Australia media highlights Vietnamese seafood
(VOV) -Australian Television ABC recently featured a programme accentuating the high-quality of aquaculture breeding farms and aquatic products in Vietnam.
In it, Australian experts and importers were quoted as saying that Vietnamese seafood, including shrimp and tra fish, are favoured in Australia and that demand is on the rise.
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At present, Vietnamese tra fish is the second best seller in the Australian market, just behind Tasmanian Atlantic tuna, the programme reported.
The high-quality of Vietnamese aquatic products was attributed to good breeding models and processing chains, contributing to large seafood exporters ranking Vietnam among those providing the best products in Australia.
“Vietnamese products have high nutrition and quality, meeting international sanitation requirements”, Norman Grant, Chairman of the Seafood Importers Association of Australia (SIAA), commented.
Last year, Australia imported US$160 million worth of Vietnamese seafood and the figure is expected to exceed US$200 million in 2014.