Tilapia– tag –
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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... -
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... -
Nam Viet breeds tilapia with the UK's Benchmark, building a quality receptacle for white fish
The major Vietnamese pangasius company Nam Viet has formed a long-term partnership with the UK's Benchmark on breeding Nile tilapia. Through ASC and BAP certification and genetic improvement, the options for white-fish raw materials used by Japanese foodservice are widening. -
A Japan–Vietnam partnership that builds the growing area first: Ha Tinh's tilapia farming for Japan gets moving
In Mai Hoa commune, Ha Tinh province in north-central Vietnam, a groundbreaking ceremony for farming ponds was held on August 10, 2026. Tilapia grow-out ponds will be built on 2.24 hectares of a single household's land, and a joint venture bearing a Japanese name will handle everything from fry to buyback. This, reported by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) the next day, the 11th,... -
Nam Viet teams up with a Norwegian player, moving first in tilapia breeding
The major Vietnamese seafood company Nam Viet (NAVICO) has formed a long-term partnership with Norway's Benchmark Genetics Norway (BGN) on the selective breeding of Nile tilapia. It was announced simultaneously from An Giang province and Bergen, Norway, on August 5, 2026. Selling fish... -
Tilapia exports to Japan up 54% in the first half, heading to a high-price market at sashimi grade
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. -
With 54% of Vietnam's tilapia exports headed to Brazil, a proposed ban and a move to diversify markets
Brazil's prohibition bill 6.331 exposed Vietnamese tilapia's 54% dependence on Brazil. We lay out its quality-focused market diversification into the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East, and the supply and prices that Japanese buyers should watch. -
Vietnam Clean Seafood makes its first shipment of sashimi-grade tilapia fillets to Japan
Vietnamese tilapia has been shipped for the first time as fillets for Japanese sushi and sashimi. It was handled by Vietnam Clean Seafood Corporation of Can Tho city. The company's CEO, Vo Van Phuc, completed the first shipment of value-added fillets to Japan in July 2026, and in terms of quality and taste, from Japanese customers... -
The day Vietnamese tilapia becomes the star of conveyor-belt sushi: Can Tho's export strategy
Can Tho city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta has set out a plan to develop tilapia (ca ro phi in Vietnamese, a white-fleshed freshwater fish) into a strategic export species. Starting from a farming area of 604 hectares at the end of 2025, the city's Department of Agriculture and Environment has set a goal of expanding the growing area to 96,500 hectares of potentially suitable land, with the United States as the main... -
Vietnamese tilapia rewrites the options for white-fish sourcing with a 'seamless, end-to-end plant'
A tilapia-processing line with a daily capacity of 200 tonnes has come online in Hung Yen province. We unpack what Vietnamese white fish, vertically integrated from seed stock to export, will bring to the Japanese sourcing front line.
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