(seafood.vasep.com.vn) As of July 2017, Ca Mau Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with CP Vietnam Corporation and Centre for Aquaculture and Fisheries Sustainability (ICAFIS) organized a training course on improving management process in shrimp culture for 40 super-intensive shrimp farming households in the province.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Under the scheme of Khanh Hoa Province (Vietnam) for 2016-2025, orientation to 2035, the area of aquaculture in Van Ninh district by 2020 expected to hit 200 hectares.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2017, the favorable weather facilitated catching activities of ocean tuna in Khanh Hoa province.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Thanks to the clean and safe farming, Khanh Hoa’s grape seaweed hit high yield and met standards for exports.

The European Union is ready to support Vietnam’s seafood industry, but it has to review its fisheries management and address its shortcomings, the First Counselor of the EU Delegation to Vietnam, Miriam Garcia Ferrer, told a meeting in HCM City on November 9.

Vietnam could become self-sufficient in parent shrimp production from now to 2020.

The area of super-intensive shrimp farming in Ca Mau province, the country’s largest shrimp producer, has increased this year as the model offers high profits for farmers.

Vietnam’s aquaculture, fishery industry and seafood are on display at the seventh International Exhibition of Fishing and Aquaculture (SIPA 2017) which is underway in Oran, Algeria from November 9-12.

Vietnam seeks to enhance food safety management with support of the Netherlands and the World Bank (WB), announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on November 10.

A quarter-century of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea has yielded impressive progress, especially in investment and trade, said Kim Jaehong, Chairman of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) at the Vietnam-Korea Business Partnership Forum held on November 10 in Hanoi.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2017, the capture and aquaculture production of Quang Trach district (Quang Binh province) totaled nearly 6,000 MT, an increase of 15% over the same period last year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first half of this year, the capture output of Phu My district (Binh Dinh province) hit nearly 40,000 MT, up 7.78% over the same period last year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Khanh Hoa province (Vietnam) boosts to invest in intensive shrimp farming, especially high-tech shrimp farming to increase productivity in the coming years.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2017, the favorable weather facilitated fishing activities in the country. According to the report of Directorate of Fisheries, in the period, the total output of fishery was estimated at 3.328 million tons, up 4.2% from the same period last year. Of that, the capture output touched 1.66 million MT, up 4.7% and aquaculture production hit 1.67 million MT, increasing by 3.8% (brackish water shrimp volume hit 195,000 MT, up 7.7%; pangasius output was 550,000 MT, up 4.7%).

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first six months of this year, capture output of Bac Lieu province (Vietnam) reached nearly 60,000 MT.