In 11 July morning, when doing business with Head of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Can Tho City, Vice President of VASEP and President of Freshwater Fish Committee Ngo Phuoc Hau showed that: According to preliminary statistics, production capacity of export Pangasius processing enterprises in Can Tho City was 1,500 – 1,800 tons/day, in An Giang was 1,200 tons/day.

In the second administrative consideration, there was a final result about the anti-dumping tax of export shrimp from India, Brazil and Ecuador to US. The shrimp anti-dumping tax for India decreased to 1.69%.

In the first 6 months of 2008, Fimex VN exported over 2,500 MT of Aquatic Product, which is approximately equal to the same period in 2007, but the export turnover decreased 18% over the same period last year. The reason is Vannamei appeared in enterprise’s export structure with lower value.

According to customs of Japan, in April 2008 the country imported approximately 15,152.8 tons of frozen shrimp (HLSO or HOSO) valued 13,343.1 million JPY, CIF (about 130.2 million USD) with the average price of 881 JPY/kg (about 8.59 USD/kg CIF Japan).

Union Forsea Corporation, a professional B2B seafood company, has gone into an official collaboration with Vietfish Corporation on Monday, 7 July 2008. Union Forsea Corporation was set up as a seafood company in 1999 and its official website www.fishone.com has been the no.1 seafood site in Korea that offering updated seafood information such as news, market prices, buying and selling data, and current fishing conditions etc. to worldwide visitors.

From January to May 2008, USA has imported 196,800 tons of shrimp (1.34 billion USD) 0.8% quantity more and 2.2% value less than the same period last year. Thailand has exported the highest quantity of shrimp (type: 15-20), from 329,176 tons (3.1 millions USD) to 997,552 tons (9,2 million USD). Vietnam and Indonesia have also increasing two times the shrimp export volume of this size to the US.