China imported 742,758 tonnes of shrimp in the first 10 months of 2025, with the total representing a 1% decrease on the corresponding period of last year – largely due to a sharp contraction in January, confirms new industry analysis from Shrimp Insights. 

The organisation notes the volume slump was gradually offset by steady growth from February through August. Monthly imports peaked in July at 90,683 tonnes (+10% year-on-year) before easing to +1% in September and flattening completely in October.

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Mowi has issued NOK 4,500 million ($441 million) in new senior unsecured green bonds across two tranches, following its stock exchange notice

The company placed NOK 3,500 million ($343 million) in five-year floating-rate notes at 3-month Nibor plus 1.10 percent, and NOK 1,000 million ($98 million) in five-year fixed-rate notes at 4.95 percent. The full amount, including coupons, will be swapped into floating-rate euro exposure. Mowi said the transaction was well oversubscribed.

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A recent Rosselkhoznadzor inspection (October 20 – November 24, 2025) uncovered serious safety violations in four imported shrimp samples. FSBI VGNKI specialists conducted the monitoring in accordance with the relevant technical regulations for fish and food safety.

Key findings include:

• Arsenic Overload: Two samples of frozen-cooked northern shrimp showed dangerously high levels of arsenic, a toxic substance. One sample exceeded the permissible limit by more than four times, and the other by almost three times.

• Microbial Contamination: Two samples of Vannamei shrimp showed elevated total microorganism counts. This suggests potential breaches of sanitary standards during production or failures in storage and transportation protocols.

The detected violations have been reported to the Northwestern Interregional Office of Rosselkhoznadzor for immediate action and logged into the Vesta automated system.

(Source: fishretail.ru)

International Commission Approves Increased Catch Limits

The annual catch quota for Atlantic bluefin tuna is set to increase by 14% to 4,321 tonnes per year for the period between 2026 and 2028, according to an announcement made by the Fisheries Agency on the 25th. The increase, which amounts to an additional 543 tonnes compared to the 2025 quota, is a direct response to the recovering status of the bluefin tuna stocks.

The decision was finalized at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). The meeting took place in Spain from the 17th to the 24th of this month. Atlantic bluefin tuna is a highly valued species, popular as an ingredient for sashimi and sushi, and it accounts for roughly 30% of Japan's total bluefin tuna catch.

The quota increase is applied across the two main fishing zones:

• Eastern Waters (European and African side): Japan's quota will see a 14% increase (445 tonnes) to 3,559 tonnes.

• Western Waters (North and South American side): Japan's quota will rise by approximately 15% (97 tonnes) to 762 tonnes.

ICCAT is composed of 55 member countries and regions, including key players like Japan, the United States, and the European Union. The next annual meeting is scheduled to be held in November 2026 in Portugal.

Fishing nations agree to protect basking and white sharks, cut mako quotas, and improve compliance process.

After a record number of proposals focused on sharks, this year’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) ended with new protections for basking and white sharks, reduced catch limits for South Atlantic shortfin makos, and procedural advances for enforcing shark measures. For the seventeenth year, efforts to strengthen ICCAT’s shark finning ban were thwarted.

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NTT Green & Food, a subsidiary of the Japanese telecoms giant NTT Communications Corp is to build a land-based coho salmon and trout farm.

The company said that it hopes to start work on the project, which it is carrying out in collaboration with the Malta-based AquaBioTech group (ABTG), early next year. ABTG is, NTT said, a global leader in aquaculture technologies and services headquartered in Malta, but operating internationally.

It is not unusual for a large Japanese industrial corporation to become involved in activities that are a long way from their core business.

Author: Vince McDonagh / Fish Farmer | Read the full article here

Seaweed is strong candidate to help agriculture sector reduce use of conventional fertilisers

Researchers working on a collaborative project exploring how kelp extracts can enhance nutrient management in farming, have reported promising results from a controlled glasshouse experiment that aimed to determine whether the extracts could improve nutrient uptake under fertiliser-limited conditions.

The trial by the Scotland-based James Hutton Institute focused on mitigations against the effects of nitrogen limitation in barley and phosphorus limitation in beans.

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Russian fishing vessels are actively harvesting masaba mackerel within Japanese waters, operating under pre-approved intergovernmental quotas.

Last week, five Russian vessels were recorded fishing off the coast of Iwaki Prefecture. The fleet's average daily catch was 63 tons, totaling 2,141 tons of mackerel for the week.

According to the Pacific branch of VNIRO, the total Russian harvest this season, as of November 23, includes 52,283 tons of washi sardine and 3,542 tons of mackerel. Scientists note that unique oceanographic conditions near the Kuril Islands have limited the amount of washi sardine entering Russia's economic zone this year.

Meanwhile, the exchange quota allowing Japanese vessels to fish for saury in Russia's exclusive economic zone concluded on October 31. The broader open-water saury fishing season saw a total catch of 123,300 tons by November 8, with Russia's share at 725 tons. Reports also indicate that between 50 and 80 foreign vessels, believed to be Chinese-flagged, are actively fishing for various pelagic species in international open waters.

Source: Fishretail.ru