(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam seafood exporters to China are facilitated by preferential policy recently approved by authorities in Yunnan province, China. The policy aims to foster seafood imports into the province in 2014.

In July and August 2009 Ngoc Chau

(vasep.com.vn) On January 21st 2014, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (MHLW) issued official announcement on increasing maximum residue limits (MRL) of Ethoxyquin (an anti-oxidant substance used in shrimp feed production) on Vietnam shrimp imported into the market. The new MRL is 0.2 ppm, 20-fold increase from the current level of 0.01ppm. Moreover, Japan decided to lift the regulation of 100 percent Ethoxyquin testing on Vietnam’s shrimp imported into the market.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2013, shrimp farming area hit by EMS has reduced remarkably from the previous year thanks to biofloc technology applied by farmers in some central and Mekong Delta provinces.

EMS is the fourth major disease outbreak to hit Mexican shrimp growers in the last 23 years, and according to the discussions at the recent NFI Global Seafood Marketing Conference, it will have the most severe impact yet, and is catastrophic for the industry.

Although the U.S. contributed 50

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s shrimp exports in 2013 performed well and surpassed US$3 billion mainly thanks to a continuous rise in global shrimp price.

Early detection device for disease-causing bacteria is to become available worldwide in early 2014. The University of Arizona’s Professor Don Lightner is on the brink of launching a solution for detecting bacteria which causes Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) in stocks, allowing infected populations to be separated from healthy ones.

(vasep.com.vn) In Khanh Hoa province, traditional model of lobster cage rearing is exposing a lot of inadequacies such as widespread epidemic, low shrimp output and farming productivity. It is high time for Khanh Hoa to look towards sustainability in lobster cage farming sector.

Negotiations between Ecuador and the European Union on the future of its zero duty trade agreement are to resume in Brussels next week. The discussions will focus on the potential to extend the South American country’s GSP+ status with the region until the end of 2015.

(vasep.com.vn) In the fourth quarter of 2013, after-tax profit of Sa Giang Import Export Corporation (Sagimexco) totaled VND6.2 billion. Its net revenue in the quarter touched VND58.5 billion. The cumulative figure to the end of 2013 was VND201.01 billion.

(vasep.com.vn) Aquaculture in Long An province has performed well because the quality of shrimp seed is ensured, sedimentation ponds are established and farmers obey farming techniques guided by experts.

Farmers in Bac Lieu and Ca Mau provinces

Vietnamese businesses need to conduct research into the Bangladesh market to boost export value, the Africa, West Asia, and South Asia Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has said.