Shrimp replaced catfish as Vietnam’s largest seafood export item in the first half of the year.
Despite a shortage of raw materials, shrimp and catfish processors earned export revenues of $717 million and $650.3 million respectively, up 22 percent and 8.2 percent.
Tuna exports virtually doubled to $147 million.
Total exports were worth slightly more than $2 billion, [...]
Vietnam has earned US$133.5 million from exporting 35,500 tons of offshore-caught seafood to EU since Jan, down 11% in value and 9% in volume on-year due to weaker euro, rather than EU’s IUU enforcement.
The Fisheries Exploitation and Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture Rural Development was quoted by the newspaper as saying that local [...]
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in late April 2010 has led to a shortage of seafood products in the US. Seafood producers have more opportunities to boost exports, but Vietnamese companies cannot take full advantage.
Seafood export prices rising or dropping?
According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), the [...]
The nation’s exports of tuna so far this year increased sharply over the same period last year, according to the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
Export value saw three-digit increases to popular markets such as the Republic of Korea with growth of 412 per cent, followed by Taiwan at 328.8 per cent [...]
Seafood processing companies are going to import about $200 million of seafood stocks in this year.Seafood processing companies are going to import about $200 million of seafood stocks in this year.
Due to lack of seafood stocks for export, companies in Cuu Long River Delta had to buy them from next provinces as well as other [...]
A coordination board for promoting tra fish export to the U.S. and a few other major markets will come out next month, an effort built on the success of a similar board set up months ago for boosting tra fish export to Russia.
Duong Ngoc Minh, head of the management board for tra fish export to [...]
Vietnam’s export turnover of tuna in foreign markets has increased sharply recently, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.
According to statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs, by the end of June 15, 2010, Vietnam had exported 37,000 tonnes of tuna, earning more than US$147 million, up 71.2 percent in quantity [...]
Vietnam’s two biggest seafood-export earners are on opposite sides of the coin, as some shrimp processors have been forced to run at one-third capacity, while a focus on quality has boosted tra fish exports.
Shrimp and tra fish made up nearly 70% of Vietnamese seafood exports last year. Exports have been growing this year but processors [...]
A Viet Nam Tra Catfish Association should be established to help farmers meet international quality standards and expand their export markets, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said at a recent conference held in the southern city of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta.
Phat asked the Viet Nam Seafood Exporters and Producers [...]
The Mekong River Delta exported more than 300,000 tonnes of tra fish in the first half of the year, up 19.4 percent compared to the same period last year, and up just 11.6 percent in value.
In the reviewed period, export turnover of tra fish was more than US$640 million and is estimated to reach more [...]
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