(vasep.com.vn) In time of unfavorable weather for fish catching, especially anchovy, only 60 percent of the province’s fishing vessels went offshore fishing.
In the first 7 months of 2013, fish landings of Ninh Thuan province were 30,625 MT, equating to 67 percent of the yearly plan and representing a reduction of 25.3 percent compared to the same period last year.
In Jan-Jul 2013, shrimp farming area of the province was 701 hectares (including 35 hectares of black tiger shrimp and 666 hectares of whiteleg shrimp), equating to 53.9 percent of the yearly plan and counting for the increase of 28.9 percent compared to the same time of 2012. At the same period, shrimp production of the province reached 3,040 MT (including 40 MT of black tiger shrimp and 3,000 MT of whiteleg shrimp). Until late Jul 2013, the province produced 12.7 billion of shrimp seed (3.2 billion of black tiger shrimp and 9.5 billion ofwhiteleg shrimp).
Due to disease outbreaks, many shrimp farmers in Ninh Hai district shifted to grow a new kind of seafood called grape seaweed.
Grape seaweed was a kind of food with high nutrition value and huge economic value serving for exports. Planting grape seaweed have fetched farmers in Khanh Hoa and Binh Thuan provinces high profit for many recent years, however, for the first time, it was grown in Ninh Thuan province.