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The second victim was a young Japanese woman in her early twenties. On a business trip to the U.S., she ordered tuna sashimi for lunch. It seemed fishy to her—and she was dead right.

The third was a South African fisherman we'll call "Nate." He never ate a thing, but as he plied the waters of the new fishery he'd recently started working, elsewhere poachers harvested protected spiny lobster and exported them with false documents—further damaging recovering fishing grounds Nate hoped to one day fish again.

Seafood identity theft?

Wheat futures rose the most in four weeks in Chicago on speculation that U.S. farmers are holding onto grain, limiting supplies, after prices last month fell the most since June.

Australia, Brazil and Thailand have criticized the European Union for planning to export an extra 500,000 tons of sugar this year.

The Obama administration wants to save billions of dollars by putting new limits on farm subsidies and cutting back on government support for crop insurance companies, according to the fiscal year 2011 budget proposal released Monday by the White House.