Fisheries officials are projecting an increase of 50,000 metric tons in tuna landings this year following the deployment of more Filipino fishing vessels in the Pocket 1 High Seas in western Pacific Ocean.

(vasep.com.vn) Japan is a large consumer market of Vietnam seafood every year. Fish paste and surimi exports to the market have reported a stable growth.

"We want the EU to consider extending such tax privileges for a certain period of time while Thailand is trying every way to defeat the disease," said Somsak Panitatyasai, president of the Thai Shrimp Association.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2012, Vietnam had faced many difficulties in shrimp exports to big markets as the U.S., Japan or EU and the year 2013 is expected to expose shrimp exporters to a lot of new challenges.

Bluefin tuna eggs from the broodstock cages of the EU Transdott project are being collected off the south east coast of Malta, and flown to Europe for rearing trials.

(vasep.com.vn) Australia is a potential market for seafood products. The country is importing averagely 200,000 MT per year, making up 70 percent of its annual fish consumption. Fish from Vietnam accounted for 25 percent of total Australian imports.

(vasep.com.vn) As three large markets – the EU, Japan and the U.S. – got a sharp drop in imports of bivalve mollusk, Vietnamese exporters accelerated exports of this species to South Korea, Australia and Canada in the first five months of 2013. However, earnings from these countries did not compensate losses from important markets because consumption demand has been weakened globally.

The lifting of the ban on fishing on some of the High Sea Pockets for Philippine vessels in the Pacific boosted domestic production by 25 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, both in volume and in value, according to the Philippine Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS).

Argentina exported 150,538 tonnes of fish and shellfish between January and May 2013, a figure that shows a 13 per cent rise over the same period in 2012, when 133,197 tonnes had been shipped abroad.

Exports of seafood (including fishmeal) from Japan rose a massive 78.4 percent in May compared to the same time last year, hitting 60,449 metric tons.

German fish sales saw yet another decline in volume last year, dropping 3.3 percent year-on-year, according to GfK-data provided by the German Fish Processors Association.

(vasep.com.vn) After a sharp decrease in QI/2013, Vietnam’s seafood exports started to rebound in April. Seafood exports in May 2013 continued the positive momentum of April, reaching US$592 million, up 8.3 percent year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, in the first 5 months of 2013, Vietnam’s tuna exports to EU made up 22.9 percent of the country’s total tuna export value. Tuna exports to the market during Jan-May of 2013 attained US$57.935 million, up 37.3 percent over that of the same period of 2012.

The director of the National Sanitary Agriculture and Livestock Service (Senasa), Heriberto Amador, anticipated for this year an export reaching almost 50 million pounds of shrimp to the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Europe.

The seafood export industry, smarting under a 5.91 per cent countervailing duty imposed by the US Department of Commerce on the shrimps imported from India, is pinning its hopes on the ‘final determination’ of the duty by the US authorities in September.