Sustainable livelihood from goby farming

The stone goby is known as one of the two “kings” of freshwater fish in Ca Mau, along with eels, thanks to its nutritional and economic value. Currently, the best stone goby has a high price, ranging from 320-350 thousand VND/kg, creating a stable source of income for many families.

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Goby is an easy fish to raise if you know the technique, requires little care and is not expensive.

To increase income, many farmers have flexibly fenced off ponds or taken advantage of available garden ditches next to rice fields and shrimp ponds to raise snakehead fish. This farming method brings double benefits: it both takes advantage of the source of anchovies and miscellaneous fish as food on the spot and significantly increases income.

When harvesting, the pond is drained dry, everyone quickly catches each fish, so that the fish are still strong and not scratched.

Fish are cleaned, sized, and put into oxygen tanks to keep them healthy.

Traders come to the place to buy snakehead fish.

For example, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Vinh (Hamlet 5, Thoi Binh Commune) maintains 3 ponds, each pond has an area of ​​about 400 m2. After more than 1 year of care, each pond can bring in an income of 30-50 million VND.

The joy of catching a good goby fish season of Mr. Nguyen Dinh Vinh and his wife.

Because of this obvious economic efficiency, raising snakehead fish has become a form of saving, taking labor as profit and is considered by many farmers as a sustainable livelihood model in the locality.

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