Quynh Luu: Seafood export to EU countries

(Banghean.vn)- With more than 400 seafood purchasing and processing facilities, each year Quynh Luu district processes and exports 35-40 thousand tons of seafood.

In Quynh Thuan commune, factories and fishmeal processing facilities are urgently treating the environment, repairing machinery and have started operating. Along with processing fishmeal for animal feed, many facilities in the district are also busy processing seafood for export. The one-sun-dried squid processing facility of Ms. Nguyen Thi Xinh's family in Quynh Nghia hires 5-7 workers to process one-sun-dried squid and sea shrimp. Ms. Xinh said that it is currently the season for offshore squid fishing, so each month she buys 2-3 tons of fresh squid to process into one-sun-dried squid.

“To process dried squid, the squid must be fresh and large; after purchasing, the squid must be washed, split lengthwise, then dried in the sun for about one day and packaged. Dried squid is consumed everywhere, in restaurants…” - Ms. Xinh said.

Dried squid and dried shrimp are specialties of Quynh Luu. Photo: Viet Hung

Quynh Luu currently has 1,275 vessels, including 695 offshore fishing vessels, with an average output of 68-70 thousand tons/year. Along with fishing, the locality has developed the processing industry with more than 400 households participating in purchasing and processing seafood, with a variety of products such as fish sauce, shrimp paste, dried fish, shrimp, dried squid, etc. Accordingly, dried squid is processed from 1,000-1,500 tons/year; fish sauce 4.7 million liters/year; dried fish from 3,000 tons-5,000 tons/year and tens of thousands of tons of fish meal.

Fishmeal processing plants in production season

In addition to domestic consumption, products are exported through unofficial channels to China, some processed types such as fish fillets, frozen are exported to Russia and EU countries. The total annual output of processed and exported seafood reaches 35-40 thousand tons/year.

Viet Hung