Mr. Tran Van Phuc, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Binh Dinh, said the average price for 1kg of tuna in Japan was 1,240 yen (over $10).
Phuc said the tuna fish were carefully selected by Japanese experts before they were brought to Japan for the auction.
Photo: The Japanese experts examine and evaluate the quality of tuna caught by Vietnamese fishermen.
Japanese fisheries experts said that the quality of tuna fish caught by Vietnamese fishermen is quite similar to the same products available in the Japanese market. If the fishing and maintenance process is adjusted, the quality would be much better and the price higher.
Binh Dinh currently has more than 9,600 fishing ships, including more than 1,200 tuna-catching boats. In January 2016, 730 ships went out to sea and caught over 1,000 tons of tuna, and 7% over the same period last year.
In the past few days, hundreds of local fishermen have returned to the mainland with big catches, ranging from 1.4 to 1.8 tons of tuna fish each boat, earning profit of VND100 to VND150 million ($5,000-$7,000)/boat.
Earlier, Binh Dinh authorities helped 25 fishing boats install tuna catching equipment of Japan. The province has combined with Japanese Kato group to train and hand over tuna fishing technology to local experts and 120 fishermen.
Binh Dinh fishermen sell their tunas that meet export standards to the Binh Dinh Seafood Joint Stock Company for VND170,000 ($) per kilo.
Since 2014, Binh Dinh has built link chains to purchase and export high-quality tuna to Japan. However, as the chains did not operate smoothly, the quality of the product failed to meet the market’s demands.
In related news, a Japanese firm - Hokugan Ltd Company - intends to build a plant to process ocean tuna and other aquatic products in the Dong Tac fishing port, Tuy Hoa city of the central coastal province of Phu Yen in the near future.
Vietnamese tuna products are exported to 100 countries and territories, including the US, Japan, Israel and Canada, as well as the EU and the ASEAN region.
Tuna exports have been the third biggest earner in Vietnam's seafood industry with a value of US$400 million in 2014, behind only tra fish and shrimp.
(vasep.com.vn) According to data from the Department of Fisheries, as of March 20, 2024, the shrimp farming area reached about 348,670 hectares, including 334,799 hectares of black tiger prawn farming area and 13,871 hectares of white leg shrimp farming area.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam's tuna exports reached around $84 million in March 2024, a 17% rise. Vietnam's total tuna export revenue for the first three months of 2024 was $215 million, up 19% from the same time in 2023 but down 17% from 2022. It is anticipated that tuna exports may miss the billion-dollar mark as in 2022 at this rate and the difficulties the business faces.
Vietnam raked in over US$200 million from exporting tuna to 86 markets worldwide during the first quarter of the year, representing a rise of 19% against the same period from last year.
Vietnam’s pangasius export to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached more than 7 million USD in the first quarter of this year, a rise of 67% against the same period last year. UAE mainly imported frozen fillets from Vietnam.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to data from General Department of Vietnam Customs, the UK imported nearly $3 million worth of pangasius from Vietnam in the first half of March 2024. Cumulative pangasius exports to this market reached $12 million as of March 15, 2024, down 3% from the same period last year.
Total export revenue from agro-forestry-fisheries products in the first three months of this year is estimated at 13.53 billion USD, up 21.8% over the same period last year; and this results in a trade surplus of 3.36 billion USD, a rise of 96.5%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The southernmost locality is developing shrimp farming models that generate large outputs but are environment-friendly.
(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.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to data from Vietnam Customs, as of March 15, 2024, Vietnam's cephalopod exports reached more than 109 million USD, a slight decrease of 3% compared to the same period in 2023. In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam's cephalopod exports are expected to reach about 136 million USD, down 2% over the same period last year.
(vasep.com.vn) According to statistics from the International Trade Centre (ITC), Portugal is the 6th largest tuna importer in the EU. In 2023, the country's tuna imports from other countries increased by 9% compared to 2022, reaching nearly 241 million USD.
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