(vasep.com.vn) During the past 5 years, seafood was one of Vietnam’s top 5-export items to Africa. In 2012, Vietnam exported its seafood products to 25 African countries with a revenue of US$150 million, up 38 percent over 2011.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) through the Regional Operations and Development Group (RODG) earmarked some P650 million to develop the country's pangasius industry and targeting to generate P945 million revenues by 2016.
(vasep.com.vn) Portuguese people love to eat finfish products in all varieties. Thus, the country imported a large amount of finfish while others in EU imported mainly shrimp and mollusk.
There's no smoke and mirrors about it — Americans are eating a lot more smoked seafood than they used to.
Weaker demand from Japan — in part due to a weaker yen — is damaging China’s exports of eels to its neighbor.
(vasep.com.vn) In March 2013, shrimp imports into the U.S. continued their trend dropping 5.3 percent year-on-year, leading to an 8 percent reduction in shrimp imports into the market, observed in the first 3 months of 2013 against the same period of 2012.
In the first two months of 2013, fishery and aquaculture product exports in Chile reached a value of USD 844 million.
The National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco-Cecopesca) will meet on Tuesday with counterpart associations in Portugal and Azores to analyze the current state of the manufacturing industry of fishing-aquaculture products.
The volume of export-quality or sashimi-grade fresh mature yellowfin tuna landed at this city, the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines,” this year has gone down compared last year.
Farm-raised Bluefin tuna from Mexico is gaining credibility and popularity in Japan for sushi and sashimi, aided by competitive pricing and burgeoning supplies.
(vasep.com.vn) With a population of 30 million people, Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Asia which has high demand for tropical products, including seafood.
The steep rise in fuel prices caused by the recent depreciation of the yen is dealing a severe blow to Japan's fisheries industry.
Chinese processors are suffering from high labor costs as factories become increasingly "undesirable" places to work.
The total volume of US seafood imports climbed 0.34percent during the first quarter of 2013, while the value of theseimports fell 3.1 percent to $3.9 billion (€3 billion).
Companies say EU-Thailand free trade could hurt canning sector. Spanish processing association Anfaco-Cecopesca on Wed will meet with Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment Miguel Arias Canete to press for trade restrictions on Thai tuna imports, according to finanzas.com.