By Jason Holland, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from London
03 May, 2013 - There are mounting concerns that the Mediterranean sea bass and sea bream farming industries could soon implode amid reports of very cheap fish being put on the market.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
22 April, 2013 - Japan's current grouper production is mainly aimed at the domestic market, but new research is helping the country tap the Chinese market with farmed red grouper.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 March, 2013 - Sustainable plaice stocks, effective sole management and increasing supply of megrim are positive indicators for southern Europe’s flat and whitefish sectors, despite variable consumption and price patterns.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
22 March, 2013 - While the chief substitute — bigeye tuna — for the species remains cheap, Japan’s government is limiting the catch of wild juvenile bluefin tuna while boosting captive breeding.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 January, 2013 - Export values of the pricey fish dropped through the middle of last year while landings have stabilized.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
30 November, 2012 - Along with Italy, Spain is importing less in 2012 than in 2011, but its rich coastal and oceanic squid numbers make this cephalopod the country’s fourth most widely traded seafood.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
07 September, 2012 - Tight supplies and slow demand was expected to drive up cuttlefish prices in Spain this year, but a lower catch combined with lackluster demand have seen prices drop and margins tight.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
24 August, 2012 - A territorial dispute is affecting landings of Japanese squid. In the first four months of the year, landings of were down 28 percent from last year.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
03 August, 2012 - Thanks to an unusually warm North American winter, from Canada through the U.S. Southeast, swordfish catch is strong and early.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
24 July, 2012 - As Japan’s biggest day for eel consumption approaches, high prices are spoiling demand. Specialty shops have been hit hardest. They have had to raise prices sharply, as they must profit on the dish to survive.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
01 June, 2012 - The Japanese market, the largest for octopus, prefers smaller sizes, but the Mauritanian catch this year has been the predominately larger specimens popular in Spain. Cephalopods caught by the Mauritanian national fleet are sold through the quasi-governmental corporation Société Mauritanienne de Commercialisation du Poisson, which has set a price of USD 11,900 per metric ton for 800- to 1,200-gram octopus, up 16 percent from last year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 April, 2012 - Up until 2005, illegal fishing represented 47 percent of the total Patagonian toothfish harvest. Today, it’s a different story. Strong law enforcement efforts, particularly from Australia and France, have greatly reduced illegal catches of the prized species.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
16 March, 2012 - Spain’s European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) season starts in early March, with the first Bay of Biscay catch landed in Cantabria on the north-central coast. This early catch is destined for fresh fish markets prior to larger catches as the season progresses to meet anchovy canners’ demand.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
17 February, 2012 - The USD 750,000 Pacific bluefin tuna sold on the first business day of 2012 at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market represents the price of publicity rather than fish. A better indication of the market is the second-highest fish, which sold for JPY 25,000 per kilogram. The lower end of the range for fresh domestic bluefin was around JPY 20,000, with the average 20 percent up from 2011’s opening.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 November, 2011 - A spotty season didn’t slow demand for wild Pacific albacore this year. In fact, prices are nearly double that of a year ago due to strong demand.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
21 October, 2011 - Domestic catfish production took another precipitous drop this summer due to mounting production costs and other economic pressures. Only 192.5 million pounds (round weight) had been processed through July, down 31 percent from the previous year’s seven-month total.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
16 September, 2011 - Pangasius broke onto the top 10 list of America’s favorite seafood items in 2009, and demand for the species hasn’t slowed since. In 2010, it gained a position, jumping from No. 10 to No. 9, with per-capita consumption reaching 0.405 pounds.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
15 July, 2011 - A relatively unknown product just three years ago, demand for cobia in the United States is now so strong international suppliers are taking advantage and ramping up production to satisfy an eager market.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
25 February, 2011 - With the recent cuts in bluefin tuna catches in the eastern Atlantic Ocean region, Vietnam’s yellowfin tuna industry is hoping for better earnings. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) in early February announced it is aiming for a 4.5 percent increase in tuna exports to 120,000 metric tons valued at USD 300 million, compared to 2009 totals valued at USD 13 million.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
22 March, 2010 - For swordfish, it’s been a typical winter pattern this year. Low supplies are keeping prices moderately high, although global economic conditions are keeping prices lower than they could be as spring approaches.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
25 January, 2010 - Mahimahi prices have bottomed out, as production in Central America has peaked in recent weeks. However, prices are expected to increase in the spring and summer months as Pacific production winds down in May and Atlantic production not kicking in until a few months later.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
15 June, 2009 - Thanks, in part, to higher demand and lower global supplies earlier this year, swordfish prices are strengthening somewhat.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 June, 2009 - After falling 13 percent last year, to 2.6 million metric tons, global tilapia production continues to rebound, and China is leading the way.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
21 May, 2009 - The supply situation for yellowfin tuna, which many sushi chefs claim is the next-best thing, is not as dire as bluefin tuna but is being closely watched by regulators and environmentalists alike.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
02 March, 2009 - The global fish oil market has been on a rollercoaster of highs and lows in 2008.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
12 February, 2009 - Prices on raw materials for skipjack tuna fall 20%, allowing for tuna canners to increase exports.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
12 February, 2009 - King and Spanish mackerel populations and quotas are healthy and expected to remain so for the 2007-08 fishing year.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
31 December, 2009 - Year-end consumption of luxury foods is slumping in Japan due to the depressed economy, which is keeping tuna prices in check at Tokyo’s Tsukiji wholesale fish market. Over the past four weeks, prices of bigeye tuna have dipped 13 percent, while prices of yellowfin tuna have slipped 14 percent.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
18 February, 2010 - Both prices and supplies of swordfish so far this year have been typical of the winter months. U.S. production is dominated by the Pacific, especially in Hawaii. Mid-Atlantic and offshore boats landing in either Puerto Rico or South Carolina are the second strongest influence, with South America having the least amount of impact on supplies right now.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
04 February, 2011 - The average price for domestic seine net-caught frozen bluefin tuna at Tokyo’s Tsukiji auction on 29 January was JPY 4,586 per kilogram. Domestic farmed blufin tuna averaged JPY 3,575 and Spanish farmed came in at JPY 3,500. And prices are showing no sign of abating.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
18 February, 2011 - A huge harvest of winter yellowtail in the Sea of Japan has brought prices down. The wholesale price at the end of January was JPY 15,000 to 16,000 per 8-kilogram fish, or around JPY 1,875 per kilogram, compared with JPY 3,000 last year. According to the Fisheries Research Institute, 130,774 fish weighing a total of 1063.1 metric tons were taken from 1 December to 31 January at Himi Port in Toyonaka Prefecture. This is the largest catch at the port since record-keeping began in fiscal year 1998.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 August, 2012 - The majority of the Peruvian sardine market is destined for fishmeal exports, with China being the dominant buyer.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
28 September, 2012 - Issues with Korean flounder boost demand for Japan’s sea bream, with rising prices beginning in the spring and showing no signs of letting up.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
15 February, 2013 - Production volumes and prices are rising steadily centered on farming, with leading farmers in Spain and Portugal with France, the Netherlands, U.K., Iceland and Denmark producing as well.
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