Van Don is the locality with the heaviest damage in the province in terms of aquaculture (Aquaculture) due to storm No. 3. With the goal of soon restoring marine aquaculture in the area, Van Don district has implemented solutions to remove difficulties for businesses, cooperatives, and aquaculture households at sea.
We were present at Cai Rong port (Van Don district) and witnessed many fishermen hurriedly gathering raw materials to prepare to build fish cage infrastructure or hang molluscs, ready for a new marine farming season. Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh (Dong Xa commune, Van Don district) and other family members were bringing HDPE buoys ashore to classify, clean, adjust buoyancy, compression, repair dented and distorted positions... Previously, the buoys had broken off the cages in production and floated on the sea by the wind and waves of storm Yagi . In another location, Ms. Nguyen Thi Cam (residing in Ha Long commune, Van Don district) was transporting filter plants and oyster shell substrates onto the boat to go to sea. The urgency of Ms. Cam and her relatives who came to help her showed that this fisherman was racing against time to be able to reproduce again after the storm as quickly as possible.
Van Don was the locality that suffered the most damage in the recent storm Yagi, with about 1,200 households raising marine fish and oysters having their cages and rafts destroyed by wind and waves, causing livestock to die and drift away, with estimated damage of over 2,000 billion VND. The entire Van Don sea area, which was previously the center of marine farming in the province, has now become a white sea, seriously affecting people's lives.
Identifying that aquaculture at sea is an important livelihood for the people in the area, if the sea is abandoned, many Van Don people will have no jobs and no income. Immediately after the storm, with many solutions, the Van Don district government stepped in, urgently supporting and encouraging people to overcome the consequences, aiming to soon stabilize and resume aquaculture production. Actual inspections at sea have been carried out systematically to assess, determine and appraise the extent of damage to aquaculture people. Conferences have been held to help people access policies as quickly as possible, including policies on debt suspension, debt extension, interest rate reduction, new loans... which are what aquaculture people need most to be able to reproduce. More recently, Van Don district is the first locality in the province to temporarily hand over sea surface to people with land for production.
Mr. Ha Van Ninh, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Van Don District, said: Based on the existing legal procedures, 100% of the communes and towns with sea in Van Don District have held meetings with the people, had plots drawn, markers marked and delivered right at sea. The process of handing over sea surface and organizing production later will be adjusted in terms of area and location to suit the planning and actual production characteristics.
Sharing and accompanying the NTTS people who suffered damage due to the storm in Van Don district, the banking units, through their many appraisal channels, coordinated to determine the damage related to the disbursed loan capital to serve as a basis for debt suspension, debt extension or interest rate reduction. The banks also guided and accelerated the implementation of administrative procedures for new borrowers to reproduce.
The timely and drastic intervention of Van Don district has created confidence and excitement for aquaculture households to resume production after the fierce storm. As of October 10, Van Don district had nearly 100 aquaculture households completing the release of oyster seeds for the new crop, the area just released was over 150 hectares. These are very encouraging signs of Van Don in recovering aquaculture production after Typhoon Yagi.
Believing that with the people's faith, will, determination to rebuild production and experience, with the support of authorities at all levels and social organizations, and the sharing of practical support policies, the difficulties caused by natural disasters will pass, Van Don aquaculture production will return to a systematic, sustainable, high-value state, contributing to the development of the overall aquaculture economy in the whole province.
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