Especially, Ba Ria – Vung Tau province is one of the five localities that have been approved by the Prime Minister to undertake preparatory work to establish a large fishery center, linking to the key fishing grounds under Decision No. 1445 / QD TTg on 16 August 2013 approving the overall project of fisheries development to 2020 with a vision to 2030. In particular, Ba Ria – Vung Tau fisheries center is connected with the Southest fishing ground. So far, the provincial People’s Committee has completed the selection of the site and is planning to invest in the construction of a fishery center at Go Gang Island, Vung Tau city. The establishment of a large fishery center creates a modern fishery site including the formation of synchronic functional zones, attracts domestic and foreign investors and become a driving force of sustainable fishery in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province and the whole Southeast area.
At present, the province has 6,276 fishing vessels (of which 3,200 vessels can take part in offshore fishing) with a total capacity of over 1 million CV. With the development of various fishing occupations such as light fishing, trolling fishing, squid fishing, ... From 2010 to now, the total output of seafood exploitation has always increased by the average rate of 3.48% per year, accounting for approximately 39% of the Southeast output and nearly 11.30% of the total output of the country.
Besides the strength of fishing, Ba Ria – Vung Tau province has many potentials in aquaculture. The system of rivers including Thi Vai river, Dinh river, Ray river, Du Du river and three large lakes (Da Den lake, Song Ray lake and Chau Pha lake) have created a large aquaculture area. The province has planned to establish seafood cage feeding, industrial shrimp culture, brackist fish culture in pond, fish cage feeding, pearl culture with a potential area of 16,153 hectares to develop seed production, aquaculture on rivers and seas. Over the years, aquaculture has turned waste lands into the lands producing highly nutritious seafood and is becoming one of the industry’s key production sectors.
In the field of processing and exporting aquatic products, the province has 419 enterprises, establishments and individual households producing and trading aquatic products; of which 42 processing and exporting factories have been certified for HACCP, including 33 factories certified for export to the European market. Most of the remaining factories have met export standards to the US, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Russia ... with an average annual processing capacity of about 250,000 tons per year and aseafoodexport turnover of about USD 350 million per year.
In parallel with the development of the fishing, aquaculture and seafood processing industry, the fishery logistic service sector has the opportunity to develop accordingly; the province has 8 shipbuilding establishmentswhich can build 350 new ships each year, with 100,000 CV and reparing capacity of about 3,500 ships. The province has also invested in the construction of 8 permanent and semi-permanent fish ports and 6 fish landing sites scatterly located in the districts and cities with a total port cargo throughput of 360,000 tons per year.
At the same time, the province has paid attention to 05 storm shelters (including 02 regional zones and 03 provincial zones) to meet the need of more than 5,000 fishing vessels with a capacity of over 600 CV when storms and tropical low pressures occur.
Tran Hong Duong.