Yen Binh strives to achieve aquaculture and fisheries output of over 9,200 tons.

Promoting the advantage of over 19,000 hectares of Thac Ba lake surface, in recent times, Yen Binh district has actively invited and created favorable conditions for enterprises and cooperatives to invest and apply technical advances in cage fish farming to effectively exploit the potential of Thac Ba lake surface for aquaculture, contributing to improving people's income and life.

Currently, the area around Thac Ba Lake has 2 enterprises, 5 cooperatives, 13 cooperative groups and over 300 households raising fish in cages and nets. The main types of fish raised are catfish, red tilapia, tilapia, catfish, cowfish, silver carp... The total annual aquatic product output of the district reaches 8,500 tons.

By 2025, the aquaculture and exploitation area of ​​Yen Binh district will be about 800 hectares; 2,500 fish cages will be developed stably; aquaculture and exploitation output will reach over 9,200 tons, of which aquaculture output will reach 8,000 tons; natural exploitation output will reach 1,200 tons, the average growth rate of aquaculture production value will be from 1.8-2%/year; the aquaculture structure will account for 19-20% in the structure of agricultural, forestry and fishery production value.

In the coming time, Yen Binh district will continue to exploit the maximum water surface area to develop aquaculture suitable for each locality in a sustainable direction, protecting the ecological environment; focusing on improving productivity, quality, added value and competitiveness of products.

Along with that, Yen Binh district will integrate investment capital sources, encourage socialization of resources from organizations and individuals to build key works serving seedling and aquaculture to promote the application of intensive and highly intensive farming measures to improve productivity and product quality; encourage the development of aquaculture feed production suitable for each farming object.

In addition, the district will coordinate with the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance and the Provincial Cooperative Alliance to continue to develop and expand cooperative groups, cooperatives, co-management groups, joint venture models, and associations between organizations and individuals in the form of cooperation associated with the new rural construction program; develop linkage chains in the production and consumption of aquatic products; continue to implement the planning of zoning for aquatic production, form concentrated aquaculture areas in the direction of commodity production and strongly transform the structure of crops and livestock from ineffective low-lying fields to aquaculture.

Manh Cuong

Source: https://baoyenbai.com.vn/12/350031/Yen-Binh-phan-dau-san-luong-nuoi-trong-va-khai-thac-thuy-san-dat-tren-9200-tan.aspx