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Huy Nam thickens shrimp supply to Japan, expanding farming to prepare for the year-end sales season
The Vietnamese seafood processor and exporter Huy Nam is building up its mainstay shrimp supply to Japan ahead of the year-end sales season. Nguyen Nam Vinh, the company's vice president, revealed that it is pursuing three moves at once: expanding into farming, diversifying markets, and maintaining supply. As of August, orders... -
Kura Sushi's white fish was catfish — how pangasius became a Japanese staple
The white-fish topping gliding along the conveyor-belt sushi lane turns out to be catfish raised in the Mekong Delta. On July 5, 2026, the Vietnamese fisheries trade magazine Vietfish Magazine reported that Vietnamese pangasius (basa) has penetrated Japan's white-fish consumption to the point of ranking second only to Alaska pollock fillets. Processed food... -
"Proof of origin" for Vietnamese tuna goes from paper to electronic; transparency for Gia Lai's 4,000 vessels
Gia Lai province has begun a monthly subsidy for electronic fishing logbooks on 4,000 fishing vessels of 12 m or more. Using eCDT, it digitally tracks the origin of catches to address the lifting of the EU yellow card and origin certification for exports to Japan. We unpack the impact on Japanese tuna and skipjack importers.
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