The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Vietnam has advocated the Fisheries General Department’s claim ontemporarily removing Vietnam’s Tra fish from the “Red List” pendingreassessment.
The Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development (MARD) said the Vietnamese office of the wildlifewatchdog has made public its support for the claim but added that it isnot sure whether its viewpoint would receive approval from the WWFglobal.
By putting pangasius or tra fish raised inVietnam on the red list of its consumer guide-2010, a compendium ofvarious seafood guides published in several European countries, WWF hasreceived strong protests across Vietnam.
Deputy Head of the Fisheries General Department Pham Anh Tuan said hisagency would hold dialogues with WWF on the reason why it put Vietnam’s tra fish on its red list and work to the last grasp to reach acommon conclusion.
Tuan said if WWF is unable toprovide accurate ground for its decision it has to make public itscorrection. In case WWF’s assessment was prompted from the lack ofinformation the Fisheries General Department is ready to work togetherin an effort to have a more accurate conclusion.
He emphasised that the WWF’s evaluation is extremely absurd as anyassessment could be applicable just to a certain farm so far but not to aproduct of a nation.
“To assess a national product, it requires a huge statistic data,” the fisheries senior official concluded.
MARD has also asked the WWF-Vietnam, a member of the WWF community,to provide concrete criteria on which the WWF was based to put Vietnam’s tra fish on the red list of its seafood consumer guide as soon aspossible.
Mark Powell, head of the global seafoodprogramme, is due to arrive in Vietnam in the week beginning December 13to answer questions on technical measures and process that led to theaction of putting Vietnam’s tra fish on the red list./.
By putting pangasius or tra fish raised inVietnam on the red list of its consumer guide-2010, a compendium ofvarious seafood guides published in several European countries, WWF hasreceived strong protests across Vietnam.
Deputy Head of the Fisheries General Department Pham Anh Tuan said hisagency would hold dialogues with WWF on the reason why it put Vietnam’s tra fish on its red list and work to the last grasp to reach acommon conclusion.
Tuan said if WWF is unable toprovide accurate ground for its decision it has to make public itscorrection. In case WWF’s assessment was prompted from the lack ofinformation the Fisheries General Department is ready to work togetherin an effort to have a more accurate conclusion.
He emphasised that the WWF’s evaluation is extremely absurd as anyassessment could be applicable just to a certain farm so far but not to aproduct of a nation.
“To assess a national product, it requires a huge statistic data,” the fisheries senior official concluded.
MARD has also asked the WWF-Vietnam, a member of the WWF community,to provide concrete criteria on which the WWF was based to put Vietnam’s tra fish on the red list of its seafood consumer guide as soon aspossible.
Mark Powell, head of the global seafoodprogramme, is due to arrive in Vietnam in the week beginning December 13to answer questions on technical measures and process that led to theaction of putting Vietnam’s tra fish on the red list./.
