The Da Nang city People’s Committee has recently approved a project on developing sea-based economy by 2025 with vision to 2030, aiming to build the central city into a maritime economic hub with explosive growth in companion with environment protection and sustainable development.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) By 2020, the production area of rice-shrimp will be expanded up to 10,000 ha in 3 districts in Ca Mau province, including U Minh, Tran Van Thoi and Thoi Binh, with the output of 50,000 MT.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2017, total aquaculture and capture production in Thanh Hoa province was 78,932 MT, completing 50.1% of the plan, up 6.3% year on year. Of that, capture output hit 53,732 MT and aquaculture output touched 25,200 MT.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to Mr. Bui Van Lam - Director of the Ben Tre Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first haft of 2017, the total aquaculture area in the province reached more than 40,000 hectares (including shrimp, mollusks, pangasius ...), completing nearly 86% of the yearly plan, a year-on-year increase of over 12%.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In 2017, Kien Giang province plans to total an area of 114,000 hectares in brackish water shrimp farming, with the production of 63,000 MT. The province boosts shrimp farming safely, sustainably and effectively.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to Ca Mau Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, from now to 2020 as well as to 2030, the area for shrimp farming in the province will remain at 280,000 hectares.

The Prime Minister has decided to establish the Thai Binh Economic Zone (EZ) in the northern province of Thai Binh

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to Mr. Tran Dac Mau, head of the An Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, raw pangasius prices have been increasing steadily since before the Lunar New Year in 2017 and currently quoted at a high price of VND24,500-25,000/kg.

Hanoi’s agro-forestry-aquaculture production value surpassed 18.6 trillion VND (about 818.4 million USD) in the two first quarters of this year, up 2.85 percent against the same period last year, heard a conference on July 19.

Vietnam’s fishery output in the first half of this year reached 1.6 million tonnes, up 4.8 percent against the same period last year and fulfilling 54.8 percent of the yearly target

Fishermen in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have gained big profits in recent weeks thanks to favourable weather.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is focusing on fisheries exploitation on the back of its favourable natural conditions.

A seminar on developing quality and productive agriculture took place in Hanoi on June 27 as part of the Vietnam Economic Forum 2017.

Mekong delta localities sought to achieve sustainable development for Tra fish farming in Vietnam at a conference in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on June 23.

Authorities of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is directing their resources on implementing 12 priority projects worth nearly VND1.2 trillion (US$52 million) to accelerate the agricultural restructuring process by 2020.