(vasep.com.vn) In the first two months of 2013, Vietnam imported nearly US$83 million of fish products.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors spoke this week at the 2013 European Seafood Exposition (ESE) about its commitment to improving and spotlighting the quality of its seafood exports.

Russian fishermen have caught 1.414 million tonnes of fish since the beginning of the year, which is 4.1% more than they caught in the same period of 2012, the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) reported.

This seminar provided by industry experts will cover traceability and confirming the authenticity of seafood by means of DNA testing.

The value of seafood exports in Q1 2013 totalled NOK 13.4 billion (EUR 1.8 billion), which is at the same level as in Q1 2012.

US tuna prices have been in decline since the end of the 3Q of 2012 and this trend has continued into 2013 as strong import figures have kept supplies plentiful.

Party between the Australian dollar and the Japanese yen will cause headaches for the local tuna industry as it moves into harvest.

(vasep.com.vn) Seafood export turnover in the first quarter of this year is estimated at US$1.2 billion, a drop of 7.5-8 percent year-on-year.

Viet Nam's seafood export in February 2013 declined 30.8 percent reports VASEP. Total seafood export for the first two months of the year is down 0.6 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching $779 million.

Domestic and foreign experts and businesses in the fishery sector participated in a seminar in Hanoi on March 21 to seek measures to improve the sector’s development capacity. They focused on challenges experienced in observing trade standards.

Vietnam will build a fishery center costing $37 million in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa by 2015 to fulfill as part of the government’s strategy on fisheries development by 2020, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon newspaper reported Friday.

The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today released the 2012 trade figures for Canada's exports of fish and seafood products.

It is the king of sushi, one of the most expensive fish in the world — and dwindling so rapidly that some fear it could vanish from restaurant menus within a generation.

(vasep.com.vn) Despite rocketing tuna price in 2012, European economic downturn and sharply decreasing demand for high grade seafood products, tuna imports into Germany – a price sensitive market rose over 17 percent from that of 2011.

(vasep.com.vn) Referring to statistics by Vietnam Customs, pangasius export to Germany reached US$5.9 million in January 2013, up 35.7 percent from January 2012. In Germany, it is estimated that 70 – 75 percent of imported pangasius is sold in the retail segment and 25 – 30 percent is sold through the food service.