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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Vietnam managed to boost its shrimp sales to China in November 2022, even as it faced decreases in its exports to other most of its other major markets, according to Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
VASEP did not provide an explanation for the increase, though it said Chinese authorities have reportedly moved to ease pandemic-related restrictions since early December, with imported cargoes no longer being
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Indonesia has named an ambitious goal for its marine exports in 2023, targting a 20 percent increase in value.
Tuna, cuttlefish, blue swimming crab, and octopus are the country’s key wild-caught species, while shrimp, crab, and seaweed are its major aquaculture products.
Indonesia aims to establish 136 aquaculture villages by the end of the year after finishing building six in 2021. Trenggono said a number of the villages
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Manila, Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved separate funds worth total USD 166 million (EUR 155.8 million) to help drive sustainable development of the seafood sector in Indonesia and Cambodia.
ADB announced on 15 December it will provide a USD 93 million (EUR 87.3 million) loan to support smallholder shrimp farming in seven provinces in Indonesia. The funding is for the Infrastructure Improvement for Shrimp
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Thailand is expected to produce 300,000 metric tons (MT) of shrimp in 2023, up 7.1 percent from the estimated 280,000 MT in 2022, according to Thai Shrimp Associaiton President Ekapoj Yodpinit said.
Prolonged bouts with shrimp diseases and unfavorable weather conditions hurt the industry in 2022, but will not set the industry back significantly in 2023, Yodpinit said.
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Singapore-based Barramundi Group announced 27 December, 2022, it has agreed to a strategic partnership with Wild Ocean Australia on its Australia business.
Following the partnership with Wild Ocean, Barramundi Group will continue to develop the “Kimberley Ocean Barramundi Project,” which includes MPA’s 13 seawater sites that will be able to produce 30,000 metric tons (MT) per year of barramundi, the company
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Vietnam is making a big push to rid itself of the European Union’s yellow card, a trade warning first issued in October 2017 after the European Commission decided the Southeast Asian nation had not done enough to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
The E.U. is now in the process of conducting a review of Vietnam’s fisheries-related policies to determine whether to rescind the yellow card and resume normal
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The Meloy Fund, a U.S.-based impact investment fund, announced 6 December, 2022 it has invested in JAM Seafoods, a seafood-processing company promoting sustainable fisheries in the Philippines.
Meloy Fund was founded in 2016 to conduct impact investment supporting sustainable coastal fisheries in Indonesia and the Philippines.
The fund said its latest investment, the value of which has not been revealed, will stimulate
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Chennai, India-based aquaculture technology platform Aquaconnect has raised USD 15 million (EUR 14 million) in a Series A funding round to fuel its business expansion.
The round was led by India’s Lok Capital and participated in by Louis Dreyfus Company Ventures, Suneight Investment, and existing investors such as Omnivore, Rebright Partners, Flourish Ventures, HATCH, and others.
The funds will be allocated towards improving
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Vietnam has surpassed USD 10 billion (EUR 9.4 billion) in seafood exports thus far in 2022, reaching an all-time high for the country, thanks to a post-Covid recovery in global demand.
But high global inflation and an uncertain Chinese market have the country’s seafood executives anxious about a possible downturn.
Vietnam took in USD 10.17 billion (EUR 9.57 billion) from its seafood exports between January and November 2022, a 27.4 percent
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Thai Union’s subsidiary i-Tail Corporation (ITC) has set up new companies in China and the Netherlands to oversee sales of the company’s pet food and pet-related products in the two markets.
The i-Tail (Shanghai) Co. will develop its private labels to expand sales of pet food and pet-related products in China and devleop new opportunities to invest in the petcare business in the country, according to a Thai Union press release.
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