Quang Yen (Quang Ninh): Prioritizing creating conditions for people to restore aquaculture

Authorities are always present to promptly support people after the storm.

Heavy damage

Since the storm, Mr. Nguyen Van Hung, Thong Nhat 2 area, Tan An ward, has been going to sea every day to pull the net, partly to "pick up" the remaining grouper fish stuck in the net, partly to find a way to salvage the dozens of fish cages of his family. With more than 30 grouper cages, his family planned to harvest them for sale near Tet, but unexpectedly they were swept away by the storm.

Mr. Hung sadly lost about 3,000 grouper fish, estimated at about 3 billion VND. Before the storm, his family had just planted about 50 thousand grouper fish, with a capital of about 2 billion VND. All about 5 billion VND went with the waves. What was left was fishing gear sunk to the bottom of the sea that had to be salvaged, and debts that he did not know how to pay.

In the same situation, Mr. Doan Trung Manh's family in Yen Hai ward raised 200,000 oysters and mussels in 18 cages and rafts with a total investment of nearly 8 billion VND. This is the capital that Mr. Manh saved up for half his life. However, the storm No. 3 passed through with its terrible destruction, sweeping away 90% of the family's investment assets.

“After nearly 10 years of focusing on business, now there is nothing left, everything is gone. Since the storm, I have been relying on relatives and friends to help me find assets to see if I can salvage anything, then hire workers to reinforce the rafts, cut off the oyster ropes, collect plastic buoys so that when we stabilize here, we can resume production,” Mr. Manh confided.

Many aquaculture households have lost almost everything.

In fact, about 238 aquaculture facilities were damaged, 800 oyster rafts, 1,700 fish cages of households in Quang Yen town were destroyed after the storm. "The pain of the property makes the child feel sorry", these days, many people still try to go to sea to search and save the last assets, from wooden rafts, to ropes to hang oysters and mussels.

Many timely solutions

Immediately after the storm, the town leaders directed specialized agencies to go to the grassroots to count the damage, guide people to repair ponds, cages, and treat the environment to continue farming for another crop as soon as possible. At the same time, listen to the aspirations of aquaculture farmers to promptly resolve immediate difficulties; create the most favorable conditions to help people access preferential loans from banks to reproduce after the storm.

Identifying this as a livelihood, despite the losses, many aquaculture households are not discouraged. At this time, people are still actively focusing on post-storm recovery; repairing and restoring ponds, cages, and rafts; fully preparing raw materials, fuel, and input materials for aquaculture; and being ready to release seeds when environmental conditions permit.

People find and reinforce the cages

Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy, Tan An ward, said: NTTS must consider the time of sowing and this is the most suitable time to sow the new crop, when the temperature is still cool.

“The support policies at this time are very timely. Right after receiving a loan of 500 million VND from the bank, I immediately bought 5,000 grouper fish for reproduction, and at the same time reinforced the rafts, trying to recover and start over,” Ms. Thuy shared.

Quang Yen town is also discussing and connecting with a number of businesses to support aquaculture households in the planning area with standard and qualified foam buoys with a total budget of nearly 36 billion VND. Because the budget is quite large, the town leaders also discussed with investors to support production recovery in stages.

In particular, for a long time, Quang Yen has had the strength of estuarine oysters, which are consumed well and have high economic value. Faced with the fact that Quang Ninh province does not have a facility to produce oyster seeds, the town is connecting the seeds that have been implanted in substrates imported from China for commercial farming. This is a flexible and timely way to ensure commercial products for economic development for local people.

The Town People's Committee held a meeting to listen to reports on the progress of appraisal and damage recovery caused by storm No. 3 and the progress of handing over the sea area for aquaculture.

Discussing this content, Chairman of Quang Yen Town People's Committee - Tran Duc Thang emphasized: For 462 households whose livelihoods are from aquaculture, we will try to hand over the sea surface to the households in October, creating conditions for people to restore production; At the same time, when handing over the sea surface, the town will have a basis to support the people and also facilitate management work.

"To ensure sustainable aquaculture and adaptation to climate change, the town is proposing to the province to implement a pilot scientific project on sustainable marine aquaculture in Quang Yen to create stable livelihoods for people," said Mr. Thang.

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