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Chilean salmon-farming firm AquaChile is aiming to increase its share of Vietnam’s frozen salmon market to roughly 40 percent from its currently estimated 30 percent share over the next one to three years, as rising demand and growing Chilean production support further expansion in the country. Vietnam’s salmon market has been growing by around 15 percent to 20 percent annually, AquaChile Sales Manager Daniel Do Minh told SeafoodSource… Read More

CP Vietnam, a subsidiary of Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group, opened a VND 1.7 trillion (USD 66.1 million, EUR 57.3 million) aquafeed facility in Vietnam's Ca Mau province in early August, aiming to expand its regional supply footprint. The 18-hectare Ca Mau Aqua Feedmill has a designed annual capacity of 124,800 metric tons (MT), bringing CP Vietnam's total aquafeed production capacity in the country to more than 650,000 MT per year across… Read More

The Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), an agency under the country’s Department of Agriculture, has announced it will petition the Philippines Supreme Court to review its recent ruling that voided mandatory commercial vessel tracking. BFAR issued Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 266 in 2020, which required all commercial fishing operators to equip their vessels with satellite tracking and electronic reporting… Read More

Bangkok, Thailand-based food conglomerate Thai Union posted modest sales growth in the second quarter of 2026, while its gross profit margin hit an all-time high. The company’s Q2 sales rose 1.4 percent year over year to THB 33.9 billion (USD 1 billion, EUR 880 million), while its organic sales similarly increased 1.5 percent, giving Thai Union its fourth consecutive quarter of organic sales growth. The firm attributed this growth to steady… Read More

The Philippines government is imposing stricter controls on the nation’s blue swimming crab fisheries to meet U.S. standards. Last year, NOAA Fisheries determined 240 foreign fisheries did not meet U.S. requirements under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), banning products from those fisheries from entering the U.S.  After a lawsuit led the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to review its MMPA comparability findings for… Read More

The global climate weather pattern El Niño is expected to intensify marine heatwaves and, as a result, sharply reduce the availability of commercially important stocks such as oil sardines and mackerel next year. Speaking at the National Fish Farmers Day event at the Indian Central Marine Research Institute (CMFRI) on 10 July, CMFRI Director Grinson George said El Niño-related warming is expected to increase from October to December of this… Read More

Malaysia and Thailand are in talks to resolve a seafood trade dispute that arose in early June, with both nations working to secure a technical solution that supports market access while maintaining biosecurity, food safety, and aquatic animal health standards. Effective 1 June, Malaysia suspended imports of five Thai shrimp species and imposed strict testing mandates on sea bass from Thailand. According to The Nation, Malaysian authorities said… Read More

Norway has welcomed the successful conclusion of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Vietnam and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which secured duty-free exports of Norwegian salmon to the Southeast Asian nation. "The agreement will be particularly important for the seafood industry, the maritime sector, and other Norwegian export industries. Vietnam is a large and growing market, and it will help strengthen the… Read More

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has formally requested urgent government intervention to address a proposed Brazilian import ban on Vietnamese tilapia, which continues a multiyear saga of on-again, off-again bans Brazil has placed on Vietnamese seafood exports. In 2024, Brazil halted all tilapia imports from Vietnam, pending a review of health protocols aiming to ease local industry concern on health risks,… Read More

India-based fish-farming firm Khyber Aquaculture has opened a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) trout facility in Kashmir. The facility is located on an 8-acre site beside the Sindh River in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district and will include hatchery, grow-out, processing, and packaging facilities. The facility was built at a cost of more than INR 1 billion (USD 10.5 million, EUR 9.2 million), and Khyber has plans to raise annual production… Read More