(vasep.com.vn) In 2011, Vietnam shrimp shipment set the record high of US$2.4 billion. Facing many difficulties in the current market, shrimp exports hardly obtain the same figure of last year.

(vasep.com.vn) In the period between September 25th and 28th 2012, at the invitation of Nemuro city government, a delegation of Vietnam seafood enterprises including representatives from HAI NAM Co.,Ltd, Investment Commerce Fisheries Corporation (INCOMFISH), Cau Tre Export Goods Processing JSC (CTE JSCO), Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) and some leaders of Hapro and Vi Bien Co., Ltd paid a visit to Nemuro city (Japan) in order to discuss trade cooperation with seafood enterprises in Nemuro and promote seafood exports of the city.

(VNS) Vietnam’s sturgeon breeding sector will be seriously affected by the huge volumes of illegally-imported Chinese sturgeon in recent weeks, the Nong Nghiep Viet Nam newspaper reported Thursday.

(IntraFish) Over 300 seafood products from Indonesia have been internationally certified in compliance with Codex Alimentarius, the highest international food standard, assuring products are safe for human consumption, according to The Jakarta Post.

The Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development has called for pangasius production to be added to a list of conditional pangasiusding sectors, after submitting a draft decree to the Government.

While tough global conditions mean many sections of the economy are currently swimming upstream, tra fish farmers have been given the chance to make a splash after the Government agreed to offer them preferential loan interest rates.

(fis.com) An officer of the City Agriculture Office welcomed the full recovery of the catfish industry in Barangay Los Amigos, Davao City a few years after several fishponds in the area were destroyed due to a flash flood in 2009.

(fis.com) The value of Norwegian salmon exports in the first nine months of the year totalled NOK 21.2 billion (EUR 2.9 billion). This is a slight downturn of NOK 481 million (EUR 64.97 million) compared to the same period last year.

(fis.com) Fishery and aquaculture product exports from Chile amounted to USD 2,813 million in the first seven months of 2012. This represents an increase of 6.6 per cent over the same period of 2011, when USD 2,640 million had been obtained.

(vasep.com.vn) On 15 October 2012, Queens Products from Varsseveld, the Netherlands celebrated the 10th anniversary of pangasius in the Netherlands. All families of Varsseveld were invited to pick up a free jubilee bag of pangasius between 9:20 and 10:10, in the temporary Panga drive-in. More than 300 bags with the popular pangasius were distributed by the CEO of Vinh Hoan, Ms. Truong Thi Le Khanh, the commercial attaché of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands, Mr. H. Giam Dao and the General Manager of Queens Products, Harry Hoogendoorn.

Myronivsky Hliboproduct wants to work with Vietnamese exporter Anvifish to introduce pangasius into Ukraine. Ukrainian agribusiness company Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) wants to invest in Vietnam's pangasius farms, according to its director Yuriy Kosyuk.

(vasep.com.vn) State-owned commercial banks in four pangasius producing provinces in Mekong Delta (An Giang, Dong Thap, Vinh Long and Can Tho) still reported high level of outstanding loans offered to insiders in pangasius aquaculture and processing sector, according to Nguyen Huy Dien, Deputy General Director of Vietnam Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) after his trip for preliminary assessments of the effects of government policy to help fish growers get out of economic difficulties.

(NASS-USDA) Farm-raised catfish processed during August 2012 totaled 24.9 million pounds round weight, down 19 percent from August 2011. The average price paid to producers was 79.8 cents per pound for August 2012, down 4.5 cents from last month and 47.9 cents below a year ago.

(fis.com) Spain exported 93,864 tonnes of canned fish and shellfish in the first seven months of 2012, totalling EUR 420 million. These figures represent annual increases of 1.35 per cent in volume and 12 per cent in value, according to the National Association of Canned Fish and Shellfish Manufacturers (Anfaco-Cecopesca).

(vanguard) The Federal Government has reiterated its committed to strengthening value chains of fisheries, livestock and crops as parts of strategies to reposition agricultural sector of the economy with a view to making the sector as business rather than a development program.