(vasep.com.vn) After 15 years, Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition 2014 (VIETFISH 2014) organized by VASEP is increasingly becoming professional and widely known by international fishery community. VIETFISH is considered as a good destination for global buyers to find potential and qualified fish suppliers in Vietnam.

(vasep.com.vn) In first 6 months of 2013, Vietnam seafood exports to Japan reached nearly US$506 million, down 1.3% compared to the same period last year. Although shrimp exports recovered (+about 7%) in QII/2013, deep decreases in tuna and cephalopod exports (17 – 24%) led to a negative growth in the market. Japan ranked the third among top largest importers of Vietnam seafood.

(vasep.com.vn) Recently, Sai Gon Food Joint Stock Company (SG Food JSC) offered assistances to some university to support students in the 2013 university entrance exam in Vietnam. This is one of the significant activities of SG Food JSC to partly fulfill social responsibility as well as to celebrate its tenth anniversary on July 18th 2013.

(vasep.com.vn) In the wake of global economic turmoil, Vietnam’s fish paste and surimi exports to the two main markets, Japan and EU, are encountering a lot of bottlenecks.

Mexican fishing products are gaining more acceptance in the main consumer markets in the world, which is reflected in an increase in demand, informed the head of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (Conapesca), Mario Aguilar Sanchez.

The value of Norwegian seafood exports in the first six months of 2013 totalled NOK 26.9 billion (EUR 3.4 billion), a figure representing an increase of NOK 1.8 billion (EUR 227 million) or 7.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council.

This week an official delegation from Chile is visiting the Popular Republic of China in order to maintain contacts with local sanitary and food authorities, and to become aware of and be able to contrast the sanitary regulations of both countries.

Keeping up the trend of the past few months, US salmon imports rose 9.2 percent in tonnage from May 2012 to May 2013, according to statistics released Wednesday from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

The aquaculture production of Ca Mau province in the early 2013 totaled more than 237,000 MT, 8.3 percent up year on year, constituting 55 percent of the set yearly target.

The volume of salmon catch in Russia’s Far East basin this year may decline by almost 30%, compared to 2012, according to predictions of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries.

INDICATION has emerged that the southeast states of Nigeria have embraced Catfish farming with the determination to make significant production input to the targeted one million metric tons annual national output in five years time.

(seafood.com) Virginia is coping with its first run-in with a phrase no one in public health or the seafood business ever wants to hear: oyster disease outbreak.

French producers falling deeper into herpes hole, and pulling other countries in.

(vasep.com.vn) According to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, through the year to date, capture fisheries production of the whole country counted for over 1.4 million MT, representing an increase of over 10 percent from that of the same period of 2012.

Fishery and aquaculture product exports in Chile reached a value of USD 2,172.1 million in the first five months of 2013. This figure represents an increase of 4.9 per cent over the same period of 2012, when USD 2,070.1 million was obtained.