Tilapia

On the morning of April 17, in Can Tho City, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), in collaboration with the Directorate of Fisheries and Fisheries Surveillance under the Can Tho Department of Agriculture and Environment, successfully organized the seminar titled “Solutions for organizing tilapia production and export in 2025.”

(seafood.vasep.com.vn)The red and yellow tilapia prices in An Giang have increased sharply, reaching a new record. Recently, traders in the provinces are purchasing red tilapia and tilapia at 50,000–51,000 VND/kg, the highest price ever. With this price, fish are exported to rafts, and farmers earn a 9,000–10,000 VND/kg profit.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Brazil has officially stopped importing tilapia products from Vietnam since 14 Feb 2024, according to Decision No. 270 dated 09/02/2024 by the Secretariat of Animal and Plant Health and Inspection, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply (MAPA). This decision does not affect Vietnamese businesses too much. However, this can be seen as an initial barrier for Vietnamese tilapia products, and could lead to other seafood products in the Brazilian market.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam tilapia exports in 2023 reached more than 6 million USD, down 42% compared to 2022.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After the 9-day Lunar New Year holiday, many manufacturing enterprises in Vietnam have resumed business almost 100%. Saigon Saigon Aquatic product trading Joint Stock Company (APT CO) said, on the morning of February 8, the first container of red tilapia was exported to the Korean market. Besides, the company received orders from customers in the markets of Australia, UK, Netherlands, Japan...

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In recent years, Vietnam tilapia exports showed a positive growth, particularly posted a sharp rise from 2012 to 2014 with the growth rate of 76-265%. Tilapia importers from Vietnam also increased from 8 markets in 2005 to 68 ones in 2015. With orientations of MARD to strengthen the production and development of tilapia as a key farmed species, Vietnam tilapia exports in the coming years expected to continue the positive growth.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has recently issued the Decision No.1639/QD-BNN-TCTS on approving the development planning for tilapia farming by 2020, driven by 2030.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On May, 6th 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued Decision No. 1639/QD-BNN-TCTS on approving the development plan for tilapia farming by 2020, driven by 2030.

(vasep.com.vn) During these years, Vietnam tilapia exports have been growing. The beginning of 2004 reported tilapia exports at US$ 1.946 million. After 10 years,tilapia exports reached US$ 27 million, up 180% from 2013.

It remains a puzzle. One of America's favorite fish -- a fish so well liked that its name is widely recognized on menus across the country -- hasn't made it big in Europe.

Production of tilapia fish in the country has increased nearly 35 -fold in a decade thanks to adaptation of modern commercial aquaculture, experts said.

Frozen tilapia prices ticked up for the first time in over a month to near five-year-highs as US importers wrestled with lack of supplies and rising overseas replacement costs.

Expansion of production was a big topic of the Aquamar International show, held in Veracruz, Mexico in mid-May.

(seafood.com) This year Honduras expects to export at least 20 million pounds of tilapia, according to a report in La Prensa.In 2011 exports of tilapia to the U.S., Canada and Mexico totaled just over 19 million pounds.

(IntraFish) Tilapia farmers are trying to push prices higher, but demand is soft, said China and Thailand-based executives from Siam Canadian Group.


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