Basa — Born in the Mekong

A Basa catfish swimming in the sunlit water of the Mekong

01A SPECIAL FISH

Not every fish is easy to farm.
Basa is one of them.

Native to the Mekong, Basa is a unique species with demanding breeding and farming requirements — and a flavour that has no substitute.

Born in the Mekong RARE BY NATURE. RAISED WITH PURPOSE. PANGASIUS BOCOURTI SCROLL

Aerial view of the farming zone: pond grid either side of a Mekong canal

02WE TOOK THE CHALLENGE

Broodstock selected over generations. Hatchery conditions held steady through the fry's most fragile weeks. Engineers in the ponds every day, not once a season.

Difficult to breed. Challenging to raise. Worth protecting.

Through years of experience, research and dedication, we built a farming model for Basa that the species can live with — and that the Mekong can carry.

Basa fingerlings crowding a hatchery basin — FINGERLINGS

Paddlewheel aerators driving oxygen across a stocked pond — AERATION

Crew lifting a basket of fish at harvest — HARVEST

03FROM BREAKTHROUGH TO SUSTAINABILITY

Seven stages, one continuous chain — from the parent fish to the carton that leaves the plant.

We didn't just learn how to raise Basa. We learned how to raise it responsibly.

ORIGIN

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Genetics & broodstock

Parent fish selected and improved generation after generation for health, not just growth.

Hatchery

Controlled spawning, then close care through the fry's most fragile first weeks.

GROW-OUT

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Responsible feed

Certified, traceable feed. No growth-promoting antibiotics at any stage.

Farming

Low-density ponds along the Mekong, stocked and monitored to a written plan.

Fish welfare & water

Oxygen, water exchange and fish health measured daily — recorded, not estimated.

TO MARKET

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Processing

Hours from pond to plant, with an unbroken cold chain and audited hygiene.

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Full traceability

Every carton leads back to its pond, its feed lot and its parent stock.

Technicians working nursery nets in a conservation pond

04A LIVING GENE BANK

Rare Mekong species are held, studied and bred here — not displayed, but kept alive as working broodstock.

We keep the rare ones alive.

Navicorp runs a conservation area for rare and threatened Mekong fish, maintaining living broodstock of species that are disappearing from the river itself.

Most of them stay exactly where they are: protected, studied, bred in small numbers. Basa is the one we carried all the way — from a difficult species in the gene bank to industrial-scale farming, at a quality the wild fish would recognise.

Protected, then proven CONSERVATION AREA LIVING BROODSTOCK PANGASIUS BOCOURTI

The tail of a Basa breaking the surface of the Mekong at sunrise — Basa, responsibly raised in the Mekong.

05THE FUTURE OF BASA

One species, one delta, one company accountable for every stage of it.

Preserving a species. Creating a future.

From the delta to tables in Rotterdam, Seoul and Los Angeles — and the whole record travels with the fish.

THE PRODUCERNavicorp

Navicorp breeds, farms, processes and exports Basa from the Mekong Delta. Broodstock, hatchery, ponds, feed and plant sit inside one company, which is why every carton can be read back through all seven stages.

Visitors on the pontoon over a Navicorp pond — OPEN TO VISITORS

A delegation walking the dykes of the farm — WALKED, NOT DESCRIBED

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A pan-seared Basa fillet plated with herbs and greens on a restaurant table