Between January and August 2013 a total of 149,090 tonnes of fresh fish entered the ports of Spain, 5.1 per cent less than in the same period of 2012, when landings reached 157,167 tonnes, reported Puertos del Estado.

The French consume around 190,000 metric tons of mussels each year, 95 percent of which are farmed, according to Marie Christine Monfort, senior consultant at Marketing Seafood and Sea-Matters.

The value of Norway’s exports of herring, mackerel and other pelagic fish in September totalled NOK 545 million (EUR 67.2 million).

(vasep.com.vn) Through September 2013, Vietnam’s bivalve mollusk exports reached US$54.6 million, down 4.1 percent from that of the same time last year.

(vasep.com.vn) In the third quarter of 2013, Bentre Aquaproduct Im-Ex Joint Stock Company (Aquatex Bentre – HOSE code: ABT) reached VND134.56 billion of turnover, generating VND19.2 billion of post-tax profit.

(vasep.com.vn) In August 2013, Gepimex 404 Company (Gepimex 404) exported 430 MT of seafood products for a value of US$746 thousand. Year-to-date export volume was 3,291 MT, worth US$53 thousand.

(vasep.com.vn) South Korea is the largest importer of Vietnam cephalopod, making up 29.6 percent of Vietnam’s total export value of the item.

(vasep.com.vn) Kien Giang province is one of the pioneers in helping Vietnamese fishermen officially sign contracts to go fishing in Indonesian waters with high fish stocks, said Tran Chi Vien, Deputy Director of Kien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The fisheries policy launched by the Government will allow Mexico in the next decade to increase per capita consumption of fish and seafood, which is currently about nine kilograms, said the national commissioner of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Mario Aguilar Sánchez.

(vasep.com.vn) Up to September 2013, Vietnam’s cephalopod exports to EU reported a sharp dip of 31.9 percent year-on-year. Cephalopod exports to 3 main consumer markets in EU block (Italy, Germany and Belgium) marked the reduction of 20.8 percent, 7 percent and 46.8 percent, respectively.

Fish landings accumulated up to September, 2013 totalled 1.9 million tonnes, that is to say 26.9 per cent less than in the first nine months of 2012, when 2.6 million tonnes were landed.

(vasep.com.vn) Investment Commerce Fisheries Corporation (Incomfish - HOSE code: ICF) has recently issued its business report through September of 2013.

According to the “Fisheries of the United States 2012” report, the average American ate 14.4 pounds of seafood in 2012, a 4 percent drop from the 2011 figure of 15.0 pounds.

(vasep.com.vn) Australia is in high demand for Vietnamese products such as garments, footware, seafood, wood furniture, etc.

(vasep.com.vn) Through October 2013, fish production of Khanh Hoa province estimated to gain 72,380 MT, up 7 percent year-on-year.