(undercurrentnews.com) Low inventories, combined with growing demand in Asia and stable production mean surimi demand will outstrip supply this year, by maybe 50,000 or more, said Future Seafood director Pascal Guenneugues.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is going to launch two credit packages with preferential interest rates to assist fisheries nationwide and coffee replanting in the Central Highlands, according to Nguyen Viet Manh, Head of the Bank’s Credit Department.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) The new rule, if implemented, will lead to an immediate ban of imports of some seafood products from Vietnam into the U.S.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Through April 2014, Vinh Hoan Corporation (Vinh Hoan Corp) reached US$53.9 million of turnover, down 2.5 percent year on year. This was due to lack of raw fish for processing to export.

(vasep.com.vn) On May 9th, Consulate General of Vietnam in Sydney (Australia) and Vietnam Trade Office Mission in Australia organized the ceremony to honour Norman Grant, President of the Seafood Importers Association of Australia (SIAA), with memorial medal for his contribution to trade promotion of Vietnamese seafood in Australia.

From a global perspective, Alaska, with $3.28 billion in seafood exports to 125 countries, ranked first in 2012 among all of the United States, and sixth internationally, behind Norway, Russia, Vietnam, Chile and Canada.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first time, pangasius dishes were introduced to european consumers by a Dutch chef in Seafood Expo Global in Brussels (6 - 8 May 2014).

The Viet Nam-EU Free Trade Agreement expected to be signed by October will bring "win-win" opportunities of success for both sides' business communities, delegates told a forum organised in HCM City yesterday.

The Vietnamese Government will help businesses invest in Myanmar, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said while receiving Myanmar Minister of Industry U Maung Myint in Ha Noi yesterday, May 13.

Organic fish farming has been successfully established in many countries around the world, but the United States has yet to develop a standard. With a healthy market demand and 15 years of work on its development, it leads to the question; what has happened to the US organic aquaculture standard? Writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.

Friend of the Sea and GLOBALG.A.P. have announced a collaboration that offers consumer labeling for more than two million tonnes of aquaculture products.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program announced on Tuesday it will pilot Global Seafood Sustainability Initiative (GSSI), a global sustainability certification benchmarking program founded in 2013.

(vasep.com.vn) Fish farmers will be compulsory to adopt the Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practice (VietGAP) standards in their farming process. VietGAP is also a base to link producers, consumers and retailers, Mr. Pham Anh Tuan – Deputy General Director of the Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) revealed in the workshop “Seeking co-operation in strengthening application of VietGAP” recently held in Ho Chi Minh city.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Directorate of Fisheries, through September 2013, total fish production reached 4.5 million MT, up 2.7 percent over 2012. In which, marine fish landing totaled 2.1 million MT (+3.3 percent) and aquaculture production reached 2.4 million MT (+2.1 percent).