(vasep.com.vn) A conference on “Measures to reduce post-harvest fishery losses” was held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in the southern province of Kien Giang. Vu Van Tam, Deputy Minister of MARD concluded that in the upcoming time, the fishery industry will reorganize fishing activities.

(vasep.com.vn) The Institute of Policy and Strategy and Rural Development (IPSARD) in collaboration with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) organized the Vietnam Agricultural Outlook Conference 2012 in Hanoi on March 6th-7th with the main content “the role of agriculture in economic growth in the context of economy restructure”

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(TheFishSite) BELGIUM – The 20th edition of the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) and 14th edition of Seafood Processing Europe (SPE) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, between Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 April. These global events will assemble seafood buyers and sellers from throughout the world with over 1,600 companies from more than 70 exhibiting countries.

(fis.com) Japan’s major tsunami and the subsequent nuclear disaster has affected about 40 percent of Japanese food companies, based on a Japan Finance Corporation food industry survey done during the second half of 2011.

(IntraFish) Cheaper seafood products from the United States are expected to enter the South Korean market after the landmark beginning of the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement last Thursday, reported The Wall Street Journal.

(IntraFish) Peru's fish production will likely fall 5 percent in 2012 due in part to a limited anchovy quota.A ban on some anchovy captures will likely cause a 20 percent drop in anchovy production, although authorities have yet to determine the quota, reports Reuters.

DA NANG — Fishermen in Da Nang City's Thanh Khe District have scored a harvest of 1,000 tonnes so far this year, 30 per cent up against the same period last year, according to the district Farmers' Association.

According to Statistics of Vietnam

(IntraFish) Popular seafood staples saw growth in 2011, according to information by research firm Datassentials. Tilapia held the spotlight for growth in menu appearance between 2007 and 2011. The seafood item saw a 58.4 percent growth in those five years, reports Nation’s Restaurant News.

(IntraFish) Russia exported 7,897 metric tons of crab to the United States in 2011. That is a 14 percent drop from 2010, said the chairman of the Russian Union of Far Eastern fishermen, Dmitry Dremlyuga.

Although in August 2010 marine fish

(Seafoodsource) In February, the export volumes of Norwegian salmon to Russia increased by almost 90 percent compared with the same month in 2010. A total of 10,800 tons were exported, a press release from the Norwegian Seafood Council in Russia reads.

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(vasep.com.vn) At 9 a.m on 6 August 2014, the opening plenary of the Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition 2014 (Vietfish 2014) was jubilantly held in the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC - 799 Nguyen Van Linh Ave., District 7, Ho Chi Minh city). The exhibition is held from 6 to 8 August 2014. For the 16th exhibition, many changes are made. The time was moved from June to August.