Seafood processing companies have been staying away from their fishing grounds because of China’s imposition of a fishing ban on some traditional fishing grounds of Viet Nam. General Director of Da Nang-based Thuan Phuoc Seafood and Trade Company Tran Van Linh said that due to the ban fishermen in the central region dare not go out to the sea to do fishing. As a result, processing workshops are in desperate need of materials.
According to Linh Chinese merchants are trying to purchase all the fish farmers have caught at any cost. The director of a seafood company said that at the Mong Cai border gate there are a lot of white shrimp and seafood there waiting to go to China. If the current problems cannot be settled, not only businesses in the central region, but ones in the southern region will also suffer.
It is said that the problems have outstripped the capability of enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Luong Le Phuong and Deputy Chairman of VASEP Nguyen Huu Dung both informed that the ministry would send a delegation of officials to the central region to check on the situation of fishermen and processing workshops to suggest measures to the Government.
