The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved a plan for developing breeding sea fish through 2015, with orientations for 2020. Under the plan, the output of sea fish raised in salt water and shrimp ponds is expected to reach 61,000 tonnes by 2015 and 98,000 tonnes by 2020. Sea fish raised in [...]
Viet Nam’s seafood sector has made remarkable progress, especially in exporting tra and basa fish, in the past decade, according to a report from the Fisheries Directorate under Viet Nam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Chu Tien Vinh, deputy Director General of the Directorate of Fisheries, said the sector earned US$5 billion from exports [...]
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) on June 14 organised a conference to report export situation as well as the serious shortage of materials. Truong Dinh Hoe, general Secretary of VASEP, reported that the shrimp export so gar has accounted for 35.5 percent of the country’s total seafood export turnover. Mekong Delta [...]
Viet Nam is expecting technical and financial support from the European Union’s Fisheries Committee to develop the domestic fisheries industry, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam. Tam said he hoped Struan Stevenson, member of the European Parliament and the committee’s vice president would be the bridge between the Vietnamese fishery [...]
Local seafood businesses anticipate that they will continue to encounter difficulties in the second quarter of the year because of the rise in interest rates and the shortage of production materials. Chu Van An, deputy director general of Minh Phu Seafood Joint Stock Corporation said that although several seafood companies have received a plenty of [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on March 17 held a ceremony to mark the merger of three seafood corporations – Seaprodex Vietnam, Ha Long Seafood Corporation and East Sea Fisheries Corporation in Ho Chi Minh City. The new corporation, called Vietnam Seafood Corporation (VSC), has a chartered capital of VND839 billion and [...]
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