VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has objected to the World Wide Fund's decision to transfer tra catfish to the red from the yellow list in its latest guides.

Vietnamese pangasius exporters are concerned European sales may be hurt after a guide by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) advised consumers not to buy the fish.

Dated 08.26.2010, a meeting of the Bilateral Commission of Vietnam - Dutch coordinate State - Private (referred to as the Committee PPP) in the field of fisheries was held in The Hague, Netherlands bringing new perspectives in the development of Vietnam's fisheries. Around this content, TSVN has a meeting with Mr. Nguyen Tu Cuong, member of the Standing Committee of Fisheries of Vietnam, Director of Technology Transfer Center and the Vietnam Fisheries Service (Fites).

The European customers care about origin of seafoods. They want to know in the time of raising Pangasius, whether the drug leaves the residue on seafoods

The specific regulations to deploy to carry out the project of developing to produce and to comsume pangasius at the Mekong River Delta up to 2020 have been promulgated early.

On December 14th 2009, in HaNoi, the Agriculture and rural development ministry and the Vietnam seafood enterprises had a meeting with Mr.John Connelly – president of National Fisheries Institute of America ( NFI ) about controling the quality of seafood when exporting to America