China’s direct imports of crustaceans now worth billions
Booming imports of shrimp stood out amongst China’s top seafood imports of 2018, with 192,991 metric tons of shrimp worth $1.36 billion imported directly by the country last year
Owner forfeits lobster boat, caught poaching, to Florida national park
The boat's captain, who has pleaded guilty to poaching nearly 300 spiny lobsters and stone crabs, could receive a five-year prison term when he is sentenced next month
New Zealand’s Fiordland Lobster Company expanding China sales
The company catches around 1,000 metric tons of lobster annually
Western Australia harvester launches state’s largest rock lobster boat
The Poppa G is 24 meters in length and can carry more than 200 crates of lobsters
Australian rock lobster prices fall after gov’t nationalization plans emerge
Rock lobster prices have dropped by some 25%
EU announces new tariff quotas for 2019-20, raises limit for Alaska pollock to 320,000t
The new autonomous tariff quotas from the European Council govern the volumes of seafood species that EU members can import from outside the EU at a reduced tariff
Namibian gov’t sets new quotas for horse mackerel, deep-sea crab
The country's cabinet has allocated a TAC for horse mackerel of 349,000t in 2019
Aussie rock lobster industry in uproar over gov’t’s 17% quota grab
'Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative board and management, like its members, are alarmed and vigorously opposed to [the plan]' -- GFC, Australia’s largest rock lobster company
Zero import tariffs confirm Australian rock lobster’s China calling
Australian rock lobster exporters are hotly anticipating the elimination of all Chinese tariffs levied on their products on Jan. 1, as part of the two countries' free trade agreement
Australian rock lobster ‘well-placed for growth into Asia’
Promising early catches, strong prices and the free trade agreement with China has the Australian southern rock lobster industry in a good position