Argentinean seafood producers are looking to China to pick up the slack of a weaker EU market.

(vasep.com.vn) NAFIQAD sent an official letter to DG-Sanco to require this agency to add more 32 Vietnamese seafood companies into its list of foreign exporters, as well as amend the information of 16 companies and withdraw 4 other companies from the list.

(vasep.com.vn) Competent authorities in the province are giving priorities to support businesses in agriculture and fishery sector, focusing on solving their difficulties and helping them ensure raw material supply for processing and exporting.

(vasep.com.vn) Scientists in Saigon Hi-tech Park have announced to produce successfully an enrofloxacin quick detecting kit.

(vasep.com.vn) In August 2013, MARD statistics showed that exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products are estimated to reach US$2.39 billion, leading to total value of US$17.98 billion in the first eight months of the year, down 1.1 percent from that of 2012.

Chinese authorities have scooped up around 110 metric tons of dead fish they say were poisoned by ammonia from a chemical plant, environmental officials and state media said Wednesday and reported by Associated Press.

(vasep.com.vn) Can Tho University has hold a workshop “Developing production of agricultural and aqua products towards cleaner production”.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) plans to undertake a pilot national single window (NSW) system in Vietnam in the coming time. The new system is welcomed by many Vietnamese enterprises to reduce the complexity of current administrative system.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) has underlined its status as a key trade and investment partner of Vietnam with 187 projects worth 667 million USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the southern province of Dong Thap to better exploit its farming and aquaculture resources to achieve more rapid and sustainable development.

The Russian government is considering tightening control over the export and import prices for fish and seafood. Customs duties will be reduced from 1 September, as part of Russia's obligations to WTO accession. However, the government at the same time hopes to tighten price controls by establishing a center that will monitor global prices; and adjust customs duties based on the "real" value, rather than the nominal import value.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government may soon place a total ban on the importation of fish and other aquatic consumables.

(vasep.com.vn) Ca Mau, a province in Mekong Delta, targets to reach US$1 billion of total seafood export value in 2013. To fulfill this, the province is taking strategic measures focusing on expanding seafood importing markets, solving financial difficulties. Among them, finding more markets for seafood products is considered as the top priority.

(vasep.com.vn) On September 9th, 2013, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh, held a meeting with the Japanese delegation led by the President of Japan Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council.

(vasep.com.vn) On September 9th, 2013, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh had a working meeting with Belgian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Bruno Angelet, on establishing an aqua-products distribution and auction centre in Zeebrugge port, Belgium.