp Association plans to reduce shrimp production by 20 per cent next year, to cope with higher costs and lower prices.

Intervet Sponsors First Fish Health Master Class
Thailand - The Australian Centre for International Agricultural research (ACIAR) and the Crawford Foundation recently funded a 2-week master class on aquatic animal pathology in Bangkok, Thailand.

'Aquaculture is the answer'
BANGKOK - A coastline stretching more than 3,000 kilometres with an abundance of marine life has made Thailand one of the largest seafood producers and exporters in the world. Yet with demand continually increasing but supply diminishing, the country...

Depleted fish stocks challenge future of Asia seafood industry
THAILAND - Food safety and the depletion of fish stocks will remain key challenges for Asian seafood producers, according to Rabobank International.

New test kit for puffer fish toxin
THAILAND - Researchers from the Medical Sciences Department have developed a test kit that can detect the presence of the deadly poison tetrodotoxin in puffer-fish meat within five minutes.

Sea-farming project will be expanded
THAILAND - Sea-farming communities on Songkhla Lake will be expanded to boost the shrimp catch and improve the incomes and lives of the fishermen and their families, fisheries officials say.

Poison puffer fish sold as salmon
THAILAND - Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling the flesh of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years.

Shrimp farmers dispute Wal-Mart
THAILAND - Associations in the Thai shrimp industry should join with government agencies to take action against the misleading information, says Bunjonk Nissapawanich, president of the Thai Eastern Shrimp Farmers' Association.

Factory sues fish farmers over wastewater pollution allegation
THAILAND - A monosodium glutamate factory is suing fish farmers who accused it of polluting the Chao Phraya river in March, saying the allegation was false.

Shrimp exports
THAILAND - The Fisheries Department suggests shrimp farmers switch to premium sizes to avoid the problem of falling prices for smaller prawns.

Thai shrimp exports to Japan look bright
BANGKOK - Exports of Thai shrimp products to Japan are expected to increase by Bt5-6 billion by the end of this year after winning recognition in both quality and standard among consumers in a seafood and technology exhibition in Japan, according to a...

Shrimp farmers petitions at Commerce Ministry
THAILAND - Shrimp farmers from the Southern provinces marched to the Commerce Ministry on Monday, calling for price intervention measures to solve domestic price drop below production costs for more than four months.

Prawn price action threatened
SONGKHLA - Southern prawn farmers have threatened to block the Tinsulanonda bridge in Songkhla province this week if the government fails to protect them from falling prawn prices.

Thais urged to follow Ecuador
THAILAND - Thai authorities are being urged to follow Ecuador's move in taking the United States to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its shrimp anti-dumping duty.

Fish farmers promised compensation
THAILAND- Fish farmers, whose fish died due to waste water from the Phuket City Office’s waste management area, are to be compensated.

Thai shrimp farmers seek government help as prices drop
THAILAND - Three Thai shrimp production associations have asked the government for urgent assistance after local shrimp prices fell sharply, forcing some shrimp farmers to close their businesses.

Shrimp farmers request govt intervention in falling prices
THAILAND - More than 20,000 Thai shrimp operators will be forced to shut down next year if the problem of domestic price reductions remains unsolved through to the end of the year, say three shrimp-farmer associations.

Firms to press US complaints
THAILAND - Shrimp exporters will ask the Commerce Ministry this week to file separate complaints against the United States at the World Trade Organisation.