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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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A parent and child who established artificial breeding over 20 years; the barrier of 500,000 fish a month lies in the feed
A father and son in the Mekong Delta have established the artificial breeding of marble goby. With rotifer feeding, larval survival is 50 to 60%, and they ship 200,000 to 300,000 fish a month. The remaining barrier is the switch from live feed to formulated feed. -
Yanmar acquires Norway's AKVA for 5.9 billion kroner, changing the supplier of Vietnam's fish cages
Yanmar will acquire all shares of the major Norwegian aquaculture-equipment company AKVA group at 161 kroner per share, for a total of about 5.9 billion kroner. About 92% of shareholders have already committed to tender. We lay out, from a procurement-practice standpoint, what it means for the supplier of the cages and feeding equipment used in Vietnam's marine aquaculture to change. -
In an Era When Kyokuyo Makes Sushi Toppings in Thailand, Vietnam's Factories Are Chosen for Their Processes
We have organized the shift to deep shrimp processing by four major Japanese companies, reported by VASEP on October 2, 2026, limited to what could be verified on each company's official site. It covers the length sorting and X-ray inspection that factories need in order to turn back-split shrimp into sushi toppings, and the room for growth that remains on the Vietnamese side. -
Vietnamese Pangasius's Price-Hike Request Came Because the Raw Fish Exceeded the Export Price
Raw fish at 36,000 dong against an export-equivalent of 33,000 dong. From this inverted-margin structure and the buyer order of China at 27% and Japan at 2.4%, we have organized how Japan should structure its white-fish sourcing. -
Squid migration falls below last year across the whole Sea of Japan: will Vietnamese squid and octopus come in instead?
Domestic squid is not being landed. The long-term fishing forecast for Japanese common squid in the Sea of Japan, released by the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency on July 31, 2026, put the August-to-December migration volume as "below the previous year across the whole Sea of Japan." All four sea areas—northern and central Hokkaido, southern Hokkaido and Tsugaru, the northern Honshu Sea of Japan, and the western Sea of Japan—are below the previous year... -
Brazil's Processing Industry Proposes an Annual Import Quota of 16,200 Tonnes on Vietnamese Tilapia
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported on September 24, 2026, that Brazil's seafood-processing body Abipesca had put a proposal to its own government to set an annual cap of roughly 16,200 tonnes on imported tilapia fillets. The original source is Brazil's CNN Brasil, and the quota is designed not to distinguish by country of origin... -
95% of Ho Chi Minh City's fishing boats go to electronic catch logs: how will Japan's squid sourcing change?
In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2,665 of the 2,803 fishing boats measuring 12 m or more in length have finished installing the electronic catch log (eCDT) on their devices. As of September 24, the adoption rate was 95%. The city's Department of Agriculture and Environment released the figure, and the Nong nghiep va Moi truong newspaper reported it on September 25. Replacing paper logs, the system, boat by boat and voyage by voyage,... -
A Vietnamese shrimp farmer's crop takes four months; their mind never leaves the pond, a seafood outlet wrote
On September 22, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist outlet Tepbac ran a column dealing solely with the psychology of shrimp farmers. The headline was "Throughout a crop, your mind never leaves the pond." It was placed not in the news pages but in an opinion column called "Goc nhin (Perspective)," signed by Phong. Neither the unit price nor the export value appears... -
Vietnam's 190,000 hectares of shrimp-rice: splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and the timing of planting and sourcing
On September 21, 2026, the Vietnamese seafood-specialist site tepbac.com published a technical article reorganizing practice from "doing it at the same time" to "doing it at the right time." It uses "tom - lua," which runs shrimp and rice in the same field, as an example of splitting the year between saltwater and freshwater, and from there proposes staggering the stocking timing for improved-extensive ponds... -
There are 384 trade agreements in force worldwide; the tariff on Vietnamese seafood to Japan differs by agreement
An article published by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on the morning of September 25, 2026 reported that, prompted by US tariff measures, countries are piling up bilateral and regional trade agreements, and that seafood tariff preferences are splitting finely by individual agreement. The figure placed at its center is "384." Start...
