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.

Weaker demand from Japan — in part due to a weaker yen — is damaging China’s exports of eels to its neighbor.

(vasep.com.vn) In March 2013, shrimp imports into the U.S. continued their trend dropping 5.3 percent year-on-year, leading to an 8 percent reduction in shrimp imports into the market, observed in the first 3 months of 2013 against the same period of 2012.

In the first two months of 2013, fishery and aquaculture product exports in Chile reached a value of USD 844 million.

The National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco-Cecopesca) will meet on Tuesday with counterpart associations in Portugal and Azores to analyze the current state of the manufacturing industry of fishing-aquaculture products.

The volume of export-quality or sashimi-grade fresh mature yellowfin tuna landed at this city, the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines,” this year has gone down compared last year.