US - Farm-raised catfish processed during April 2010 totalled 37.1 million pounds round weight, down nine per cent from the same month in 2009 but the price per pound was 4.2 cents higher, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board of the US Department of Agriculture.

The world’s oceans may be completely depleted of fish in 40 years if action is not taken to replenish stocks, the United Nations is warning in a new report.

The Asean Shrimp Alliance (ASA) has stepped forward to establish regional production standards, aimed at heading off pressure from importing countries.

U.S. Atlantic salmon imports from Chile plummeted 71 percent, to 6,432 metric tons, in the first quarter of 2010, according to figures the National Marine Fisheries Service released this week.

The World Trade Organization said Tuesday it would rule on the first complaint brought by Vietnam to the trade body over anti-dumping measures imposed by the United States on frozen shrimps.

The octopus season off West Africa is still underway and likely to continue through April, but catches are lower than expected, and the sizes caught are not easy to sell

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in the Federal Register on Friday that it has concluded its five-year review of antidumping tariffs on shrimp imports from Thailand, China, India and Brazil, ruling that rescinding the duties “would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping.”

U.S. shrimp imports are down 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010, according to figures the National Marine Fisheries Service released on Wednesday

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Monday released its annual report card, called the Status of U.S. Fisheries, and, for the first time since its 1997 debut, no stocks were added to the overfishing list.

Deeply concerned about a virus that continues to decimate their livelihoods, more than 350 French oyster producers took to the streets of Paris last week to clinch a meeting with the country’s fisheries minister.