The Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Cepesca) welcomed the evident improvement of the bluefin tuna stock after having monitored this fishery for six years.

(vasep.com.vn) As of September 2012, Australia is the fifth largest single market of Vietnam seafood with the export turnover of US$138.7 million, up 22.7 percent from that of the same time last year.

Here in this easy-to-use handbook, the author, Robert DiGregorio, takes all the mystery and guesswork out of grading tuna.

(vasep.com.vn) As of the first half of September 2012, exports of Vietnam cephalopod and bivalve mollusk to Taiwan reported the deepest reduction compared to that of the same period of 2011 while statistics of Taiwan Customs showed that in the past 7 months, mollusk still made up nearly 30 percent of total import value of finfish and crustacean, mollusk and other aquatic invertebrates into Taiwan.

The Philippines should see a higher tuna catch starting next month after the country deployed 36 high-seas fishing vessels to the Pacific, a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) official said.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2011, Vietnam shrimp shipment set the record high of US$2.4 billion. Facing many difficulties in the current market, shrimp exports hardly obtain the same figure of last year.

(vasep.com.vn) In the period between September 25th and 28th 2012, at the invitation of Nemuro city government, a delegation of Vietnam seafood enterprises including representatives from HAI NAM Co.,Ltd, Investment Commerce Fisheries Corporation (INCOMFISH), Cau Tre Export Goods Processing JSC (CTE JSCO), Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) and some leaders of Hapro and Vi Bien Co., Ltd paid a visit to Nemuro city (Japan) in order to discuss trade cooperation with seafood enterprises in Nemuro and promote seafood exports of the city.

(VNS) Vietnam’s sturgeon breeding sector will be seriously affected by the huge volumes of illegally-imported Chinese sturgeon in recent weeks, the Nong Nghiep Viet Nam newspaper reported Thursday.

(IntraFish) Over 300 seafood products from Indonesia have been internationally certified in compliance with Codex Alimentarius, the highest international food standard, assuring products are safe for human consumption, according to The Jakarta Post.

The Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development has called for pangasius production to be added to a list of conditional pangasiusding sectors, after submitting a draft decree to the Government.

While tough global conditions mean many sections of the economy are currently swimming upstream, tra fish farmers have been given the chance to make a splash after the Government agreed to offer them preferential loan interest rates.

(fis.com) An officer of the City Agriculture Office welcomed the full recovery of the catfish industry in Barangay Los Amigos, Davao City a few years after several fishponds in the area were destroyed due to a flash flood in 2009.

(fis.com) The value of Norwegian salmon exports in the first nine months of the year totalled NOK 21.2 billion (EUR 2.9 billion). This is a slight downturn of NOK 481 million (EUR 64.97 million) compared to the same period last year.

(fis.com) Fishery and aquaculture product exports from Chile amounted to USD 2,813 million in the first seven months of 2012. This represents an increase of 6.6 per cent over the same period of 2011, when USD 2,640 million had been obtained.

(vasep.com.vn) On 15 October 2012, Queens Products from Varsseveld, the Netherlands celebrated the 10th anniversary of pangasius in the Netherlands. All families of Varsseveld were invited to pick up a free jubilee bag of pangasius between 9:20 and 10:10, in the temporary Panga drive-in. More than 300 bags with the popular pangasius were distributed by the CEO of Vinh Hoan, Ms. Truong Thi Le Khanh, the commercial attaché of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands, Mr. H. Giam Dao and the General Manager of Queens Products, Harry Hoogendoorn.