In 2022, our country’s seafood export won big and set a historical record when the turnover reached nearly 11 billion USD, up 23% compared to 2021.
Worth mentioning, in the export basket of aquatic products, in addition to the main product lines such as shrimp, pangasius, tuna, and frozen fish with export turnover of over 1 billion USD, fish cakes and dried fish also have an export turnover of over 1 billion USD. bring in a large source of foreign currency.
Statistics show that Vietnam exported about 281,000 tons of dried fish and fish cakes, earning nearly 737 million USD, accounting for 6.8% of the total value of seafood exports in 2022.
Particularly, the export of dried fish increased by 41.3% in volume and 31.7% in value compared to 2021.
Truong Dinh Hoe – General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers – said that the main customers of Vietnam’s dried fish and fish cakes products include: Japan, Korea, Russia, and Thailand. Lan and China. In which, dried fish is exported a lot to Korea, Russia and China; And fish cakes are mainly exported to Japan, Korea, Thailand…
According to the Import-Export Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), in 2022, in the context of high inflation, aquatic products that are easy to prepare at home, convenient, easy to store and have an appropriate price are the consumer trend. and seafood imports in most markets. This is also one of the reasons for Vietnam’s seafood products to have a strong increase in export turnover.
The US spends a lot of money buying food, Vietnam has a billion-dollar fish. The US is the biggest customer, spending a lot of money to buy Vietnamese tuna. As a result, tuna exports increased sharply, becoming the next item bringing in Vietnam’s next 1 billion USD.