New 6 Aquatic breeding centres
Ha Noi, March 11 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's fisheries sector plans to open six national aquatic product breeding centres in the next five years, says Deputy Head of the Fisheries Ministry's Science and Technology Department Tran Van Quynh.
Salt-water centres will be built on Cat Ba island in northern Hai Phong city, central Khanh Hoa province, and southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. Fresh-water breeding centres will be located in the Phu Tao district, nothern Hai Duong province, Quang Hiep district, central-highlands Lam Dong province, and Cai Be district, southern Tien Giang province.
It plans to provide high-quality and original varieties for provincial farms, train and transfer technology to other economic sectors, develop imported species for production and boost international cooperation in aquatic product breeding and development.
Viet Nam needs more than 24 billion fish fry and crustaceans, including black shrimp and fresh-water fish for aquaculture development each year, the sector estimates.
The sector now has 2,669 black-shrimp breeding nurseries, producing more than 10 billion shrimp.
Distribution of natural parent shrimp resources and favourable ecology means there are 2,022 shrimp nurseries in the central region from Da Nang city south to Binh Thuan province, or 75 percent of the national total, making it the country strongest shrimp-breeding region.
Difficulties in Viet Nam's aquatic-product breeding are attributed to a lack of high-quality and original adult shrimps in breeding farms and species planning in the nursery system.
Salt-water fish raising is slow and mostly dependant on natural resources while prices of fish types are high. Production of popular fresh-water species meets demand but quality is low and breed structure changes slowly.--VNA
