Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD) has asked relevant agencies and coastal localities to employsolutions to fulfill targets set for the fishing season from April throughSeptember.
The Directorate of Fisheries was requested to coordinate withother concerned agencies to keep a close watch on weather developments as wellas security and order at sea in order to take suitable solutions in support of fishermen.
Apart from implementing the Law on Fisheries and relevant legaldocuments, greater efforts should be made to remove the European Commission(EC)’s “yellow card” warnings on Vietnamese seafood, the ministry said.
The MARD’s Agro Processing and Market Development Authority (AgroTrade)needs to intensify trade promotion, support and protect copyright and brandnames, assess processing capacity of factories nationwide and develop consumermarkets at home and abroad.
The National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries QualityAssurance was urged to synchronously implement solutions to deal with exportitems under food safety warnings in markets.
Meanwhile, coastal localities were asked to setforth programmes and plans to realise the Law on Fisheries and popularise newlegal documents among organisations, fishermen and local people.
The ministry urged the localities to step up themanagement of fishing boats and grounds, while upgrading fishing ports and shipshelters.
Localities should encourage businesses to joinhands with fishermen to participate in production chains to ensure post-harvestquality and improve seafood values, increase technological application andensure hygiene at processing facilities, it said.
During the fishing season, aquatic catch isexpected to hit 2.1 million tonnes and turnover from seafood exports is set at3.38 billion USD, up 13.2 percent year-on-year.-VNA
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