Thailand affirmed to the American authorities that food safety is part of Thailand's national agenda, including agricultural products to be exported to the US, which are certified by food standards agencies both to boost confidence among consumers and competitiveness in the world market. Thailand affirmed to the American authorities that food safety is part of Thailand's national agenda, including agricultural products to be exported to the US, which are certified by food standards...

He provides nearly 400,000 shrimp a year to shrimp farmers who will then sell their product around the state to be eaten. Seven years after Ohio began allowing nonindigenous shrimp farming, the industry continues to grow, thanks in part to America's insatiable appetite for shrimp and a desire by consumers for locally grown food. Since 2000, interest has risen from both farmers and the public, with shrimp farming now occurring in at least 16 states, according to the U. Shrimp overtook...

Fishermen and others in the shrimp industry complained for years about the drastically reduced price of shrimp, claiming that foreign nations dumping vast quantities of farm-raised shrimp on the U. As the popularity of shrimp overtook salmon as Americans' seafood of choice, the quantity of foreign shrimp in the market also increased. Add Comment South Carolina's beleaguered shrimp industry might find a sliver of help from recent news halting importation of Chinese seafood. The Beaufort...

At risk In a separate interview, Benson Dakay, president of the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines and chief executive officer of Cebu-based Shemberg corp., said the country s entire seaweed industry is also at risk if seaweed production is not increased to meet the growing demand of processors. Sarmiento said an increase in the farmers profitability is possible through extensive research development, training, cost harvest, market and credit. DA Undersecretary Jesus Emmanuel...

Scarcity of hilsha fish has forced Bangladesh to "temporarily" restrict its export to India and the ban would be revised with the normal availability of the delicious fish in local markets, officials said on Monday. Fisheries department studies earlier suggested that production of hilsha, Bangladesh's national fish has reduced by 60 per cent in two decades. He added that the meeting also decided to restore the export when the price comes down with the normal availability of the fish....

The flip side of the overly hot development of tra and basa farming is that it has caused a serious lack of breed fish, increased prices of food for fish and chemicals. According to the Ministry of Fisheries, tra and basa farming has developed to an uncontrollable rate with the farming density of 300-500 tonnes per hectare, which, as experts have warned, will have bad impacts on the environment. In the province, farmers can produce breed fish and keep parent fish through the winter....