Ngoc Hung
In a restructuring plan to increase the seafood industry’s added value and ensure its sustainable development, the ministry has set the target to develop the industry in a sustainable way. Therefore, one of the targets of the plan is to reduce the onshore fishing volume and increase the offshore volume.
According to the plan, the fishing volume will be kept stable at 2.4-2.6 million tons annually by 2020 with the onshore volume being lowered to 0.8-0.87 million tons annually from the current 1.2 million tons. Meanwhile, the offshore fishing volume will be raised from one million tons annually to 1.4-1.53 million tons as per the plan.
There are a total of some 130,000 fishing boats nationwide, which will then be cut down to around 110,000 boats in the next seven years, the ministry reports. As a breakdown, the number of fishing boats of less than 20 CV will be reduced to 34.5% from 49% while that of fishing boats of over 90 CV will be raised from 20.7% to 27.3% and that of 20-90 CV will be increased to 38.2% from 30.4%.
At the same time, it is also necessary to make changes to exploiting activities to focus on catching high-value seafood products like shrimp, cuttlefish, octopus and mackerel as well as applying new technologies to mitigate after-harvest losses from the current level of 20% to 10% in 2020.
Đăng ký: VietNam News