(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Cephalopod exports in the first 6 months of this year reached US$288.6 million, down 3.3% compared to the same period in 2018. Exports to major markets such as South Korea, Japan, and the US increased slightly, but exports to other main markets such as EU, ASEAN, and China fell sharply.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam shrimp exports in the first six months of 2019 reached US$1.4 billion, down 12% compared to the same period of 2018. Raw material shrimp price decreased, export prices has not increased, import demand went down from the main markets and fierce competition from India, Ecuador were the main factors that makes Vietnam shrimp exports could not increase.

Cuu Long Fish Corp., Ltd (HoSE: ACL) has just released its Q2/2019 financial statement to record 817 billion VND of net revenue and 126.7 billion VND of pre-tax profit, increasing 13,3% and 120% respectively over the same period in 2018. Net profit after tax earned 113 billion, 2.2 times higher than the same period in 2018.

Nam Viet Corporation (HoSE: ANV) has just announced Q2/2019 consolidated financial statements with strong growth in revenue and profit over the same period in 2018.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam's bivalve mollusk exports in Jan-May 2019 reached US $ 36.2 million, down 3% compared to the same period in 2018.

The report by Mr Ho Quoc Luc, Former Chairman of VASEP, Chairman of Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Company when he joined in the Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition 2019 (Vietfish 2019).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition 2019 (Vietfish 2019) hosted by VASEP will take place from 29 to 31 August 2019 at Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), 799 Nguyen Van Linh, Dist. 7, HCMC, Vietnam. As part of the outstanding activities at VIETFISH 2019, VASEP is planning to hold 06 major conferences and forum to provide multi-dimensional information for seafood importers and exporters and units in the seafood services supply chain, international importers/retailers and domestic and foreign customers, ...

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In Europe, the Netherlands is not a tuna producer, but a large transit country. The Netherlands is currently the 9th largest importer of tuna in the world and the 6th largest importer in the EU. This country is also the largest tuna importer of Vietnam in the EU. In the past 3 years, Vietnam's tuna exports to the Netherlands has grown continuously, especially frozen tuna products.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Although pangasius exports to the German market decreased following the general trend of the EU region for more than 10 years from 2008 to 2018, but in recent years, especially in the first 5 months of 2019, the export value of pangasius to the German market continued to rose. Particularly in May, 2019, pangasius export value to this market hiked up: 144,7% compare to the same period in 2018. By the end of May, 2019, the export value of Vietnamese pangasius exported to Germany reached US$14.7 million, up 74.6% compared to the same period in 2018.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to the report of the Directorate of Fisheries, seafood production in the first 6 months of 2019 has developed quite well due to the increasing demand of the market.