VOV.VN - Israel currently represents the nation’s third largest export market in the Middle East, behind only the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey, according to figures compiled during the opening two months of the year by the Vietnamese trade office in Israel.

Vietnam is to have 280,000 ha of marine aquaculture area and 10.5 million cubic metres of farming cages by 2025, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced a list of 697 Vietnamese fishery companies meeting the conditions for export to Taiwan (China).

Export value of aquatic products reached US$405 million in February, pushing the figure in the first two months of 2021 to over US$1 billion, up 2.2% over the same period last year, reported the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point (SPS Vietnam Office) has expressed the country’s concern over Brazil’s application of regulations that go beyond international practices on shrimp and tra fish imported from Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The nation is poised to become a deep seafood processing centre and join the group made up of the three leading seafood producing and exporting countries in the world, according to a national seafood development strategy towards 2030, with a vision forward to 2045.

VOV.VN - As one of Vietnam's major suppliers of raw seafood material, Indian seafood businesses are keen to share their experience with the country to develop the seafood industry while local businesses are being encouraged to invest in the aquaculture and seafood processing sector in India.

Vietnam aims to develop its fisheries sector into a large commodity production industry with competitive capacity and responsible and sustainable integration in line with international institutions, contributing to improving employee incomes.

VOV.VN - The agro-forestry-aquatic sector has recorded a surplus of US$7.25 billion during the past nine months, representing an annual increase of 15.7%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

VOV.VN - Vietnam's seafood exports look poised to bounce back in the third and fourth quarters and are likely to hit between US$8.26 billion and US$8.3 billion over the course of the year, according to the Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.