(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After a long period of precarious output, prices dropped, recently the price of commercial pangasius has increased. Both enterprises and farmers raising this type of fish in Tien Giang province are excited by the good profit and speed up production.

The districts of Go Cong Dong and Tan Phu Dong, which form key saline and brackish water aquaculture areas in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, are targeting to have more than 10,500 ha of water surface area serving aquatic farming, mostly shrimp, this year.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang are raising the fry of high - value aquatic species on an area of more than 6,000ha this year, up marginally from last year, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.