Fisheries should play key role in maritime economic development

Fisheries should play key role in maritime economic development

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam addresses the opening ceremony. (Source: chinhphu.vn)

Nhan Dan – Fisheries should play a key role in realising the Party and State’s plan on developing maritime economics to 2020, as it will contribute over 50% of the total gross domestic product and account for 60% of the country’s export value.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam made the statement at the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Seafood Festival 2014 held in Tuy Hoa city, Phu Yen province on March 29.

Themed ‘Vietnam Fisheries – Integration and Development’, the festival is an opportunity for aquaculture and offshore fishing industries to exchange and promote fisheries’ development, contributing to protecting the national territorial sovereignty, while introducing tangible and intangible cultural heritage of coastal localities.

Following the opening cerenomy was an art performance.

Eighteen events are schedulded for the festival between March 27-April 2, including workshops on a strategy to develop fisheries to 2020 and trade promotion to develop the central coastal region’s fisheries sustainably; an exhibition on seafood, industry and trade, and displays of historical and legal evidence affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos.

On the same day, Deputy PM Dam visited the Phu Yen Province’s nursing centre for revolutionary contributors and senior revolution official Phan Ngo Bich, who participated in the establishment of the first Party committee in Phu Yen province.

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