July 10, 2011
Industry stakeholders grapple with falling production, higher costs and low prices Farmers harvest tra fish in the Mekong Delta. A shortage of the fish is expected to recur next month. As many as 147 firms have stopped seafood processing and export to pursue other kinds of business since the beginning of this year, pushed [...]
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February 28, 2011
Seafood processors will face a shortage of tra fish, this year Vietnam’s tra fish output may drop 40 percent this year as farmers continue to turn away from the business. Industry insiders say that farmers will only be able to produce 900,000 tons of tra fish, this year, which will translates roughly to 360,000-380,000 tons [...]
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December 12, 2010
Vietnamese catfish producers and European importers are demanding the World Wildlife Fund re-evaluate its red-listing of the hugely popular export item A worker catches tra fish at a fish farm in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam Local catfish producers and government officials are calling a recent analysis of Vietnam’s most popular farmed fish “incorrect” [...]
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January 7, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Since 2008, MARD has allowed farmers to breed white leg shrimps on a large scale after a period of prohibition. It has proved to be a wise move. Over the last 10 years, shrimp has been a key seafood export item for Vietnam. Shrimp exports still represent 50 percent of the total seafood [...]
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November 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Exports of Vietnamese tra catfish have recorded a marked recovery with export volume surging to most export markets in the first 10 months of 2009, according to the Association of Seafood Exports and Processors (VASEP).The United States continued to be Viet Nam’s key importer of tra fish with purchases worth US$15.5 million in [...]
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September 25, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The VASEP has called on the Government to ‘rescue’ the seafood industry by lowering the tariff on material imports for domestic processing. VASEP’s Deputy Chairman Nguyen Huu Dung said that Vietnam needs to import materials in big quantities to feed domestic processing factories. There are some 700 seafood processing factories now in [...]
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September 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is losing the Middle Eastern and North African markets due to a regional media campaign that condemns Vietnam’s “tra” fish as unsafe. The media in the Middle East and North Africa has posted articles providing unsubstantiated information about Vietnam’s tra fish (catfish) industry. The Middle East and North Africa have emerged as [...]
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August 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s fisheries sector has grown at about 18 percent per annum during the 1998-2008 period – yet worries remain that the growth is not sustainable. At a seminar on the impact of the World Trade Organisation entry on the fisheries sector held on August 20, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) [...]
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July 28, 2009
A lot of Vietnamese shrimp exporters believe it is high time to complain to the World Trade Organization against the US barriers to Vietnam’s shrimp. The Government hasn’t yet decided whether to do so. Le Van Quang, General Director of Minh Phu Seafood Company in Ca Mau province, said that he’s all for complaining against [...]
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July 23, 2009
A leader of the Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) judges that Vietnam’s complaint to the WTO against US barriers to Vietnam’s shrimp has a good chance to succeed. Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung, VASEP deputy chairmanSince 2005, Vietnam’s shrimp exports to the United States have been subjected to anti-dumping duties. In that year, [...]
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