Trade insights: Chinese crayfish export prices slip in run-up to harvest
European buyers could be back in the market for crayfish tail meat after Chinese exports to the region slumped in 2018, while the US could build on last year's import surge
Crayfish price slump gifts opportunity to savvy European, US buyers
Chinese crayfish prices have fallen from last year’s high with the possibility the country's domestic consumers have experienced 'peak crayfish'
Current investment ‘just the beginning’ as Russia sets $8.5bn seafood export target
Last year, Russian exports came to $5.5bn, as the country's operators caught just over 5 million tons of fish and were in the process of constructing 35 new trawlers
Chinese crayfish prices start high but expected to drop
Currently in Hunan, China, a hub of crayfish production, 40-45% of the crop is 10-20 gram-sized crayfish, with 30-35% 20-30g. Just 10-15% is 30-40g, while 5% is 40g and above
Guolian aims for $180m annual sales from new crayfish plant
The firm aims to produce up to 150t a day of local freshwater crayfish products in phase one, generating CNY 1.2bn, or $180m, in annual sales
‘Our Superbowl’: Inland Seafoods’ New Orleans unit slammed for Lent
The 56 workers at Inland Seafood's 10,000-square-foot facility in New Orleans are in high gear for the Lenten season, one of the busiest times of the year
Guolian targets global crayfish sales with new plant coming online
As well as the growing Chinese market, the company is targeting sales to the US, Asia-Pacific and Europe
Guolian anticipates robust full-year profits
Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products, China’s largest shrimp company, expects to book full-year profits of up to $44m in 2018, the firm said
December crawfish harvest seen as harbinger of strong season
Greg Lutz, a crawfish specialist with Louisana State University's AgCenter, said that several regions of the state are seeing consistent production, for now
Future ATQs should factor in newer processing methods, says AIPCE chief
The new EU autonomous tariff quotas, announced on Dec. 11, still only apply to certain processing methods and fail to cover more modern techniques like MAP