(atuna.com) Despite unfavorable weather, fishermen in Vietnam experienced good tuna catches.

Despite unfavourable weather, fishermen nationwide caught 202,500 tonnes of fish in January, up 3.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the Directorate of Fisheries.

Improved logistics and infrastructure is an urgent need for the growing fisheries sector in Binh Dinh, says Nguyen Huu Hao, deputy director of the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A global system for communications (GSM) will cover other 51 fishing boats operating in water areas in the central city of Da Nang.

In the first month of the year, seafood enterprises processed more than 6,000 tonnes of shrimp for export, a huge increase from last year.

The figure included 32,000 MT of aquaculture and 57,000 MT of capture, fulfilling respectively 100% and 111.3% of the year‘s target.

Instead of providing official development assistance (ODA) capital for Vietnam’s aquaculture sector, Denmark will develop commercial ties between the two countries in this sector from this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam has reported that major agricultural, forestry and aquacultural export commodities in 2012 saw higher increases from 2011.

As much as VND301 billion (about $14 million) will be needed to further propel the development of Vietnam’s aquaculture sector in 2013. The General Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the amount at its year-end meeting in Hanoi on December 25.

(vasep.com.vn) The People's Committee of Dong Thap province has issued the Decision No. 1129/QĐ-UBND-HC on approving project on investing in infrastructure and technique for aquaculture during the 2012 – 2015 period in the orientation to 2020.

(vasep.com.vn) Can Tho city is implementing the project on turning aquaculture sector into key economic sector in the orientation to export by 2020.

Viet Nam’s total seafood production in 2012 reached an estimated 5.74 million tonnes, a 5.1 per cent rise from last year, according to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Representatives from as many as 100 Cambodian and Vietnamese companies gathered in Phnom Penh to seek agricultural investment opportunities between the two countries.

According to the provincipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the local capture output is anticipated to reach 83 thousand MT in 2012, up 10.4 percent against that of 2011.

Authorities should discuss and select standards for Vietnamese pangasius to facilitate export activity... Vietnamese pangasius producers now have to comply with multiple sets of standards, including ASC, GlobalGap (Good Agriculture Practice) and BAP (Best Aquaculture Practice).