The Vietnamese fish industry strives to overcome difficulties and achieve its targets for the whole year

(People's Daily) In 2020, Due to the outbreak of neo-crown pneumonia, Vietnam's aquatic export activities will be suspended due to the closure of the border.
In addition, the drought and seawater intrusion in the Kowloon Delta region have particularly severely caused many difficulties for aquaculture farmers, large stocks of aquatic products, declining demand for the sale of high-value aquatic products, intense competition in the international market for Vietnamese aquatic products and technical barriers in some import markets have also affected aquatic production activities.
many difficulties, Vietnam's total exports of aquatic products will reach about $8.4 billion in 2020, a slight decrease from 2019 and largely meeting the target set at the beginning of the year.
By the last months of 2020, as the outbreak of neo-crown pneumonia was contained, Vietnam's semi-salted shrimp export activities began to recover, and many fish import markets had recovered, so Vietnam's fish exports and exports began to show positive changes.
, Vietnam's Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that despite all the difficulties, Vietnam's aquaculture industry will strive to fulfill its stated tasks by 2020, in particular by maintaining exports at the level of US$8.4 billion to US$8.6 billion.
. Feng Dejin called on the fisheries sector to continue to strengthen aquaculture fishing activities in 2021, gradually reduce the number of marine fishing vessels, and do a good job in the management of fisheries, thereby promoting the modernization and sustainable development of fisheries.
, we will step up inspections, strictly deal with violations of fishery resources protection regulations, and completely address the shortcomings of IUU fishing.
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