(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has recently issued the Decision No.1639/QD-BNN-TCTS on approving the development planning for tilapia farming by 2020, driven by 2030.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On May, 6th 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued Decision No. 1639/QD-BNN-TCTS on approving the development plan for tilapia farming by 2020, driven by 2030.

(vasep.com.vn) During these years, Vietnam tilapia exports have been growing. The beginning of 2004 reported tilapia exports at US$ 1.946 million. After 10 years,tilapia exports reached US$ 27 million, up 180% from 2013.

It remains a puzzle. One of America's favorite fish -- a fish so well liked that its name is widely recognized on menus across the country -- hasn't made it big in Europe.

Production of tilapia fish in the country has increased nearly 35 -fold in a decade thanks to adaptation of modern commercial aquaculture, experts said.

Frozen tilapia prices ticked up for the first time in over a month to near five-year-highs as US importers wrestled with lack of supplies and rising overseas replacement costs.

Expansion of production was a big topic of the Aquamar International show, held in Veracruz, Mexico in mid-May.

(seafood.com) This year Honduras expects to export at least 20 million pounds of tilapia, according to a report in La Prensa.In 2011 exports of tilapia to the U.S., Canada and Mexico totaled just over 19 million pounds.

(IntraFish) Tilapia farmers are trying to push prices higher, but demand is soft, said China and Thailand-based executives from Siam Canadian Group.

Vietnam has become the second largest rice exporter in the world. However, the food security is still a local urgent necessity for the farmers in several parts of the country, particularly, in area where most of arable land used to low paddies have been transferred to uncertain crops causing many difficulties to farmers on their food need, write Nguyen Van Huong and Tran Huu Cuong, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Vietnam.

The Philippines Department of Agriculture is looking into the economic potential of tilanggit -- tilapia processed 'danggit-style' (like dried rabbitfish), reports Philstar.com.

(asc-aqua.org) On 21st March 2012, the ASC launched its first standard into the market with the opening of its accreditation process for Tilapia. Certifiers can now apply to become accredited; when successfully concluded this will allow them to undertake the first farm assessments against the ASC Tilapia Standard. Accreditation is done by the independent accreditation body Accreditation Services International (ASI). It marks an important and essential milestone for the ASC to realise its ambition of having the first responsibly farmed ASC-certified seafood available on the market.

(seafood.com) Retailers across the US took advantage of the influx of fresh and frozen tilapia fillets in the market to offer more promotions for tilapia during the 2012 Lenten season.

(TheFishSite) Tilapia is a worldwide fish of great commercial importance. In China, tilapia is an important species with annual production of more than 1.3 mmt, which accounted for about 45% of the total tilapia production in the world in 2008. Guangdong, Hainan and Guangxi Provinces ranked top three in annual production in China. However, with over two decades of rapid growth, tilapia aquaculture in China has been facing many challenges in the past years.

(vasep.com.vn) So far this year, Ho Chi Minh Center of freshwater fish seeds, under Sai Gon Agriculture Incorporation, has provided 10 million of tilapia seeds for farming to export.