Vietnam’s seafood exports to the other 10 members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) have increased sharply since the agreement took effect earlier this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition 2018 (Vietfish 2018) hosted by VASEP will take place from 22 to 24 August 2018 at Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), 799 Nguyen Van Linh, Dist. 7, HCMC, Vietnam.

Within the framework of Seafood Expo Global 2019, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will organize the Forum "Vietnam Fishery Products - Cooperation Prospect" which is scheduled from 14:00 to 16:30 on May, 07 2019 at room 1125A, Hall 11.

Export revenues of agro-forestry-fishery products in April is estimated to hit 3.5 billion USD, pushing the figure in the first four months of this year to 12.4 billion USD, equivalent to the figure recorded in the same period last year, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong has asked localities and enterprises to deploy measures to optimise opportunities for the shrimp sector to achieve the goal of 4.1-4.2 billion USD in export in 2019.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On April 1st, 2019, Minister, Chairman of the Office of the Vietnamese Government Mai Tien Dung issued the Decision No. 224/QD-VPCP on granting the Certificate of Merit to 7 Members of the Advisory Council for Administrative Procedures Reform of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, including Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) By the end of 2018, Vietnam's export of surimi grew well with the export value to major markets growing at double- digits.

Vietnam now ranks fourth globally, first in Southeast Asia and second in Asia in terms of exports of seafood, and its products are now available in over 170 countries and territories worldwide.

Domestic seafood enterprises, especially those from southern localities, will have excellent opportunities to boost official exports to China in 2019 thanks to the country’s reduction of tariff and aquaculture output due to environmental and production cost issues, heard a workshop in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on March 5.

The fisheries sector is aiming at 10 billion USD in the export of aquatic products in 2019, a year-on-year rise of 11 percent, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The new-issued Decision by Vietnamese Government stipulates three key species of fisheries industry including Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Penaeusmonodon and Litopenaeus vannamei.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has called for more efforts to push aquatic product export turnover to 10 billion USD in 2019.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang earned nearly 580 million USD from exports in the first 11 months of 2018, exceeding its yearly target by 11.3 percent, and representing a surge of 35 percent from the same period last year.

The total export value of agro-forestry-fishery products from January-November expanded 9.1 percent year-on-year to reach 36.3 billion USD.