Louis Harkell

Peru’s decision to extend its anchovy fishing ban into June has pushed Chinese fishmeal prices to fresh record highs, with no relief in sight for buyers

‘Our European customers are all back,’ Lin Shanshan, ZOF’s deputy general manager, told UCN in an interview at Seafood Expo Global

Songa remained Ecuador’s second-largest shrimp exporter in April, but only some 120t of that went to the US after it was placed on the US Food and Drug Administration’s red list

With Peru’s anchovy boats still tied up and a restart now pinned on June 11, Chinese fishmeal prices have ground out fresh record highs for a fifth straight week

The projection, from the Marine Ingredients Organisation, marks a sharp downgrade from the roughly 5.6m metric tons the world has produced in recent years

Peru extends anchovy fishing ban with no end date as Chinese fishmeal prices rise again in week 24 of 2026

EU shrimp import decline eases in April as Argentine supply rebounds

India’s shrimp exports to the US returned to year-earlier levels in April, the clearest sign yet that the trade has recovered from the punitive tariffs imposed in August 2025

The revised fisheries law, which took effect May 1, is the first full rewrite of the rules since 2000, Greenpeace told Undercurrent

One of the Netherland’s largest pelagics companies is doing well from high raw material prices, but its real target is an acquisition, Willem van der Zwan told Undercurrent