(seafood.vasep.com.vn) An Giang’s fisheries sector has maintained stable growth momentum during the first nine months of 2025, making an important contribution to the province’s socio-economic development. Despite facing numerous challenges, the province is implementing various measures to enhance production efficiency, expand markets, and promote sustainable fisheries development toward deeper integration into the global economy.

(sefood.vasep.com.vn) The 2025 - 2030 An Giang Provincial Party Congress has set a goal to transform the province into a “leading national marine economic center” by 2030, leveraging its vast maritime area of over 63,000 km² with more than 140 islands of varying sizes.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) An Giang ranks third in the Mekong Delta in terms of brackish water shrimp farming area, yet its shrimp production is only in fifth place. In reality, the province’s shrimp sector is developing more slowly compared to many other localities in the region.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Facing market fluctuations and disease challenges, An Giang Province is implementing a high-tech agriculture transformation plan to enhance productivity, reduce risks and promote sustainable shrimp farming. By 2025, the province’s brackish-water shrimp farming area is projected to reach 137,000 hectares, with an estimated output exceeding 155,000 tons, positioning shrimp as one of the locality’s key economic pillars.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) An Giang province has many advantages for developing freshwater aquaculture. According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of An Giang, in the first six months of 2024, although seafood prices have decreased, the export situation has been promising, leading to an expansion in farming areas and an increase in harvested production compared to the same period.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Currently, An Giang province has linked consumption areas for commercial Pangasius pangasius covering approximately 1,072 hectares, accounting for 87.6% of the total farming area in the province. Notably, the farming area managed by enterprises exceeds 778 hectares, involving 9 linkage chains with 99 linked farming facilities, spanning an area of nearly 294 hectares. Prominent linked enterprises include Vinh Hoan JSC, IDI Corporation - Sao Mai Group, and Hung Phuc Thinh Food JSC.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) An Giang province's aquaculture output is predicted to reach 172.3 thousand tons in the first quarter of 2024, up 6.37% (+10.3 thousand tons) from the same time the previous year.

An Giang is one of the provinces with strengths in agricultural production, in which rice and fishery products are strategic commodities of the province, which is increasingly expanding in scale, improving quality, meeting the needs of consumption and export demand. In which, export pangasius fillet is one of the potentials for agricultural economic development of the province.