Floating cages for breeding marine fish in the island commune of Thổ Châu in Kiên Giang Province's Phú Quốc City. – VNA/VNS Photo Hồng Đạt KIÊN GIANG – The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang is seeking to make its marine aquaculture safe and sustainable and economically efficient, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The province, which has the largest number of floating aquaculture cages in the delta, plans to breed marine fish in 3,890 cages this year and attain an output of 3,535 tonnes. It also aims to breed bivalve mollusks like blood cockles, green mussels and ark clams on 23,950ha, and pearl oysters on 100ha with a harvest of around 70,000 pearls. With its coastline of more than 200km and 143 large and small islands, it enjoys a big advantage. The province wants major marine aquaculture communes like Lại Sơn in Kiên Hải District, Tiên Hải in Hà Tiên City and Gành Dầu in Phú Quốc City to complete reorganisation of their marine aquaculture this year. At least 50 per cent of households breeding marine fish in these places will be allocated sea areas for aquaculture and will grant identified codes for their… Read full this story
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