Industry Issues

A three-year CFC-funded project, which ended recently, successfully produced and marketed certified organic aquaculture products from three Southeast Asian countries, sparking off interest in organic aquafarming in the region and an Asian generation of organic seafood. [Continue]

The GLOBALG.A.P Aquaculture Standard is a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized pre-farm gate standard.  [Continue]

Conference held in Cochin, India January 2011 - Who's eating my prawns? A cointegration analysis of intra EU trade for frozen shrimp and prawns - Retail channels for farmed fish in South Europe [Continue]

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 553 - Private standards and related certification schemes are becoming significant features of international fish trade and marketing.  [Continue]

The aim of this publication is to help potential and present exporters to understand, on one side, the basics of "necessary" market access certifications and, on the other, some key aspects of the "desirable" ones. [Continue]

Two presentation given by José Fernández-Polanco, PhD, Dept. Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Cantabria during L’ÉCO-ÉTIQUETAGE ET LA DURABILITÉ DES RESSOURCES HALIEUTIQUES AU MAROC  [Continue]

Fish and fish products are among the most traded food commodities: close to 40 percent by volume ends up in international markets. About half of those exports by value originate in developing countries. [Continue]

The warkshop was held at the UNESCO Microbial Resources Center (MIRCEN), Department of Fishery Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India during January 21 – 25, 2008. Dr. (Mrs) Indrani Karunasagar was the Workshop Coordinator. The workshop was jointly sponsored by FAO, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and UNESCO MIRCEN.  [Continue]

SPS AND TBT AGREEMENTS: Introduce new disciplines that govern trading practices at international level; Set out rights and responsibilities of WTO members  [Continue]

FAO workshop on fish prices held on the island of Favignana in Sicily 28-29 September 2009.  [Continue]

FAO está implementando un proyecto regional con 10 países participantes: Belice, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Republica Dominicana, México, Nicaragua, Uruguay y Venezuela.  [Continue]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on February 18 announced a proposed rule requiring inspection of catfish and catfish products by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). USDA is proposing these regulations to implement provisions as required by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, also known as the 2008 Farm Bill. [Continue]

The first edition of DG Maritime and Fisheries (hereinafter DG MARE) Handbook on the practical application of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008 of 29 September 2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. [Continue]

The final text of a new treaty that aims to close fishing ports to vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been agreed upon by a group of 91 countries during talks brokered by FAO. [Continue]

The presentation analyses trends and innovations in canned fishery products in recent years, showing development in product lines and packaging. It also indicates plausible tendencies for the future of the industry and for food consumption in the short and medium term.  [Continue]

The Manual on Processing, Pagkaging and Presentation of Value-added Tuna products is the outcome of the project, "Promotion of Processing and Marketing of Value-added Tuna products from island countries in the Asia-Pacific". [Continue]

For the first time in the history of the multilateral trading system, fisheries figure prominently in the first negotiating round of the World Trade Organization, started in 2001.  [Continue]

A new service was added to the WTO’s set of tools for finding out information on customs tariffs on 3 February 2010.  [Continue]

The Chair of the Negotiating Group on Rules, Ambassador Guillermo Valles Galmés, on 19 December 2008 circulated new negotiating texts on anti-dumping and horizontal subsidies disciplines, and a conceptual “roadmap” on fisheries subsidies. [Continue]

The Consultation recommended a series of steps, such as the need to emphasize the various benefits from fish consumption, and the various risks of not consuming fish. [Continue]

The current debate over the expansion of the EU’s Emissions Trading System from air-line traffic to other areas may have implications for a future agenda that could indirectly impact fisheries.  [Continue]

Recent reports on the detection of melamine in fish feed and fish meal might have created apprehensions in the minds of people in the fisheries sector. What is the extent of risk to the consumers? [Continue]

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 564  [Continue]

Creating a Direct Connection Between Fishermen and Consumers - By Anna Child [Continue]

An environmental comparison between artisanal fisheries in the Casamance region and a trawl fishery based in Dakar - FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular No. 1044 [Continue]