According to the media report in 2009, in Tra Vinh there are 129 shrimp hatcheries providing 700 million of shrimp juveniles, equivalent to 43.7 percent of total amount of shrimp farmed at the locality, the remaining was imported from other Central provinces, and Ba Ria – Vung Tau, etc.
Pham Nga Duong, Deputy Director of Tra Vinh’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, explained that the shrimp hatcheries currently can not satisfy the local growing demand for shrimp PL, which stands at 2-2.5 billion of shrimp PL per year. He added that Tra Vinh plans to push up the development of hatcheries and nurseries.
The plans also encourage and create favorable conditions to upgrade hatcheries, expand production scale, and call for investments from external investors to help local producers to improve production capability to supply safe and high quality shrimp juveniles, assist fisheries management agencies to control shrimp PL quality before selling out to shrimp farmers.
All the government agricultural departments are well instructed to cooperate with the Sub-Department of Aquaculture, Aquatic Seed Center and coastal provinces to tighten inspection of shrimp seeds. The province set the target by 2010 to produce around 1.2-1.5 billion of shrimp juveniles, accounting for 60-75 percent of the province’s total amount shrimp stocked.
