Survey and Information Collection on Surimi Industry and catch data in Vietnam, 12-17 June 2006 The mission is aim to evaluate the present status of surimi industry and potential of fisheries resources of some economically important species as surimi raw materials in Vietnam. 1. Member of the mission 1. Ms. Penjan Laongmanee Head, Spatial Information Technology Unit, TD 2. Ms. Siriporn Pangsorn Spatial Information Technology researcher, TD 3. Dr. Yoshinobu Konishi Deputy Chief, MFRDMD 4. Mr. Yeap Soon Eong Head, Fish Processing Technology Branch,MFRD 5. Dr. Du Van Nam Specialist, Ministry of Fisheries, Department of Science and Technology, Vietnam 6. Dr. Nguyen Van Le Chief, Post-Harvest Technological Department, Research Institute for Marine Fisheries, Vietnam 7. Mr. Dao Trong Hieu Researcher, Post-Harvest Research Department, Research Institute for Marine Fisheries, Vietnam 2. Schedule 12 June 06 (Mon) - Arrived Hanoi - Working team discussed about survey schedule - Meeting with collecting existing information concerning to surimi factory and Surimi raw material in Vietnam Dr. Vu Van Trieu at Ministry of Fisheries, Department of Science and Technology 13 June 06 (Tue) - Visited Research Institute of Marine Fisheries (RIMF) in HaiPhong and discussed with Dr. Nguyen Long (Deputy Director of RIMF)for collecting existing information concerning to surimi factory and Surimi raw material in Vietnam - Visited Viet Truong, a Surimi factory in HaiPhong 14 June 06 (Wed) - Visited a DANIFOODS, a Surimi factory in DaNang - Visited fishing port in DaNang 15 June 06 (Thu) - Visited Tien Dat,a Surimi factory in Vung Tau 16 June 06 (Fri) - Visited BASEAFOOD, a Surimi factory in Vung Tau - Visited COIMEX, a Surimi factory in Vung Tau - Visited fishing port 17 Jun 06 (Sat) - Leaved from Vietnam
3. Existing information During visiting MOFI and RIMP, Dr. Vu Van Trieu and Dr. Nguyen Long, said that fishery statistic of Vietnam is not well develop. Dr. Nguyen Long advised to take data from website: http://www.fistenet.gov.vn/, other than that SEAFDEC has to send official letter to request data. Dr. Vu Van Trieu and Dr. Nguyen Long welcome SEAFDEC team to conduct and briefed for overview information of Surimi industry in Vietnam. Currently, there are 11 company produce surimi. Maybe only 7-8 company is in active. Most of them faced problem of not enough supply of raw material and quality of raw material. Some factory confusing between mince fish and surimi, therefore they also report mince fish as surimi. Surimi industry in the southern part of Vietnam is bigger than in the north esspacially in Voung Tau which has 5-6 surimi plant. Current use fish species for Surimi is yellow conger pike, tread fin bream, lizard fish, Croaker and mix fish. New species that Vietnam had try to produce surimi is hammer head shark, Sardinella and flying fish. In Vietnam, National Fisheries Inspection and Quality Assurance Center (Nafiqacen) of the Ministry of Fisheries is the authority for verifying and certifying compliance of fishery and aquaculture products of exported fishery product. Visit MOFI Visit RIMP 4. Profile of visited company Viet Truong Co.,LTD Vinh Niem Industrial Park, Le Chan Dis, HaiPhong City Contact person: Ngo Viet Truong (Director) Viettruongco.ltd@hn.vnn.vn Constrain: Market, the company just started surimi line in May 2006. The company stills has a few customers. Seafood Processing including Surimi and import- export, Main product is frozen fish and squid Source of Raw mat: From their own three fishing vessel Japan, Korea
DANIFOODS (D&N Foods Processing CO., LTD) (Latitude 16_06.235 N, Longitude 108_14.749 E) 62 Yet Kieu St, Danang City Contact person: Nguyen Van Thuong (Manager of Trading Dept) ngvanthuong@vnn.vn Constrain: - Discontinuous supply of raw material - Quality of raw material (from long distance of transportation) Surimi and Surimi base product Source of raw material: Contractor at HaiPhong (for tread fin bream), Danang (for lizard fish) and Southern part of Vietnam (for conger pike) Market : Japan, Thailand, China, New Zealand Tien Dat Seafood Processing Co.,Ltd (Latitude 10_29.80 N, Longitude 107_05.97 E) Lang Cat Hamlet, Tan Hai Commune, Tan Thanh District, BR- Vung Tau Province Contact person: Nguyen Thanh Dat (Planing Manager) seafood@hcm.vnn.vn Constrain: Lack of raw material Seafood processing Source of raw material: From contractor in Vung Tau, Kien Giang, Tien Giang and Binh Thuan (From Southern of Vietnam) Japan, Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia
BASEAFOOD Joint Stock Company (BARIA-VUNGTAU Seafood Processing and Import- Export Joint Stock Company) (Latitude 10_21.688 N, Longitude 107_05.295 E) 460 Truong Cong Dinh St., Vung Tau City, Baria-Vungtau Province Contact person: Pham Kim Dien (Vice Director) baseafoodvn@vnn.vn Constrain: Lack of raw material Seafood processing (There are 5 factory; no.1 and 4 in Baria Town, no.2 in Vungtau city, no. 3 in Phuoc Hai Village, Dat Do District, no.5 in Long hai Town, Long Dien District. Factory no.2 and 3 produce Surimi) Source of raw material: Contractor in the southern part of Vietnam EU, Japan, Korea (main), Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Mexico
COIMEX (Condao Seaproducts and Import Export Company) (Latitude 10_26.981 N, Longitude 107_10.416 E) 1738 30/4 St., Vung Tau City, Baria-Vungtau province Contact person: Nguyen The Hung thehung@coimexvn.com Constrain: Lack of raw material Surimi and Surimi base product, Fish source factory Source of raw material: Southern Part of Vietnam Japan, EU, USA, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, Korea 5. Visit fishing port Our team had visited fishing port and two landed site; in Danang and Vong Tau province. Thuan Phuoc fishing port (Latitude 16_05.063 N, Longitude 108_13.398 E) in Danang There are both small scale and commercial scale fishing boat landed their catch here. Some surimi raw material was also observed.
Local landed site for small fishing boat (Latitude 15_52.570 N, Longitude 108_19.968 E) in Danang Province Local landed site for small fishing boat at Vung Tau beach Vung Tau Cat Lo fishing port (Latitude 10_24.780 N, Longitude 107_07.893 E) This is the biggest fishing port in Vietnam. Most of landed fish came from commercial fishing boat. Low quality of landed fish was observed. Bottom trawl fishing boat spent about 3 month for each trip with poor fish handing technique, therefore most of the catch is low quality. How ever, our team visited port at noon, the good quality of fish may land in the early morning which is general working period of fishing port. This fishing port has fish meal plant at the port, huge volume of landed fish here directly sent to this fish meal plant.