Zhangzidao Group forms Capital Seafoods Int'l in Nova Scotia to export lobsters to China  Zhangzidao Group, which will soon operate as Zoneco in English, has set up Capital Seafoods, a subsidiary that will initially focus on the processing, packing and exporting of live and frozen Canadian lobster products to the Chinese market. Capital will be based in Nova Scotia and will focus first on shipping 1.25 – 1.5 pound lobsters to China. The products will be stored in Zhangzidao's existing holding facilities in Shanghai. According to company president Jack Liu the lobsters will be advertised as Canadian lobsters rather than the traditional “Boston” lobster promotion marketed to Chinese consumers. In addition to the lobster business, Capital already has expansion plans to export other Canadian seafood products out of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada. "We will make Capital Seafood a major hub of our future business in Nova Scotia," Liu said. Russian officials have rejected a proposal to impose duties on salmon and pollock exports. The Putin administration said it would be impossible to introduce customs duties and other such measures to keep fish in the domestic market since Russia does have the processing capacity to do so. The duty proposal from the Primorye region’s governor was intended to preserve Russia domestic fish supplies in the wake of the ban placed on food imports over the summer. In other news most prices for Alaskan salmon this summer were down compared to last season. An annual report from Alaska found prices for all fresh and roe product along with most frozen items were down; sockeye prices fell about 25 percent from 2013. Higher prices were noted for frozen H&G pink and chums. Finally, we run a couple of stories on fish consumption. The first looks at a new EU study that linked an increase in fatty fish intake to a higher response rate to antidepressants. Meanwhile, the FAO’s World Food Security group made higher fish and seafood consumption among pregnant women and children a main priority in its recent dietary report to the United Nations.