On the morning of January 17, in Van Don district, the Provincial People's Committee held a conference to deploy a number of key contents of marine aquaculture in 2025 in the province. Comrade Nghiem Xuan Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.
At the conference, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Quang Ninh announced the decision of the Provincial People's Committee on assigning the decision on the right to use the sea area to Trung Nam Fisheries Cooperative with a scale of 47.98 hectares at the location of 2 communes of Ban Sen and Dong Xa, Van Don district. The term of use is until December 31, 2050. The form of payment for using the sea area is annually at the rate of 7.5 million VND/ha/year. The purpose of using the sea area is for aquaculture at sea. This is the first aquaculture cooperative in the province to be granted the decision on the right to use the sea area by the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province according to Decree 11/2021/ND-CP dated February 10, 2021.
Currently, the whole province has 45,146 hectares of sea area integrated with marine aquaculture planning, of which the area within 03 nautical miles is 23,875 hectares. The area from 03 to 06 nautical miles is 13,031 hectares and the area outside 06 nautical miles is 8,240 hectares.
Regarding the results of licensing for marine aquaculture to date, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has received and appraised 10 dossiers of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports of cooperatives and enterprises, submitted to the Provincial People's Committee to issue 01 decision approving the environmental impact assessment; received 10 dossiers of consultation during the implementation of the environmental impact assessment. The licensing progress is under the authority of the province, up to now, there are 83 organizations proposing related to the implementation of marine aquaculture projects and have currently granted a license to assign the decision on the right to use the sea area to Trung Nam Fisheries Cooperative.
Regarding the local authority, up to now, 5/9 localities in the province, including Quang Yen, Cam Pha, Van Don, Hai Ha, Dam Ha, have assigned sea areas to individuals under the authority of the district-level People's Committee with a total of 470 individuals, with a total area of 288.9 hectares. Temporarily handing over the sea area boundary to restore production after the storm to a total of 1,208 individuals with an area of 8,588.76 hectares.
To speed up the licensing process for the right to use sea areas for aquaculture, at the conference, individuals and organizations requested the Provincial People's Committee, relevant departments, branches and coastal localities to consider shortening the licensing process, assessing environmental impacts as well as increasing the area allocated for fish cage farming for households; requesting the province to consider exempting or reducing water surface fees for households for 3 years to restore production activities after storm No. 3. In addition to water surface planning, it is also necessary to plan farming areas to ensure long-term development of marine aquaculture...
Concluding the conference, Mr. Nghiem Xuan Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested: After the decision to assign the right to use the sea area to the first Trung Nam Fisheries Cooperative of the province, immediately after that, the two Departments of Agriculture & Rural Development and Natural Resources & Environment agreed to issue standard guidance documents and localities need to focus on solving and creating fundamental changes in sea allocation for aquaculture for organizations that propose to apply for licenses to be completed in the first quarter of 2025.
For the next group of documents, households, cooperatives and enterprises will also proactively complete related procedures for the province to appraise and grant licenses for sea area allocation in the second quarter of 2025. People's Committees of coastal localities will review, complete and adjust the sea area allocation plan to ensure a reasonable balance between traffic and actual farming area to ensure maximum convenience for people, cooperatives and enterprises. The comrade assigned the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to complete the farming material plan to ensure long-term stability and increase resilience to climate change.
During the program, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee visited and presented gifts to aquaculture households in Cai Rong town and Ha Long commune of Van Don district.
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