Sea Food Industry

Union fisheries minister arrives in Israel for global blue food summit

Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh arrived here on Monday to participate in the global summit on blue food security, which will focus on enhancing food production in extreme climates through breakthrough technologies. Singh, the minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, is attending the three-day event at the invitation of Israel's Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Avi Dichter. The Second Global Summit on Blue Food Security: Sea the Future' event is taking place in the southern coastal city of Eilat from January 13 to 15. Blue foods are derived from aquatic animals, plants, or algae that are caught or cultivated in freshwater and marine environments. According to official sources, Singh's participation in the global event underscores the growing strategic and economic engagement between India and Israel. It also reflects the shared commitment of both countries to deepen bilateral cooperation in the field of fisheries and aquaculture, they said. The minister

Australia expects China to lift ban on exports as they ease past 2020 row

Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell on Wednesday predicted the final obstacle for exports to China, Beijing's ban on live lobster imports, will be lifted soon after Chinese Premier Li Qiang visits the country. The return of lobsters to the Chinese market would be a milestone in the Australian government's ambition to stabilize bilateral relations since coming to power in 2022. China banned minister-to-minister communications with Australia and imposed a series of official and unofficial trade barriers in 2020 on Australian products including beef, barley, coal, wood and wine costing exporters 20 billion Australian dollars (USD 13 billion) a year. Bilateral relations plumbed new lows after a previous Australian government demanded an independent investigation into the causes of and China's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Farrell said Li becoming the first Chinese premier to visit Australia in seven years on Saturday would remove the final trade barrier on lobsters. I think ..

75% of the world's industrial fishing vessels not publicly tracked: Study

About 75 per cent of the world's industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, and much of that fishing happens around Africa and South Asia, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Researchers have created a global map of large vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure and found a "remarkable" amount of activity previously "dark" to public monitoring systems, using machine learning and satellite imagery. The researchers, led by an international non-profit organisation Global Fishing Watch, Washington, US, also found that more than 25 per cent of transport and energy vessel activity also was missing from public tracking systems. The findings help shed light on the breadth and intensity of human industrial activity at sea, which they said has been changing. "The footprint of the Anthropocene is no longer limited to terra firma," said co-author Patrick Halpin, a professor of marine geospatial ecology at Duke University, UK. The researchers found that while

Covid-19 keeps seafood exporters in a bind as orders dry up in key markets

Shipments to the US, India's largest market for marine food, are down by over 50 per cent

India beats pricing blues to record its best growth in shrimp exports

India logged a growth rate of 21.7 per cent, shipping 241,200 tonnes of shrimps from January to June of 2018.