(vasep.com.vn) Hung Vuong Corporation (Hung Vuong Corp) was granted VietGAP certificate for its Hung Chau pangasius farm by the Fisheries Technology and Services Center of Vietnam (FITES) under the Decision No.02/QD-FITES signed by FITES’s director on July 25th 2013.

Vietnam’s leading pangasius fish exporter Hung Vuong Group (HVG) said it made a consolidated net profit of VND233.64 billion ($11.02 million) in the first half of this year, rising by 27.5% from the same period last year.

One thing is for sure, Pacific cod producers say – the market can’t get much worse.

Vinh Hoan Corporation is one of the top processors and exporters of pangasius/basa fish (Pangasius Hypophthalmus and Pangasius Bocourti) in Vietnam and a GLOBALG.A.P. supplier member since 2009. And when it decided to initiate its Green Farm System to assure its product quality and safety throughout the entire production process, GLOBALG.A.P. was the platform the company built it on.

(vasep.com.vn) According to An Giang Department of Industry and Trade, in July 2013, the province exported over 15.6 thousand MT of seafood, valued at US$40 million, equal to the volume of the previous month and accounting for the 98 percent of value of the previous month.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Through July 2013, provinces in Mekong Delta totaled 5,300 hectares for pangasius farming, reporting an estimated production of 46,000 MT of fishes.

(pangasius-vietnam.com)In the middle of August 2013, Goldenquality Seafood Corporation has sold pangasius products for higher price than that registered two months ago. export price

Russian fishermen have caught 2.549 million tonnes of fish since the beginning of the year, which is 2.4% more than they caught in the same period of 2012, the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) reported.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Peru possesses various natural resources and high economic potentials. It is currently the world’s leading producer and exporter of fishmeal. In 2012, Peru reported 6.3 percent of GDP growth, ranking the first in South America and the second in Latin America in terms of economic growth over the consecutive 14 years.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Australian fisheries appear to be well managed and developed. However, the capacity of wild fish catches fails to satisfy Australia’s demand for seafood, though the country has been pushing fish quotas further.

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Some fish farmers in Lagos have decried the low production of catfish fingerlings due to cold weather being experienced in Lagos and its environs.