In August 2009 the Institute for

FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is responsible for ensuring that available drugs are safe and effective for their intended use in animals. Several offices at CVM are directly involved in reviewing and monitoring the safety and effectiveness of fish drugs: The Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation is the lead office for reviewing information about animal drugs and determining if the information meets the approval requirements. The Office of Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Drug Development manages programs and incentives that help the drug industry develop drugs for minor species, including fish, and make them legally available. The Office of Surveillance and Compliance is the lead office for monitoring safety and effectiveness information about animal drugs after they are approved and on the market and also about marketed unapproved animal drugs. The office also recommends corrective or regulatory action when FDA identifies problems with an animal drug or regulatory violations. The Office of Research develops methods and models to help FDA better ensure that food made from animals treated with an animal drug is safe for people to eat.

Tien Giang Scientific Council has

(seafoodnews.com) The NFI Crab Council has announced its first meeting designed to develop a Fishery Improvement Protocol (FIP) and potential Standard for wild-caught fisheries within the geo-political ASEAN region.

Thanks to successes of the pilot

(seafoodnews.com) After failing to reach agreement with the Norwegian fish buyers association, the Fishermen’s organization, Norges Rafisklag, unilaterally increased the minimum price of cod by NOK .50.

On December 10, 2013, from Vietnam, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) aired a one-hour webinar titled “Early Mortality Syndrome: Managing the Perfect Killer”. It featured a thirty-minute, 53-slide show narrated by GAA President Dr. George Chamberlain and was followed by a thirty-minute question and answer session in which Chamberlain and the University of Arizona’s Dr. Donald Lightner answered questions about the current status of the EMS epidemic.

According to statistics of Vietnam

(vasep.com.vn) Through December 15th, 2013, Khanh Hoa province exported 179 thousand MT of seafood products to earn back US$330 million, reaching its export goal in 2013.

(vasep.com.vn) In the context of many difficulties in pangasius farming, the diversification of other farmed aquatic species is needed to keep business. Tilapia is considered as a potential fish for export.