(vasep.com.vn) Seafood Joint Stock Company No4 (Seapriexco No4 – HOSE code: TS4) reported to earn VND5.7 billion of post-tax profit in the third quarter, up 37 percent from the same quarter of the previous year.

(vasep.com.vn) The People Committee of Quang Nam province has adopted the draft project on development of fresh water fish aquaculture by 2015 and orientations towards 2020.

(vasep.com.vn) Australia is a potential market of Vietnam seafood. Vietnam goods exports to Australia are facilitated by shorter distance over the U.S. and Europe.

(vasep.com.vn) According to report by Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Department, through October 2013, the fishery production reached 2,379 thousand MT, up 3.4 percent against the same time of 2012. Fish catch is expected to be around 2,211 thousand MT, up 3.1 percent while aquaculture up 7.7 percent to 168 thousand MT.

(vasep.com.vn) Viet Nhat Seafood Corporation (ViseaCorp – HOSE code: VNH) has issued its latest financial statement in the third quarter of 2013. This quarter, Ho Chi Minh City-based firm gained VND6.68 billion of net profit, up VND249.5 million compared to the compatible period of 2012.

(vasep.com.vn) 407 fishing boats in Kien Giang province are approved to be installed satellite-positioning machines (movimar) in which 146 ones were installed in the first phase of this year.

Accumulated seafood landings totalled 929,600 tonnes up to March 2014, that is to say, 8.8 per cent more than in the first three months of 2013, when 854,200 tonnes were landed, the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPESCA) reported.

Last February 127,740 tonnes of seafood were landed in Peruvian ports, a volume that represents a rise of 1.1 per cent compared with 126,340 tonnes recorded in the same month of 2013.

Norway exported seafood for NOK 16.8 (€2.026) million in the first quarter of the year. In total, this represents a 25 percent increase compared to the same period in 2013. The incredible skrei fisheries contributed to a 65 percent increase in the the export of fresh cod, according to figures from the Norwegian Seafood Council.

(vasep.com.vn) Total aquaculture and capture production in Bac Lieu province was estimated to reach 22,969 MT in April 2014, in which aquaculture output gained 12,113 MT. The locality has 104,358 hectares of fish farming area and 71,933 hectares of harvesting area.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), in May 2014, the Ministry will recommend the Prime Minister to give more incentives for fishery industry, particularly offshore fishing activities. This aims to bring higher economic efficiency, facilitate fishermen in offshore fishing, help them raise their income and protect the national security and sovereignty.

(vasep.com.vn) In QI/2014, Vietnam mollusk exports reached US$107.5 million, up 2 percent year on year thanks to the recovery of cephalopod exports.

(vasep.com.vn) Through April 2014, the Baria-Vungtau Seafood Processing and Im-Ex Joint Stock Company (Baseafood) totaled US$7 million from seafood exports, down 30 percent year on year. In which, frozen marine products (marine fish, cephalopod and surimi…) made up of 60 – 70 percent; the rest was dried seafood products sent to Russia and the Middle East.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Vietnam Trade Office in Australia in coordination with Seafood Importers Association of Australia (SIAA) surveyed the transaction and auction in Sydney Fish Market (SFM).