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Seafood export companies complain that they are facing big obstacles with the EU’s IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing), which took effect January 1, 2010.
Vietnam’s pangasius will now find its place in the catfish category of the United States.
Vietnam’s white-leg shrimp is favourite for export business as it has favourable conditions for farming and high demand abroad
American consumer will have to wait for Vietnamese pangasius as its inspection falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Vietnam’s tra and basa fish has a major big market in Russia as the country become top importer of the same.
Last year Vietnam seafood export value has gone down a decrease of 5.7 percent compared with 2008.
Vietnam has registered huge export of tune to US market in 2009, confirms Department of Customs.
The independent certification of DKSH’s Vietnamese Black Tiger shrimps has paved the way for a wider presence of the Friend of the Sea ecolabel in Switzerland, being the logo now used by the four main Swiss wholesalers.
The demand of the Vietnamese seafood products is so high that it wins gold medal at the American Maters if Taste competition.
In the first eleven months of 2009 the exports of whiteleg shrimp has risen to the value of US$1.5 billion.
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