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Sojitz acquired all shares of SFIH on October 2, 2026, making the UK's NESI a consolidated subsidiary. We lay out, from the breakdown of US$43 million in exports to the UK, how joint procurement and certification requirements for UK mass retailers will affect negotiations over Vietnamese white fish.

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...

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...

With wild white fish in short supply, the largest pangasius company, Vinh Hoan, is expanding sales channels centered on Europe. Its CEO named Brazil and Japan. We lay it out from the perspective of Japanese buyers looking for white-fish substitutes.

Dam Doi in Ca Mau province, together with Minh Phu, has built an ASC-certified black tiger shrimp farming zone of 268 households and 721 hectares. We lay out the points Japanese seafood buyers looking for certified raw material will want to check.

Vinh Hoan's ASC-certified prepared pangasius product "Cured Panga Croquette" took the top award at Seafood Excellence Asia 2026. We lay out its significance from the angle of a white-fish substitute for Japan's foodservice and ready-meal sectors.

The shrimp-farming cooperative HTX Thanh Dat in Ca Mau province has obtained ASC Farm Standard certification from DNV. We lay out what this certification—which majors such as Aeon make a sourcing requirement—means for sourcing to Japan and the EU, and the points buyers should check at first hand.

The major feed company BioMar has obtained its first ASC feed certification among its Asia bases, at a joint-venture plant in Vinh Long province, Vietnam. We read how an international certification at the upstream of feed works as proof of traceability in sourcing shrimp and fish to Japan.