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Quang Ngai province, aiming to have the EU's yellow card lifted, is tightening up the licensing, VMS, and catch records of 4,863 fishing vessels. We unpack the local moves that caught 100 vessels with interrupted signals, and the traceability demands that reach Japanese buyers.

Vietnamese tilapia exports to Japan rose 54% in the first half of 2026. We unpack, through the numbers and the global supply and demand for white fish, how a fish once used as a substitute for sea bream at conveyor-belt sushi is opening up the Japanese market as a sashimi-grade, high-value-added product.

Chinese frozen squid is rapidly losing its presence in the EU market. According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on July 28, China's frozen-squid exports to the EU in the first half of 2026 came to only 19,690 tonnes, down 49.4% from the same period a year earlier. Of the EU's frozen-squid imports, China's...

At the export front line for Vietnamese hard clams (a bivalve known locally as ngao, also written ngheu), the way European buyers purchase has begun to change quietly but decisively. According to Vietnam's agriculture-and-environment newspaper (Nong nghiep Moi truong) on July 1, 2026, bivalve processing and...