Total fishing output in the first five months of the year increased 2.4 percent year-on-year to 1.3 million tonnes due to favourable weather conditions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Ocean tuna fishing in Binh Dinh province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Total fishing output in the first five months of the yearincreased 2.4 percent year-on-year to 1.3 million tonnes due to favourableweather conditions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD).
Of the total figure, seafood exploitation was estimated at 1.27 million tonnes,up 2.5 percent from the same time last year.
Coastal provinces specialized in ocean tuna fishing brought home 9,227 tonnesof tuna during January-May, a year-on-year drop of 8 percent. Of the figure, 4,750tonnes were from Binh Dinh province, 2,287 tonnes from Phu Yen and 2,190 tonnesfrom Khanh Hoa.
The ministry urged fishermen to build modern fishing vessels and apply hightechnology in post-harvest process. Meanwhile, low-capacity boats which cause negativeimpacts on the marine eco-system should be abolished.
Also in the period, Vietnam recorded a year-on-yearrise of 9.7 percent in aquatic export value to 3.12 billion USD. The figure for May alone was estimated at 671 million USD.
The US, Japan, China and the Republic of Koreawere the four biggest importers of Vietnamese aquatic products between Januaryand April, making up 52.7 percent of total fishery exports in the period.
Meanwhile, markets with strong growth in aquaticimports from Vietnam were the Netherlands (60.2 percent), China (28.8 percent),the UK (27.4 percent) and Germany (27 percent).
The country imported about 165 million USD worthof fishery products, raising the five-month aquatic import value to 698 millionUSD, up 33.5 percent from a year earlier.-VNA
Coastal localities have reported bumper fishing catches in the first two months of this year, with total seafood catches estimated at 473,900 tonnes, up 2.2 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The export of aquatic products in March was estimated at 608 million USD, bringing the total shipment in the first three months to 1.7 billion USD, up 11.5 percent annually
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Ocean tuna fishing in Binh Dinh province (Photo: VNA) 
