Fisheries department officials say that the country will only be able to fulfil the population’s demands for fish when fishermen modernise their fishing practices in internal waters and the government obtains better equipment so that the potential new fishing grounds in the Bay of Bengal can be exploited.

(vasep.com.vn) During the period 2008 – 2012, import value of scallop into China rose by over 600 percent. Only in 2012, scallop imports into the country rose by 180 percent from 2011.

The increased cod quota is having an impact across the value chain -- from filleters being replaced by H&G vessels, to the fear of scarcity of feeding source for the predator fish.

Farm-raised catfish processed during February 2013 totaled 30.0 million pounds round weight, up 11 percent from February 2012. The average price paid to producers was 82.2 cents per pound for February 2013, up 0.3 cent from last month but 40.7 cents below a year ago.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first two months of 2013, Vietnam imported nearly US$83 million of fish products.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors spoke this week at the 2013 European Seafood Exposition (ESE) about its commitment to improving and spotlighting the quality of its seafood exports.

Russian fishermen have caught 1.414 million tonnes of fish since the beginning of the year, which is 4.1% more than they caught in the same period of 2012, the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) reported.

This seminar provided by industry experts will cover traceability and confirming the authenticity of seafood by means of DNA testing.

The value of seafood exports in Q1 2013 totalled NOK 13.4 billion (EUR 1.8 billion), which is at the same level as in Q1 2012.

US tuna prices have been in decline since the end of the 3Q of 2012 and this trend has continued into 2013 as strong import figures have kept supplies plentiful.

Party between the Australian dollar and the Japanese yen will cause headaches for the local tuna industry as it moves into harvest.

(vasep.com.vn) Seafood export turnover in the first quarter of this year is estimated at US$1.2 billion, a drop of 7.5-8 percent year-on-year.

Viet Nam's seafood export in February 2013 declined 30.8 percent reports VASEP. Total seafood export for the first two months of the year is down 0.6 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching $779 million.

Domestic and foreign experts and businesses in the fishery sector participated in a seminar in Hanoi on March 21 to seek measures to improve the sector’s development capacity. They focused on challenges experienced in observing trade standards.

Vietnam will build a fishery center costing $37 million in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa by 2015 to fulfill as part of the government’s strategy on fisheries development by 2020, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon newspaper reported Friday.