(zambotimes.com) The local aquaculture industry is looking at boosting the production of pangasius to meet growing demand for pangasius fillet both in the local and foreign market. The industry even targets to at least substitute the country's importation of pangasius fillet with locally-grown pangasius by 2016.

(szdaily.com) BRANCH stores of Carrefour in Shenzhen have suspended sales of cod products as it is suspected that its stock of the products is actually oilfish.

(vasep.com.vn) Sai Gon-Mekong Fishery Company (SAMEFICO) has been granted GlobalGAP certificate for two pangasius hatcheries, helping to develop the firm’s completed fish production chain from “farm to table”.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Over recent three years, a lot of pangasius farmers, processors and exporters have got trouble in their business or faced bankruptcy due to downing import trend in consumer markets. The U.S Department of Commerce’s higher antidumping tax on frozen pangasius fillets also made the industry unstable.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2011, Anvifish Joint Stock Company has overcome difficulties and remained its operation thanks to trade strategies set by the company’s leaders, great efforts taken by its staff and confidence of customers, said Luu Bach Thao, Anvifish’s Chairman and General Director.

(SeafoodSource) Seventeen U.S. senators signed a 24 April letter to Debbie Stabenow, chair of the senate’s Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, urging her to repeal a rule that would transfer inspection of imported catfish from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Lee Gui-ja, a South Korean housewife, will not be preparing traditional pollack pancakes for Thanksgiving celebrations this week due to worries the fish may be contaminated by radiation from Japan’s leaking Fukushima nuclear reactor.

According to the statistics of Vietnam