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Fisheries & Shrimp
$4.3 BShrimp export value
World 1 RankCatfish exports
Shrimp farming, pangasius, and more
# Shrimp farming# Catfish# Mekong Delta
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Shrimp farming, pangasius, and more
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Japan's surimi-product exports up 9% by volume; shipments to Vietnam rise 2.2-fold but to just 21 tonnes
According to Ministry of Finance trade statistics, surimi products such as kamaboko exported from Japan in January–July 2026 totaled 6,186 tonnes. That is up 9.5% from 5,650 tonnes in the same period a year earlier. The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported this on September 25 as content Minato Shimbun reported citing Ministry of Finance data... -
Seafood up 9%; households' real seafood spending down 6%, splitting the shelf by item
A short article released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026 reports that household spending is not keeping up with rising seafood prices in Japan. The "9%" and "6%" in the headline are figures that serve directly as negotiating material for the Japanese side sourcing seafood raw materials from Vietnam. How... -
International financing debated for Vietnamese shrimp; the bottleneck lies not only in the amount of funds but in collateral and records
On September 21, 2026, Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment held a public-private partnership (PPP) forum in Can Tho city focused on the Mekong Delta's shrimp industry. Held through the Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture Vietnam (PSAV) in collaboration with USGBC, a US grain and bio-products industry association, the agenda centered on the shift to a circular model... -
Vietnam's whelk farming reaches 6,200 tonnes a year: can it be used for Japan's shellfish sourcing?
On September 24, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet tepbac summarized how the farming of oc huong (Babylonia areolata) reached the order of 6,000 tonnes a year over 25 years (by author Kim Tien). A sea snail that had relied on wild harvesting became a subject that can be farmed in a planned way through artificial seed production... -
Tilapia to Japan up 77% in eight months; what goes to sashimi is a 1.7 kg brackish-water fish
In figures released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026, tilapia (ca ro phi) exports reached US$90 million for the January–August cumulative total, up 43% year on year. In the same figures, exports to Japan were US$2 million cumulatively, up 77%, and US$400,000 in August alone (original text "400 nghin USD"), up 19... -
Ecuadorian shrimp at 2.4 dollars at pond harvest: Vietnamese managers fight with processing and large size
The third installment of the series "Unpacking the Miracle of Ecuadorian Shrimp," published on September 24, 2026, by Nong nghiep va Moi truong, the house organ of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, was the one that named, from the mouth of a company executive, which segment Vietnam's shrimp industry should compete in. The speaker is Thanh Vuong Co., Ltd. (Cong ty TN... -
Vietnam has the world's most ASC feed-certified plants at 15: what should Japanese buyers ask?
On September 21, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) released the content of a new-standard training session it held jointly with the ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) in Can Tho on September 15. The targets were farms, companies, and aquaculture-feed plants. What matters to Japanese buyers is that the scope of the audit does not stop inside the fence of the farming pond but, the feed... -
Abandoning a dirty river to pipe seawater 5 km: Nghe An's 55 hectares of shrimp remain on uncertain land contracts
In Quynh Anh, Nghe An province in north-central Vietnam, a shrimp farmer who laid about 5 km of seawater pipeline at his own expense 15 years ago was featured. Hoang Xuan Tin, head of the Loc Thuy Aquaculture Cooperative (HTX Nuoi trong thuy san Loc Thuy)... -
Kyokuyo expands sales of Vietnamese pangasius in Japan: why did exports to Japan grow 20%?
The major Japanese seafood company Kyokuyo presented about 500 seafood and processed-food items to about 760 client companies at its own trade show held in Osaka on September 11. At the event, organized by its four branches in Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka, one of the items proposed was fillets of Vietnamese frozen pangasius (ca tra)... -
Nghe An shrimp farming hit by a typhoon: the site rebuilt with 2 billion dong
An advanced shrimp farm in Nghe An province, after suffering several billion dong in damage from a typhoon at the end of 2025, is recovering by investing about 7 billion dong in a year in deeper ponds and environmental monitoring. We read the underlying supply strength Japanese seafood sourcing should look at.
