Toan Dao has written about Vietnam’s business community, with a focus on energy and agriculture, for a number of Vietnamese and international outlets for more than 10 years. As a contributing editor for SeafoodSource in Southeast Asia, he also covers other major seafood producers in the region including Indonesia and Thailand.
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Bangladesh’s frozen fish and shrimp exports surged in the fiscal year ending 30 June, driven by stronger demand from India and China, as well as improved compliance with export requirements, traceability, and quality control.
The South Asian nation’s seafood export value rose 19.3 percent year over year in the period to USD 388.7 million (EUR 333.4 million), The Business Standard reported 13 October, citing data from
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Thailand’s Parliament has approved sweeping amendments to the country’s Fisheries Law, drawing criticism from small-scale fishers and environmental groups who warn the changes could weaken marine protections and undermine international commitments on sustainable fishing.
Thailand introduced a new Fisheries Act in 2015 in an attempt to curb illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and labor abuses after being downgraded to
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Vietnam’s tilapia exports have surged this year, driven largely by booming U.S. demand, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
In the first eight months of 2025, Vietnam shipped tilapia worth USD 52 million (EUR 44.2 million) to global markets, marking a 359 percent increase from a year earlier. The U.S. accounted for about 70 percent of those sales, VASEP said.
Over the summer, tilapia overtook
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Thai agribusiness conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) has filed a lawsuit against the head of a civil society group over his allegations that its aquaculture operations caused the spread of invasive blackchin tilapia in Thailand’s waterways.
The case targets Witoon Lianchamroon, secretary-general of BioThai, who in a July 2024 seminar linked CP Foods’ Yi San Aquatic Research Center in Samut Songkhram province to the
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Vietnam’s pangasius exports have increased so far in 2025, fueled by surging demand from countries in South America, the ASEAN region, and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), even as shipments to China and the U.S. weakened.
Vietnam’s pangasius sales in August increased 5 percent year-over-year to USD 200 million (EUR 170.5 million). The value in the first eight months of 2025 reached
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The Indonesian government has confirmed traces of radioactive Cesium-137 (Cs-137) detected in shrimp products were linked to a steel factory in an industrial zone in Banten province, but said the incident has not affected the integrity of the country’s seafood supply chain or exports.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration first issued an advisory that it detected Cs-137 in a shipping container at the ports of Los Angeles, Houston,
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Vietnam has asked the U.S. to review a decision that would block imports of seafood caught from 12 Vietnamese fisheries starting 1 January 2026, saying the move threatens exports and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of the country’s fishermen and factory workers.
NOAA informed Vietnam’s Directorate of Fisheries on 26 August that the fishing methods used in several of Vietnam’s fisheries were not deemed
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The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ruled that commercial fishing vessels are allowed to operate within the nation’s nearshore municipal waters.
In response, the country’s tuna industry and environmental groups are voicing concern that the ruling could threaten international sustainability certifications and, therefore, hurt exports.
The case stems back to October 2023, when the Mercidar Fishing Corporation filed a petition that
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