In its "2040 Vision for Fisheries and Aquaculture" released on October 20, 2026, the European Commission proposes preparing a legislative instrument for aquaculture and building a more coherent regulatory framework together with member states; it also plans to set a minimum allocation of no less than €2 billion for core common fisheries policy functions in the 2028–2034 long-term budget.
Chilean company Ventisqueros held the global launch of its premium Pacific salmon brand Silverside in Tokyo, Japan, on October 21, 2026, presenting the upgraded program to more than 80 strategic retail and foodservice customers. From 2021 to 2025, Pacific salmon sales grew 82%, equivalent to a 16% compound annual growth rate, with products reaching 73 markets.
Data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Municipal Livestock and Aquaculture Survey show that Rio Grande do Norte produced 37,978 tons of farmed whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in 2025, valued at BRL 782.9 million (approximately USD 142.3 million), accounting for about 22% of national output and ranking second only to Ceará.
Norwegian land-based farming company Gigante Salmon has, for the first time, stocked all three of its farming pools simultaneously at its land-based facility in Rødøy, Nordland County. The company continued to expand biomass in the third quarter and completed most of the stocking for the H2026 generation.
Two beach cleanup events supported by AquaChile and coordinated by Verdesur were held in Panitao and Calbuco in Chile's Los Lagos Region, where 62 primary and secondary school students collected a total of 127.8 kg of waste and learned about waste sorting and processing.
Two students from Kaliningrad State Technical University, under the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency, have developed Russian-style rice balls filled with shrimp, surimi and pearl barley, which will soon be available at the VkusVill supermarket chain.
On October 16, 2026, Chamber IV of Argentina's Federal Criminal Cassation Court (Cámara Federal de Casación Penal) rejected by majority vote the appeals filed by the fishing companies Conarpesa and Agropez, upholding the dismissal of the case against former National Undersecretary of Fisheries Carlos Damián Liberman and finding that the concentration of 75 administrative penalty proceedings against 20 shrimp vessels in 2022 was insufficient to prove targeted criminal prosecution.
The port authority of Puerto Comodoro Rivadavia has initiated salvage, removal and dismantling proceedings for the grounded and partially sunk fishing vessel "BP Ambition", with notices published in Argentina's Official Gazette since October 19 and a 30-day objection period running from the date of the last publication.
The People's Committee of Ca Mau Province issued an urgent official document in October, requiring all departments to rectify within a set deadline the European Commission's recommendations on combating IUU fishing, with a focus on verifying fishing vessel data, controlling the output of seafood loaded and unloaded through ports, and strictly investigating origin fraud.
At the 2026 Global Shrimp Forum held in the Netherlands in early September 2026, geopolitical tensions, tariff barriers, climate change and shifting consumption habits were cited as the main challenges facing the shrimp industry; less than a week after the forum closed, two US senators reintroduced a tariff bill targeting Indian shrimp.
Norwegian organic seafood farming company Organic Seafarms has had its planned autumn stocking of 500,000 salmon smolt interrupted due to an infectious salmon anaemia (ILA) outbreak in Saltenfjorden and contamination-related restrictions on its smolt supplier; three new shareholders stepped in after taking over and urgently coordinated replacement supply.
The EU H2BLUE project was launched in Brussels on October 14. Coordinated by the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands with 17 partners participating, it is funded with €7 million from the European Commission's Interregional Innovation Investment instrument for a three-year term. It will test hydrogen-powered aquaculture equipment in the Canary Islands and the Azores and reuse the oxygen produced as a by-product of hydrogen generation at onshore fish farms.
In October 2026, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued Document No. 11812/BNNMT-TSKN, requiring coastal provinces and cities to verify vessel information one by one against the national fisheries database, classify and handle unlicensed and "three-no" fishing vessels, and strengthen VMS monitoring, eCDT electronic traceability and port output verification.
On October 1, 2026, the aquafeed business of C.P. Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company held its 2026 National Customer Conference in Can Tho under the theme "30 Years of Partnership and Development," bringing together more than 500 partners, customers and distributors, and launched the CPF HYPER MONODON high-tech farming model for black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon).
Yongshui and Quang Ninh communes in Quang Tri province, Vietnam, are implementing a two-stage farming model for black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) linked to production and sales chains, achieving 2.3 to 3.1 tonnes per 0.5 hectare per crop and profits of 200 to 250 million VND.
Víctor Moraga, head of the Smart Power division at ABB Chile, said after attending the "Cena del Salmón" hosted by Mundo Acuícola that the company will expand its participation in Chile's salmon farming industry across farming centers, vessels, production processes, energy management and predictive maintenance.
The Republic of Dagestan, Russia, has relisted the use rights for the "Nizhne-Tersky" and "Achikolsky" aquaculture water areas for electronic auction, with starting prices reduced fivefold compared with the first auction in August and the lease term shortened from 25 years to 5 years.
On October 20, 2026, the Russian Federation Council unanimously supported Igor Zubarev's reappointment as First Deputy Chair of the Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Natural Resources. He disclosed that about 10 Federation Council legislative initiatives have become law, and introduced new legislative progress on state support for salmon breeding and stricter penalties for fish theft.
Chile's Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and Austral University of Chile (UACh) held a project closing workshop in Ancud to assess the feasibility of incorporating fishers' own knowledge into co-management of the southern octopus fishery.
In its "2040 Vision for Fisheries and Aquaculture" released on October 20, 2026, the European Commission proposes preparing a legislative instrument for aquaculture and building a more coherent regulatory framework together with member states; it also plans to set a minimum allocation of no less than €2 billion for core common fisheries policy functions in the 2028–2034 long-term budget.
Chilean company Ventisqueros held the global launch of its premium Pacific salmon brand Silverside in Tokyo, Japan, on October 21, 2026, presenting the upgraded program to more than 80 strategic retail and foodservice customers. From 2021 to 2025, Pacific salmon sales grew 82%, equivalent to a 16% compound annual growth rate, with products reaching 73 markets.
Data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Municipal Livestock and Aquaculture Survey show that Rio Grande do Norte produced 37,978 tons of farmed whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in 2025, valued at BRL 782.9 million (approximately USD 142.3 million), accounting for about 22% of national output and ranking second only to Ceará.
Norwegian land-based farming company Gigante Salmon has, for the first time, stocked all three of its farming pools simultaneously at its land-based facility in Rødøy, Nordland County. The company continued to expand biomass in the third quarter and completed most of the stocking for the H2026 generation.
Two beach cleanup events supported by AquaChile and coordinated by Verdesur were held in Panitao and Calbuco in Chile's Los Lagos Region, where 62 primary and secondary school students collected a total of 127.8 kg of waste and learned about waste sorting and processing.
Two students from Kaliningrad State Technical University, under the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency, have developed Russian-style rice balls filled with shrimp, surimi and pearl barley, which will soon be available at the VkusVill supermarket chain.
On October 16, 2026, Chamber IV of Argentina's Federal Criminal Cassation Court (Cámara Federal de Casación Penal) rejected by majority vote the appeals filed by the fishing companies Conarpesa and Agropez, upholding the dismissal of the case against former National Undersecretary of Fisheries Carlos Damián Liberman and finding that the concentration of 75 administrative penalty proceedings against 20 shrimp vessels in 2022 was insufficient to prove targeted criminal prosecution.
The port authority of Puerto Comodoro Rivadavia has initiated salvage, removal and dismantling proceedings for the grounded and partially sunk fishing vessel "BP Ambition", with notices published in Argentina's Official Gazette since October 19 and a 30-day objection period running from the date of the last publication.
The People's Committee of Ca Mau Province issued an urgent official document in October, requiring all departments to rectify within a set deadline the European Commission's recommendations on combating IUU fishing, with a focus on verifying fishing vessel data, controlling the output of seafood loaded and unloaded through ports, and strictly investigating origin fraud.
At the 2026 Global Shrimp Forum held in the Netherlands in early September 2026, geopolitical tensions, tariff barriers, climate change and shifting consumption habits were cited as the main challenges facing the shrimp industry; less than a week after the forum closed, two US senators reintroduced a tariff bill targeting Indian shrimp.
Norwegian organic seafood farming company Organic Seafarms has had its planned autumn stocking of 500,000 salmon smolt interrupted due to an infectious salmon anaemia (ILA) outbreak in Saltenfjorden and contamination-related restrictions on its smolt supplier; three new shareholders stepped in after taking over and urgently coordinated replacement supply.
The EU H2BLUE project was launched in Brussels on October 14. Coordinated by the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands with 17 partners participating, it is funded with €7 million from the European Commission's Interregional Innovation Investment instrument for a three-year term. It will test hydrogen-powered aquaculture equipment in the Canary Islands and the Azores and reuse the oxygen produced as a by-product of hydrogen generation at onshore fish farms.
In October 2026, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued Document No. 11812/BNNMT-TSKN, requiring coastal provinces and cities to verify vessel information one by one against the national fisheries database, classify and handle unlicensed and "three-no" fishing vessels, and strengthen VMS monitoring, eCDT electronic traceability and port output verification.
On October 1, 2026, the aquafeed business of C.P. Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company held its 2026 National Customer Conference in Can Tho under the theme "30 Years of Partnership and Development," bringing together more than 500 partners, customers and distributors, and launched the CPF HYPER MONODON high-tech farming model for black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon).
Yongshui and Quang Ninh communes in Quang Tri province, Vietnam, are implementing a two-stage farming model for black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) linked to production and sales chains, achieving 2.3 to 3.1 tonnes per 0.5 hectare per crop and profits of 200 to 250 million VND.
Víctor Moraga, head of the Smart Power division at ABB Chile, said after attending the "Cena del Salmón" hosted by Mundo Acuícola that the company will expand its participation in Chile's salmon farming industry across farming centers, vessels, production processes, energy management and predictive maintenance.
The Republic of Dagestan, Russia, has relisted the use rights for the "Nizhne-Tersky" and "Achikolsky" aquaculture water areas for electronic auction, with starting prices reduced fivefold compared with the first auction in August and the lease term shortened from 25 years to 5 years.
On October 20, 2026, the Russian Federation Council unanimously supported Igor Zubarev's reappointment as First Deputy Chair of the Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Natural Resources. He disclosed that about 10 Federation Council legislative initiatives have become law, and introduced new legislative progress on state support for salmon breeding and stricter penalties for fish theft.
Chile's Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and Austral University of Chile (UACh) held a project closing workshop in Ancud to assess the feasibility of incorporating fishers' own knowledge into co-management of the southern octopus fishery.
Russia plans to hold electronic auctions for crab investment quotas again on November 11, offering multiple opilio crab quota shares in the Far East and Northern basins, with starting prices lowered from the previous auction.
