Nghe An calls on the owners of 785 fishing boats operating at sea to urgently return to shore to avoid storm number 3.

Storm No. 3 named WIPHA is moving towards the Gulf of Tonkin and is considered a strong storm. It is expected that from the evening and night of July 21, winds on the mainland from Quang Ninh to Thanh Hoa will gradually increase to level 7-9, gusting to level 10-11; further inland, winds will be strong at level 6-7, gusting to level 8-9; near the center of the storm, winds will be level 10-11, gusting to level 14. Therefore, fishing boats at sea need to urgently return to shore to safely avoid the storm.

Mr. Ho Anh Son - manager of Lach Quen Fishing Port (in the old Quynh Luu district) said that from this morning, July 20, fishermen's fishing boats began to return to shore to avoid storm No. 3. The fishing port management board instructed fishermen to anchor their boats in safe locations and check and preserve all equipment and fishing gear on board safely. "This trip, fishermen have only been fishing for 2-3 days before encountering the storm, so the catch will not be high, many boats will suffer losses.

According to information from the Shore Station of the Department of Fisheries and Fisheries Surveillance, as of 9:00 a.m. on July 20, the total number of fishing vessels anchored at ports and storm shelters was 2,031 vessels/8,722 people; the total number of fishing vessels operating at sea was 785 vessels/3,938 people.

To promptly avoid storms safely, the Coast Station has now used the VX-1700 long-range communication device to inform ship owners/captains operating at sea about the direction of movement and the level of danger of the storm so they can avoid it.

At the same time, local authorities and Border Guards are also calling on fishing boats to urgently come ashore to take shelter from storm No. 3./.