(vasep.com.vn) Bac Lieu Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has been actively cooperating with provincial Verification and Testing Centers and Institutes for Aquaculture to find the cause of shrimp mortality. The results will be released in the upcoming time.

(vasep.com.vn)Whiteleg shrimp farming will be expanded in 2014 thanks to its high productivity and short farming period. In 2013, the export turnover of whiteleg shrimp surpassed black tiger shrimp for the first time. Besides, its export revenue contributed significantly in Vietnam’s total seafood exports.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) has finished its inspection on the traceability of whiteleg shrimp broodstocks from Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia with an aim to tighten the control of imported shrimp seed quality in Vietnam.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) has recently issued the Official Letter No.3442 TCTS-NTTS on rescheduling the stock of shrimp in bracket water ponds in 2014 in order to prevent impacts of bad weather and disease risks.

Since 2005 shrimp farmers in Quang

Shrimp farmers envision brighter prospects for their industry and exports next year as production recovers from disease and many target markets recover from economic slowdowns.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s live black tiger shrimp has been allowed to enter Chinese market after the ban set by the market since October 2012.

American supermarkets benefitted from increased fresh seafood sales for the first nine months of 2013, led by crab, lobster and cod increases.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam’s shrimp producers are encouraged to import shrimp broodstock from Singapore, Indonesia to prevent diseases on farmed shrimp.

(vasep.com.vn) In the last week of December 2013, Bac Lieu province harvested nearly 2,400 MT of shrimp while only one fourth of local processing plants sourced raw shrimp for processing with the volume of 488 MT. The rest was sold to processors in other provinces.

The country's shrimp exports have increased significantly this year, making Viet Nam the world's third-largest shrimp exporter, according to the Directorate of Fisheries.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2013, Soc Trang province has produced 72,762 MT of brackishwater shrimp, up 79.6 percent against the previous year.

(vasep.com.vn)Shrimp exports of Vietnam would hit US$3.5 billion in 2014 if EMS continues to be under control, improved quality of exported shrimps and favorable conditions of main consumer markets.

The shrimp farming industry now has a known cause and a set of precautions for dealing with the disease which has devastated the vannamei industry – but it also has possible new outbreaks in those countries hoping to pick up the supply slack.