A seminar to increase the managerial capacity of ocean tuna fishing was held in the central city of Da Nang on November 13.
The Tien Giang Province-based Hung Vuong Seafood Co has launched a support scheme for farmers to rescue the local tra fish industry that reached deadlock for the past several months.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has ordered the Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) to work with three central provinces to speed up its programme to modernise their tuna fishing fleets and re-organise fishing operation to improve the value chain.
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Local seafood processing enterprises are overwhelmed by the number of regulations and criteria for waste treatment. Some criteria are said to be much more demanding than other countries in the region.
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Hundreds of aquaculture farms operating in Vung Ro have been told that they must close no later than October 2013, the Phu Yen Province People's Committee has said.
Inspectors from the National Service of Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA) said seafood processing plants in Viet Nam satisfy all their food safety requirements and are qualified to export to the Argentine.
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A workshop was held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on 5 November, to introduce the project on assessing the impacts of the implementation of the WTO and regional commitments on the agriculture and rural development sector.
Fifteen years ago, the Pangasius farming marked a major turning point for Viet Nam’s seafood industry. And this time, the history is likely to repeat itself with sturgeon, a new species that has been introduced into culture in Viet Nam for less than a decade.
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On September 21, the world’s first ASC-certified Pangasius fillet was officially sold at a branch of Dirk van den Broek supermarkets in the Netherlands. As of the followed week, more than 2,000 supermarkets in the Netherlands sold bags of Pangasius fillet bearing the ASC label for sustainably farmed fish.
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From now to 2020, the industry will modernize the vessels, renovate the shipbuilding and reshuffle the capture activities.
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