(vasep.com.vn) In 2013, total fish farming area of Phu Yen province increased by 309 hectares to 2,951 hectares including 2,119 hectares of whiteleg shrimp; 160 hectares of black tiger shrimp; 128 hectares of marine finfish; 268 hectares of freshwater finfish and 276 hectares of other fish farming.
In 2013, the province has 22,591 lobster cages, down 7.4 percent year-on-year. The number of marine finfish cages was 4,965 ones, representing 1.6-fold increase over 2012. In the year, farmed marine finfish were mainly grouper, red snapper and sea bass, fetching high productivity. The annual productivity of whiteleg shrimp reached 3.44 MT per hectare; 0.86 MT per year was the productivity of black tiger shrimp and lobster productivity was 27.5 kilogram per cage per year. Accordingly, aquaculture production of the locality in 2013 registered 10,103 MT, up 27 percent year-on-year.
Local farmers are implementing harvest crop schedule, stocking high-quality seed, applying advance technologies in farming, closely controlling the environment of farming area and timely treating diseases on farmed fish.
To develop sustainable aquaculture, the local authorities are planning farming areas and selecting suitable species to rear. Besides, the local leaders will give incentive policies to fish seed producers for them to produce high-quality seed as well as strengthen controlling drugs, feed, bioproducts used in aquaculture. Fish farming models that fetched high productivity need to be expanded.
Moreover, fish farming model under Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) will be introduced the province with an aim to produce high quality to export to more markets.