(vasep.com.vn) Current high taxes on imported seafood products are causing difficulties for Vietnamese seafood companies, who are facing short supply of raw material for processing to export, according to VASEP.

(vasep.com.vn) Through April 2014, Hoang Lai Im-Ex Joint Stock Company exported 6.5 MT of seafood products to earn back US$4.8 billion. The company mainly sold dried squid and rolling grilled squid to countries in Southest Asia.

In July Saigon Aquatic Product Trading

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam's fisheries production in May 2014 was estimated to obtain 554 thousand MT, driving the cumulative volume through May 2014 to hit nearly 2,160 thousand MT (up 3.2 percent year on year), according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

(vasep.com.vn) Since the end of 2013, Khanh Hoa Seafoods Exporting Company Limited (Khaspexco) has seen drop of 50 percent in its marine fish exports to Japan. This drop is due to slowdown trend in consumption of these products in Japanese market.

In July 2007 Kien Giang Sea Product

(vasep.com.vn) World Bank funded VND47 billion to upgrade and enlarge De Gi fishing port in Phu Cat district, Binh Dinh province.

(vasep.com.vn) So far, fish landings in Khanh Hoa province have achieved 32,000 MT, up 3 percent year on year in which tuna production hit over 1,300 MT.

In 2006 Binh Dinh provincial fisheries

(vasep.com.vn) Bao Thu Investment and Development Joint Stock Company (BIDICO) started a project to build a new center for seafood processing which is called Tan Binh I Industrial Park in Tan Binh district, Binh Thuan province. The objective is to open a new period of development for the province's seafood processing sector and fishermen.

The average Japanese woman can expect to live 87 years, the longest life expectancy in the world. The World Health Organization says Japanese men live to about 80.

The total marine capture fish landings from the Indian coast, touched 3.78 million tonnes last year, a dip of four per cent compared to 2012, with Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala contributing the major share.

STILL reeling from the effects of Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan), total fisheries production posted a negative growth of 3.25 percent during the first quarter of 2014, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) reported recently.

(vasep.com.vn) In Phu Yen province, fish farmers are cultivating sea cucumbers and shrimp in a pond, in which, sea cucumber is the main farmed species. The model is creating more benefits for farmers and developing fish farming sustainably.

(vasep.com.vn) On 17th June 2014, People Committee of Da Nang city issued a decision to establish a fund managed by the Department of Finance to support fishermen in the city.