The country’s fishing output was estimated at 447,000 MT in the first two months of 2013, up 1 percent year on year, according to Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish).

(SeafoodSource) Production of pangasius in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam has increased threefold in the past ten years, rising from 500,000 metric tons (MT) to a peak of 1.5 million MT in 2008, but currently standing at around 1.2 million MT.

In February, Quang Ninh’s seafood production hit 11,622 MT, up 3.5% year-on-year, fulfilling 13.7% of the year’s target, according to the province’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department.

Most of the 33 seafood processors in Vietnam’s southern province of Ca Mau are facing serious shortage of unprocessed materials and now have to work at 30% of their designed capacity, the Vietnam News Agency said.

The provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta plan to increase the area for aquaculture by 2,200 ha to 745,000 ha this year, yielding 1.7 million tonnes of fish and 370,000 tonnes of shrimp.

(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.