Vietnam's pangasius production is looking back at a somewhat "strange year," Jose Gonzalez Vecino, senior scientist at Ewos Innovation, told the audience at the whitefish session at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF) in Bergen last week.
The industry today is worth around $1.56 billion (€1.4 billion), producing 1.1 million metric tons last year. However, value declined by 11 percent throughout 2015, he said.
The biggest challenges?
There are four, Gonzalez Vecino said, including trade barriers, unhealthy competition among pangasius producers which compromises quality, volatile exchange rates and competition with other fish species such as pollock, cod, hake, tilapia and haddock.
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