(vasep.com.vn) As three large markets – the EU, Japan and the U.S. – got a sharp drop in imports of bivalve mollusk, Vietnamese exporters accelerated exports of this species to South Korea, Australia and Canada in the first five months of 2013. However, earnings from these countries did not compensate losses from important markets because consumption demand has been weakened globally.

The lifting of the ban on fishing on some of the High Sea Pockets for Philippine vessels in the Pacific boosted domestic production by 25 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, both in volume and in value, according to the Philippine Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS).

Argentina exported 150,538 tonnes of fish and shellfish between January and May 2013, a figure that shows a 13 per cent rise over the same period in 2012, when 133,197 tonnes had been shipped abroad.

Exports of seafood (including fishmeal) from Japan rose a massive 78.4 percent in May compared to the same time last year, hitting 60,449 metric tons.

German fish sales saw yet another decline in volume last year, dropping 3.3 percent year-on-year, according to GfK-data provided by the German Fish Processors Association.

(vasep.com.vn) After a sharp decrease in QI/2013, Vietnam’s seafood exports started to rebound in April. Seafood exports in May 2013 continued the positive momentum of April, reaching US$592 million, up 8.3 percent year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, in the first 5 months of 2013, Vietnam’s tuna exports to EU made up 22.9 percent of the country’s total tuna export value. Tuna exports to the market during Jan-May of 2013 attained US$57.935 million, up 37.3 percent over that of the same period of 2012.

The director of the National Sanitary Agriculture and Livestock Service (Senasa), Heriberto Amador, anticipated for this year an export reaching almost 50 million pounds of shrimp to the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Europe.

The seafood export industry, smarting under a 5.91 per cent countervailing duty imposed by the US Department of Commerce on the shrimps imported from India, is pinning its hopes on the ‘final determination’ of the duty by the US authorities in September.

Ecuadorian officials will call on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to get Brazil to lift restrictions on its shrimp exports after years of being banned from the country for unsanitary standards.

Using traditional farming methods Bangladeshi shrimp production lags behind its Asian neighbors. Shrimp and frozen foods processing plants in Bangladesh are running at less than 80 percent capacity due to low production, The Daily Star reported from a seminar organized by the Bangladesh Frozen Foods and Exporters Association (BFFEA).

ASC has launched a project which aims to develop the ASC Feed Standard. ASC invites experts from the aquaculture feed industry to join a working group and actively contribute to the future of responsible aquaculture feed.

(pangasius-vietnam.com) Most of import markets of Vietnamese pangasius showed recovery signs since April 2013. According to Vietnam Customs, pangasius exports reached US$174.09 million in May 2013, up 15.7 percent compared with that of May 2012. In the first five months, Vietnam generated US$708.89 million, up 1.5 percent from the same period of 2012.

(vasep.com.vn) According to Vietnam Customs, in the first 5 months of 2013, Vietnam’s exports of crab and swimming crab reached US$27.7 million, down 21.6 percent on that reported in the same time of 2012. The figure in May 2013 was US$5.1 million, down 41.3 percent on that of May 2012.

(seafood.com) ASC has launched a project which aims to develop the ASC Feed Standard. ASC invites experts from the aquaculture feed industry to join a working group and actively contribute to the future of responsible aquaculture feed.