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• Netherlands

  Pressure on the dike - offshore and onshore. Pieter Tesch reports - The Dutch seafood industry is battling on a number of fronts. The flatfish sector is in crisis and nearly a third of beam trawler owners have applied to scrap their vessels. The fuel crisis has hit not only them but also the pelagic sector which is now controlled by a small group of interests with big vessels, though profits are stable. Ecologists have got an armlock on the small but lucrative shellfish sector. Pieter Tesch unravels the complexities of one of the biggest fish-catching nations in the world and finds it holding back the tide with some innovative trawling techniques and good sourcing from Mauritania. 01 Oct 2005

• Vietnam

  Vietnam tries to push the boat further out - Vietnam's fishing and aquaculture industries have witnessed rapid growth during the past decade as Vietnam has developed into one of the world's largest exporters of fishery products. David Hayes reports. 08 Aug 2005

• India

  India is back in seesaw mode as US shrimp tariffs bite and Indian exporters focus again on former markets and seek new ones. The big hope, reports editor Pilar Santamaria, after meeting people in all sectors during a recent visit, is pinned on moves to more added value processing. - Fishing exports from India are going through tough times. India's biggest market, the USA, has recently imposed new duties on Indian shrimp aimed at protecting the domestic American industry from what the US Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) calls "unfair competitors". Since February, Indian exports of shrimp carry an anti-dumping duty of 10.14 per cent with as much as 14.17 per cent in some cases. In addition, each Indian exporter is now required to be formally listed as an "importer of record" in the USA, by furnishing a bond of 10 per cent of the value of their expected exports every year. 25 May 2005

• Canada

  The Canadian fishing industry -- one of the oldest in the world -- is entering a new era, since the crisis in Atlantic ground fish in the 1990s. Shirley Kumar reports 20 Apr 2005

• Philippines

  The Philippines looks to aquaculture for long-term growth. David Hayes reports. - Not only has farmed fish in the Philippines overtaken wild catch, as in China, Filipinos are generating valuable income from value-added in areas such as seaweed exports. 19 Mar 2005

• Mauritania

  Having some of the richest fishing grounds in the world is a blessing and a curse for Mauritania, reports Shirley Kumar. 19 Feb 2005

• Indonesia

  David Hayes reports on a country with vast potential for fisheries development but also facing a number of problems from lack of infrastructure to pollution, over fishing and coastal pollution. 19 Jan 2005

• Cuba

  Cuba has many foreign investment opportunities for fishing companies around the world 01 Dec 2004

• Hong Kong

  Hong Kong is looking at distant water fisheries to revive its fishing industry. David Hayes reports. 02 Jul 2004

• Greenland

  Plentiful resources, international partnerships, profitable forward thinking companies and a well managed industry. Adrian Tatum charts the success story of the Greenland fishing industry. 01 May 2004

• Australia

  Aquaculture is one of the Australia's fastest growing sectors. While wild catch value fell last year, aquaculture production value increased. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Australia's Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ) is the largest in the world, covering 10,267 450 square km. However, its commercial catch ranks 52nd in the world, representing only 0.2 per cent of the world's production. 13 Apr 2004

• Alaska

  The row between scientists, over risks from toxins in fishmeal for farmed fish, sparked by Science magazine, may boost prospects for Alaska's wild salmon. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Last month's report in the magazine Science, of studies on the health risks of consuming farmed salmon, is expected to hit the world salmon-farming industry. But if "one man's fish is another man's poison" (to give the halieutic variant on meat proverbs), consumer reaction may be very different for Alaska's wild salmon fisheries. 08 Feb 2004

• Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka is breaking away from the languished fishing industry of the past and is making great strides towards future growth. Pilar Santamaria reports - Although for many years Sri Lankan fishing has been stagnated, the sector is now making a come back after the indefinite ceasefire agreement between the Government and the Tamil rebels separatist in the north. 12 Oct 2002

• Vietnam

  World Fishing's Pilar Santamaria on a country that is making fishing one of its top priorities after a successful few years for the industry's seafood exports - The fishing sector has not stop growing in Vietnam, establishing as one of the main activities in the country in terms of turnover from exports. 09 Oct 2002

• Pakistan

  Pakistan is one of many countries in the east wishing to improve its commercial fishing industry. Pilar Santamaria reports - Pakistan's rich fishery resources are not reflected in the export earnings from the fishery sector which has remained stagnant around US$ 150 million during last decade. Pakistan's export stood at US$ 171 million in 1997/98 whereas a rough estimate based on maximum sustainable yield figures set the total export potential to around 1 billion US$ from existing natural resources. In addition, a brief analysis of Pakistan's export in fisheries products reveals over dependence on few species with little value addition. The dependence on a limited number of species causes an imbalance resulting in over exploitation of few and under exploitation of other species. This imbalance is also reflected in fishing grounds with over 99% of landed catch being generated from continental shelf while EEZ contributing less than 1%. 17 Sep 2002