Bangkok, Thailand-based seafood trader Siam Canadian Group has seen a year-on-year decline in material vannamei prices in Vietnam, the company said in a market update released on 4 June

Thailand-based seafood trader Siam Canadian Group is working to deliver cargoes from Vietnam for its customers in other countries, despite the global outbreak of COVID-19, the company’s country manager for Vietnam, Bowie Leung, told SeafoodSource this week. Siam Canadian resumed its operations in Vietnam on 23 April following a period of ... Read More

Gulkin told SeafoodSource via email on 27 April many farmers across most shrimp-producing countries are generally not keen to stock ponds due to the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, The adverse impacts from the pandemic are driving farmers in India, Thailand, Indonesia and others to seed “very conservatively,” he ... Read More

Overall, shrimp production in Asia will increase by 5 to 10 percent this year compared to 2016, but there will continue to be some important anomalies in key production regions