(vasep.com.vn) In the first 5 months of 2013, Vietnam exported seafood to 149 destinations in the world is projected to earn US$2.28 billion, down 2.6 percent compared to the same period of 2012.

The Senate approved a farm bill on Monday evening 66 to 27. The legislation, which has a $955 billion price tag over the next decade, would end direct payments to farmers and boost subsidized crop insurance, but the bill did not include major food safety amendments, including Sen. John McCain's provision to repeal the controversial catfish inspection program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Norway exported seafood to a value of NOK 4.9 billion (EUR 643.5 million) in May. This is an increase of NOK 966 million (EUR 127 million), or 25 per cent, compared with May last year.

(vasep.com.vn) After a sharp decline in the first 3 months of the year, Vietnam's seafood exports began to recover from April and this trend continued in May with an increase of 8.3% to reach US$592 million. While exports of shrimp and pangasius found the upward reversal, the marine products such as tuna, squid, octopus and other sea fish tended to decline.

The average Chinese citizen will be eating 42.6 kg of fish in 2022, an average annual increase of 1.5 percent over the next decade, meaning China as a whole will eat 63 million tons of fish by then.

The eastern European nation is changing rapidly. Does it have the opportunity to become a major new market for seafood in Europe?

Thai Union and its two partners have opened the region’s biggest tuna processing plant in the industrial city of Lae, in PNG.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Colombia is a newly emerging economy in Latin America. The country possesses favourable business environment such as a clear legal framework, lower import tariffs compared to those of other countries in the region, transparent and accessible procesdures. This is an opened market which is ready to welcome international suppliers, including Vietnamese ones.

Japan's Fisheries Research Agency is starting a project this week to farm bluefin tuna a highly-prized sushi staple in on-land tanks, reported The Japan News.

The rupee's slide against the dollar has brought cheer to seafood exporters and shrimp farmers as exports now fetch higher value in rupee terms.

One Dutch shrimp importer is calling for governments to crack down on overglazing, but regulators are so far disinterested.

The Brazilian Association of Shrimp Breeders (ABCC) filed a public civil action before the court to try to stop the Argentinean shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) entry in the Brazilian market.

The Vannamei variety of shrimps played a major role in boosting India's marine products export during the 2012-13 fiscal.

Russia is now offering to buy Myanmar’s fishery products, according to sources from Myanmar Fishery Product Processors and Exporters Association.

Members of Japanese fisheries cooperatives staged a rally Wednesday in Tokyo to seek full-scale financial help from the government as rising fuel prices due to the rapid depreciation of the yen hits the industry.