(vasep.com.vn) The Vietnam Seafood Festival this year will take place in Phu Yen province from March 28 to 2 April 2014. The festival aims to honor potentiality of seafood sector and look for investments into Vietnam seafood sector as well as the central southern coastal region including Phu Yen.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2014, Binh Dinh province plans to attire investments in its 3 new projects on purchasing, processing and exporting ocean tuna products in Quy Nhon city, according to the province's Center for Trading Promotion.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Phu Yen Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, tuna catch of the locality in 2013 reached only 4,200 MT; over 2,000 MT lower than that of the previous years. In 2013, the province exported US$28 million.

(vasep.com.vn) 12th World Tuna Trade Conference and Exhibition was held at Bangkok, Thailand in three days May 23rd – 25th 2012.

In recent years tuna has contributed

Seen as the world’s country with the highest tuna potential, Indonesia’s annual tuna production total in 2012 was 613,557 tons according to the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Being positioned between the world’s two key tuna-producing oceans, the Indian and Pacific Ocean has allowed its production to reach an annual income of millions of dollars. The country has become important for the global tuna market, both in terms of resource and trade.

The WTO is to review this month whether the United States’ efforts to revise its “dolphinsafe” tuna labelling scheme is in full compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules with the creation of a compliance panel. The decision marks the most recent development in a longstanding dispute between the US and Mexico over the policy.

(vasep.com.vn) In the framework of Vietnam Seafood Festival 2014 in Phu Yen, Ocean Tuna Festival will take place on April 1st with 3 main activities such as contest of cuisines made from ocean tuna, street festival and folk art performances.

(vasep.com.vn) Binh Dinh province has invested VND1 billion in buying equipments for tuna fishing and preserving under Japan's technology for the locality's 5 tuna fishing vessels.

Skipjack tuna prices are continuing to fall around the world as a result of “too much fish” in Thailand, the world’s largest producer of skipjack tuna.

No more fishing for keeps of Atlantic large and medium bluefin tuna will be allowed until June. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is announcing in the Federal

The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) has successfully facilitated Indonesia to be a state member of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), rewarding the country a strategic value. By becoming a member of WCPFC, Indonesia has a stronger bargaining point in the tuna management and habitat utilization for Indonesia. This was conveyed by the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Sharif C. Sutardjo in Jakarta, on March 19.

(vasep.com.vn) In some recent years, shortage of raw material (including pangasius and tuna) for processing and exporting is a persistent concern to enterprises. There has not been a radical solution for the problem yet.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam has started fishing ocean tuna since 1994. The main species are yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, skipjack tuna with fish stocks up to 600,000 MT. Yellowfin and bigeye tuna have an average stock of more than 45,000 MT and an allowable fish catch of about 20,000 per year. Skipjack tuna has abundant stock with allowable catch of 200,000 per year.

(ISSF blog) Overcapacity is a major threat to the sustainability of tuna resources