The global economic slowdown and the baht being the strongest currency in Southeast Asia are major factors contributing to the country's falling short of its export target.

Vietnamese exporters have described the US Department of Commerce (DOC)’s recent levy of anti-subsidy duties on frozen shrimp imported from seven countries including Vietnam as absolutely unreasonable.

Sri Lanka is working on increasing its deep sea fishing efforts and doubling fish exports between now and 2015 and to achieve this goal, it will be using new vessels from Japan and China.

Vietnam’s aquatic export turnover to Africa reached US$30.3 million in the first quarter of this year, up 15 percent against the same period last year.

Minister for Fisheries and Ports K. Babu said here on Thursday that the trawling ban this year too would be for 47 days from midnight of June 14 to July 31.

The ongoing appreciation of Thai baht against the US dollar has forced more than 20 seafood processing industrial players in Thailand's southern Ranong Province, bordering Myanmar, to cut their production by 30-50 per cent.

China’s trade surplus in aquatic products hit USD 2.09 billion (EUR 1.6 billion) in the first quarter, an increase of 15.88 percent year-over-year.

(vasep.com.vn) Through April 15th, 2013, Vietnamese bivalve mollusk exports to Japan achieved better results than the corresponding period of last year. Sales to Japan reached growth of 22.2 – 161.6 percent. It only fell down nearly 32 percent in February.

Reports from several provinces in South China show that sales of tilapia seedlings are running well below volumes of last year. Prolonged rainy and cold weather is affecting stocking. As a result, estimates of production are decreasing.

Thai shrimp farmers today sought the Commerce Ministry's assistance to response to their declining production due to the spread of an infectious disease.

The Russian and Norwegian fishing industries are likely to suffer serious losses if the Russian Federal Veterinary And Phytosanitary Monitoring Service (Rosselhoznadzor) imposes a ban on imports of Norwegian as is currently under consideration.

(vasep.com.vn) During the past 5 years, seafood was one of Vietnam’s top 5-export items to Africa. In 2012, Vietnam exported its seafood products to 25 African countries with a revenue of US$150 million, up 38 percent over 2011.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) through the Regional Operations and Development Group (RODG) earmarked some P650 million to develop the country's pangasius industry and targeting to generate P945 million revenues by 2016.

(vasep.com.vn) Portuguese people love to eat finfish products in all varieties. Thus, the country imported a large amount of finfish while others in EU imported mainly shrimp and mollusk.

There's no smoke and mirrors about it — Americans are eating a lot more smoked seafood than they used to.