A new study from of Carrefour’s sales of Northeast Atlantic cod hints that traceability – and by association, fisheries sustainability – pays off.
Retailers stand to increase profitability by increasing the sustainability of their seafood supply chains, according to a study sponsored by French bank BNP Paribas and published in June 2022 by financial think tank.
Based on a detailed study of seafood sold by the Carrefour chain,
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Two partners in Ireland’s coalition government have clashed over salmon-farm licensing policy.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, currently Ireland’s minister for environment, climate change, and communications, wrote recently to his ministerial colleague Charlie McConalogue – a member of the Fianna Fáil party and head of Ireland’s Department of Agriculture – questioning the system in place to regulate salmon
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The co-organizer of the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo is hoping for a return to normal in 2023 after years of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2022 version of the event, running from 26 to 28 October in Qingdao, China, will be limited to domestic buyers due to local COVID restrictions, according to Peter Redmayne, president of the U.S.-based Sea Fare Group.
“It looks like this year’s show will be a lot like last year
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A rebound in Thailand’s tourist trade is being offset by a surge in imported salmon prices for Bangkok-based Thammachart Seafood Retail Co.
Thammachart sells a variety of premium seafood at its retail outlets, primarily located in malls across Thailand. Tourists had been major drivers of seafood consumption prior to the pandemic, with Thai resorts thronged with tourists from China, the world’s largest source of outbound
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Irish seafood exports are up in the first five months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, mainly thanks to the reopening of the mainland European tourist trade ...
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China has barred access to several international seafood firms for what it alleges is noncompliance with United Nations recommendations on COVID-19 prevention ...
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Chinese seafood prices fell in June 2022, but remain higher than pre-COVID levels, according to data from the country’s Agricultural Ministry.
A survey of wholesale markets by the ministry’s pricing information monitoring office shows that while average prices in June were down 18.8 percent year-over-year, the average price of …
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The economies of China and Thailand look set to become more integrated with the completion of the first of two stages of a USD 12 billion (EUR 11.7 billion) high-speed rail link connecting the two countries.
Construction on the north end of the line is expected to be completed by 2026, opening the way for faster connections of people and freight traffic. Thailand is a major supplier of seafood to China, but prior to the pandemic, Chinese
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Non-governmental organizations and fishing industry groups have had sharply differing reactions to the latest edition of the U.S. government’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP), which was published 19 July, 2022.
The latest edition of TIP, published annually the U.S. State Department, kept Taiwan at Tier One status while upgrading Thailand and Ireland to Tier Two, despite claims of labor abuse in the fishing industries of all three states.
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Beijing-based seafood marketing consultancy Seabridge is predicting bullish growth for China's seafood import value in the coming years, predicting that inbound purchases will recover back to USD 15 billion (EUR 14.7 billion) in 2022 – close to the country’s all-time high value of USD 15.4 billion (EUR 15 billion) in 2019.
That figure is nearly double the 2017 figure. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a contraction of imports in China,
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