Marine aquaculture plays a particularly important role in developing the marine economy, aiming to turn our country into a strong marine nation. However, the development of Vietnam's marine aquaculture industry needs to be in the direction of reducing emissions and green growth, in accordance with Vietnam's international commitments.
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| Vietnam has many advantages to develop marine farming. |
Marine farming must be associated with environmental protection.
In recent times, the Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have issued a number of policies and programs to encourage and promote marine farming. Thanks to this, the marine farming industry has been initially formed in Vietnam, such as infrastructure for seed production areas, concentrated farming areas, supporting industries, processing industries, and developing consumer markets...
From a local perspective, Mr. Nguyen Minh Son - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Quang Ninh province said that Quang Ninh is one of the localities possessing many available strengths to develop the marine economy and fisheries with more than 2,000 large and small islands, a 250 km long coastline running from Mong Cai to Quang Yen, 40,000 hectares of tidal flats, over 20,000 hectares of bays and straits... Up to now, Quang Ninh's marine aquaculture industry has achieved certain results. In 2023, the total aquaculture area will reach 42,292 hectares; of which: inland farming will reach 32,092 hectares, marine farming will reach 10,200 hectares.
According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Son, the highest goal of the locality is to sustainably develop the marine aquaculture industry, attract investment and create new products for marine tourism, taking advantage of the rich resources that the province possesses. Quang Ninh has identified the province's advantages in developing the marine aquaculture industry, with the policy of avoiding conflicts with the tourism industry but instead creating added value; using environmentally friendly materials and applying higher standards for marine aquaculture activities. Quang Ninh has planned aquaculture for each village. "All marine aquaculture households are reviewed. From there, households planning to change their occupation can be assigned a marine area to switch from exploitation to aquaculture," Mr. Nguyen Minh Son shared.
Mr. Tran Dinh Luan - Director of the Department of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that marine aquaculture plays a particularly important role in developing the marine economy, aiming to turn our country into a strong marine nation, rich from the sea in the century of seas and oceans. "The potential and advantages for developing marine aquaculture in our country are there. But to fly far, to create a strongly developing ecosystem, we still have many difficulties that need to be resolved, especially in terms of technology and policy mechanisms in licensing sea surface allocation".
No locality has been able to transfer the sea area.
Vietnam has three sides bordering the sea, nature has given many advantages to develop the marine economy. However, the development of marine aquaculture in our country still faces many limitations due to the lack of policy mechanisms, science and technology; issues such as production linkage, investment resources and the issue of granting codes for farming areas to serve sustainable marine aquaculture development have not been thoroughly resolved.
Sharing about this issue, Mr. Nguyen Huu Dung - Chairman of the Vietnam Marine Aquaculture Association said that one of the main difficulties that marine aquaculture enterprises are currently facing is that up to now, no locality has been able to hand over sea areas to enterprises and fishermen for management. "This is a major barrier, making it difficult for enterprises to invest in this field due to licensing and legal issues. Many enterprises have faced difficulties for many years," Mr. Dung shared.
Along with that, the source of specialized human resources for the marine aquaculture industry is still limited due to the lack of specialized training in marine aquaculture. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has not yet had a program to encourage coastal people to access high technology. The lack of regulations and standards on marine aquaculture has caused no units to register marine farms. On the other hand, the risks in marine aquaculture are high but there is currently no insurance for this field, so many businesses are hesitant and have not committed to the sustainable marine aquaculture industry. This reality shows that attracting investment for the marine aquaculture industry still faces many challenges, requiring close coordination between ministries and branches as well as flexible and effective policy solutions from local management levels.
According to Mr. Tran Dinh Luan, the biggest bottleneck of the marine aquaculture industry is bringing the scale of seed production into the industry. Therefore, it is necessary to combine institutes and schools with the participation of enterprises to research and deploy seeds on a larger scale. In addition, cooperation is needed to research environmentally friendly materials, associated with low emissions, ensuring the lowest feed conversion ratio discharged into the environment as well as integrating objects in the circulation, nutritional cycle... Mr. Luan believes that the space for aquaculture development should not be limited by "highlighted" planning but needs to go beyond boundaries, integrating with other economic sectors such as tourism.
Chairman of the Vietnam Marine Aquaculture Association Nguyen Huu Dung shared that in Norway, businesses have to bid for marine farming areas and even have to put the sea as financial collateral for marine farming. Thus, perhaps Vietnam needs to consider the suitability of this approach, thereby creating a development environment for the marine farming industry.
Regarding the issue of insurance policies for the marine farming industry, Mr. Tran Dinh Luan said that our country has piloted shrimp and pangasius insurance. In the long term, this will be the foundation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and related ministries and sectors to create conditions for marine farming enterprises to register for suitable insurance packages.
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