Top 10 SeafoodSource commentaries of 2016

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Approximately 30 percent of pangasius growing in ponds along the banks of the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam were killed due to drought, reported SeafoodSource Contributing Editor Mike Urch. 

The drought was one of the worst Vietnam has experienced in 90 years, and had destroyed more than 4,500 hectares of seafood farms, according to a report in Thanh Nien News.

“The drought, and seawater intrusion in the Mekong Delta, is sapping Vietnam’s economy,” wrote Urch. “In addition to fish and shrimp, the country is a major global exporter of rice, coffee and pepper. Preliminary losses for the crops damaged stand at VND 5.57 trillion (USD 249 million, EUR 221 million), according to a Vietnamese government report, of which nearly 70 percent occurred in the Mekong Delta, which supplies 60 percent of Vietnam’s shrimp and fish as well as half of the country’s rice, according to Reuters.”

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