The 9th Meeting of ASEAN Shrimp Alliance (ASA)
(8/7/2019 12:00:00 AM)
In the morning of June 24, 2019, in Da Nang City, the 9th
Meeting of ASEAN Shrimp Alliance – ASA was held. This was the opening
conference in the series of ASEAN conferences hosted by Vietnam from
June 24 – 29, 2019.
Attending the Meeting, there were representatives of ASEAN member
countries and representatives of international organizations. At this
Meeting, participants will discuss issues related to the objectives set
out in the development of the ASA as well as the roadmap and status of
those targets such as the Status - Construction and implementation plans
of ASEAN Shrimp GAP, Production and trend of shrimp market in Indian
market, Shrimp diseases and Current situation, solutions, orientation
for shrimp disease warning mechanism in the region, Overview of shrimp
production at Southeast Asia, etc.
Shrimp farming has become one of the fastest growing fishery
industries in Southeast Asia in the past 30 years. Shrimp not only
contributes to the region's food security but also becomes one of the
important livelihoods of farmers. Going with the general trend of
regional fisheries, shrimp farming is still mainly in small-scale farms,
with improvements in form and technology being applied more and more
widely. However, along with the strong development of the shrimp
industry, diseases are also becoming a major threat to the development
of the industry. In addition, environmental issues, natural resources
and climate change, production costs, consumer markets (trade and
technical barriers in export markets) are also increasingly impacting
the development of the industry and posing challenges for countries in
the region to work together to resolve.
The ASEAN Shrimp Alliance (ASA) was founded to develop a market
information sharing mechanism to unify the orientation of shrimp product
development across the region and at the same time to build uniform
standards for the regional shrimp industry applied to all ASEAN member
states as well as to establish a regional mechanism to cope with
non-tariff barriers imposed by shrimp importing countries, to develop a
dialogue and exchange information mechanism for shrimp industry
stakeholders in the region and the world to promote the integration and
development of the shrimp industry in the ASEAN region.
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