Developing aquaculture to adapt to climate change and rising sea levels

(Baonghean.vn) -Afternoon of November 17,under the chairmanship ofcomradeVice Chairman of the Provincial People's CommitteeDinh Viet Hong,Provincial People's Committeemeeting tolisten and comment on the draftDAdjusting and supplementing the planning for fisheries development in Nghe An province to 2020, with a vision to 2030.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Dinh Viet Hong chaired the meeting this afternoon.

In the period 2011-2015, aquaculture production has achieved remarkable achievements, however, in the process of development, the industry also encountered many difficulties and challenges such as: Aquatic resources have gradually depleted, coastal exploitation is still high, aquaculture is still unsustainable, environmental pollution and disease outbreaks... Especially, global climate change has strongly affected the development of the aquaculture industry.

Mr. Hoang Ngoc Luyen, Deputy Head of Nghe An Agricultural and Irrigation Planning Delegation presented the draft.

In that situation, the draft on Adjusting and supplementing the planning for fisheries development in Nghe An province to 2020, with a vision to 2030, determined: Fisheries development must be consistent with the province's socio-economic development tasks, promoting the potential and advantages of land and water areas on the basis of applying advanced scientific and technological achievements, with a reasonable structure and form of production organization. In particular, it is necessary to ensure sustainability and efficiency, strengthen the protection of aquatic resources, protect the environment, biodiversity, and proactively adapt to the impacts of climate change and rising sea levels. Accordingly, in seafood exploitation, there will be a shift towards offshore exploitation, continuing to invest in transforming the structure of fishing boats to exploit seafood with high output and economic value; Increasing the aquaculture area to reach an output of 60,000 tons in 2020.

Fishermen of Son Hai commune, Quynh Luu prepare for a trip to sea.

In processing, we will stabilize and upgrade existing processing facilities to ensure food hygiene and safety, promote investment attraction to build more seafood processing factories; continue to invest in infrastructure and fishing logistics services. The draft also provides groups of solutions on science-technology; investment solutions; policy and mechanism solutions; market and investment promotion solutions; and ecological environment protection solutions.

Fish coming back at Lach Con fishing wharf, Quynh Luu

Concluding the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the agricultural sector to focus on completing the Planning, including proposing more specific and drastic implementation solutions to achieve the set goals by 2020 and the vision to 2030 in developing the Fisheries sector, and submit it to the Provincial People's Committee for approval in December 2015.

Phu Huong