Mark Godfrey is an Irish journalist covering the agriculture and fisheries sectors in Asia, with a focus on China. Proficient in Mandarin, he has frequently traveled across China's fisheries and aquaculture regions and learned the inner workings of China's corporate world during a nearly three-year stint at the Financial Times' “China Confidential” publication. He has also reported widely across Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. He has educational certificates in agriculture and food science, as well as Mandarin.
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Chinese seafood prices rose by an average 1.7 percent year over year in August, representing stronger price growth than the 0.9 percent price growth seen in July.
However, a continued slump in Chinese consumer confidence has been reinforced by August economic data showing the country’s consumer price index grew by 0.6 percent in the month, compared to 0.5 percent in July – much weaker price growth than that seen in major
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has been trying for months to secure a deal to ban harmful fishery subsidies leading to overfishing and overcapacity in global fishing fleets.
Negotiations have all failed so far, and future attempts to pass the deal are looking bleak, according to European Center for International Political Economy (ECIPE) Director and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, who told SeafoodSource that key WTO members like India have dug in on
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