Van Don is the province's most severely damaged aquaculture area due to storm No. 3, with the marine aquaculture area almost completely wiped out. With the province's determined and drastic direction to quickly remove difficulties and gradually revive the marine aquaculture industry in Van Don, Van Don district has actively implemented solutions. Up to now, many aquaculture areas have been restocked, bringing confidence and expectation to the people.
Storm No. 3 caused severe damage to aquaculture facilities and households in Van Don district. Of which, the total output of aquatic products ready for harvest was about 32,112 tons (25,638 tons of oysters, 636 tons of fish, 5,840 tons of other seafood); in addition, it also caused damage to 2,000 hectares of oysters and 3,500 cages for newly stocked fish. The total estimated damage to aquaculture in Van Don district is over 2,300 billion VND.
With the goal of soon restoring marine aquaculture in Van Don district, ensuring social security and welfare for the people, implementing the direction of the province, the People's Committee of Van Don district has promptly deployed solutions to remove difficulties for businesses, cooperatives, and marine aquaculture households.
Mr. Vu Duc Huong, Chairman of Van Don District People's Committee, said: Immediately after the storm, the district directly organized many working sessions with credit institutions, enterprises, and aquaculture households to listen to the thoughts and aspirations of the people. From there, discuss solutions to remove difficulties in the direction of creating the most favorable conditions for people to defer, postpone, and extend bank debt repayment; access new loan sources without collateral or "0 VND" interest rates so that people have resources to restore production.
In parallel with working with credit institutions, the People's Committee of Van Don district has directed specialized departments to closely coordinate with the authorities of communes and towns in the area to establish many working groups to carry out steps to hand over the sea area under the jurisdiction of the District People's Committee within the 3 nautical mile management area. Accordingly, by September 30, the District People's Committee had completed the procedures to hand over the location, coordinates, landmarks, and sea area to nearly 600 households of 50 cooperatives in the area, with an area of 4,553 hectares, an increase of 118% in farming area compared to the time before storm No. 3.
According to records from communes and towns, currently 75 households with locations, coordinates, and boundary markers have deployed ropes and tied buoys to raise oysters, with an area of 495 hectares. Up to now, 90 hectares have been stocked with oyster seeds, concentrated in the communes of Ban Sen, Ha Long, Dong Xa, and Thang Loi. The remaining areas are being actively marked with boundary markers, reshaping the sea area, tying buoys, and rearranging the rafts according to the correct objects, areas, and boundary markers assigned by the People's Committees of communes and towns.
In addition to oyster farmers, fish cage farmers are also urgently repairing and installing damaged and deformed cages. It is estimated that after the storm, 2,000 fish cages have been repaired, reaching 30% of the affected cages. These cages are used by farmers to raise fish that survived the storm.
On September 30, the District People's Committee issued a decision to assign the sea area under its jurisdiction within the 3-nautical mile management area, the direct aquaculture subject to 5 households raising marine fish in the waters of Cai Rong town, with a total area of 2.5 hectares (each family 0.5 hectares).
Mr. Pham Van Long, Zone 9, Cai Rong Town (Van Don), shared: My family is very excited to be one of the first households in the district to be assigned a marine farming area according to regulations. Previously, the family raised mainly spontaneously, so when storm No. 3 caused damage, there was almost no basis to enjoy the support mechanisms and policies of the state. Now the family has received a decision to assign the sea surface, which is considered an asset that can be mortgaged to the bank to borrow capital and reproduce.
It is known that, in order to accompany aquaculture farmers in Van Don to gradually overcome difficulties, in addition to credit organizations providing capital support, many floating material manufacturing enterprises in aquaculture in and outside the province have also actively participated in supporting farmers by giving them buoys, reducing the selling price of HDPE buoys produced by the unit and supplying them directly to the place.
After only a short time of implementation, from a "white sea" area with nothing left after the storm, many sea areas of Van Don have gradually formed new, larger-scale farming areas.
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