President Truong Tan Sang visits local fishermen. Photo: VNA

(VOVworld) - President Truong Tan Sang has asked authorities of central Khanh Hoa province and relevant agencies to thoroughly survey local fishery reserves and fishing capacity to avoid rushing into building offshore fishing ships resulting in wastefulness. During his fact-finding tour of Khanh Hoa on Saturday, he said the province also has to base on the local situation to carry out suitable assistance policies targeting fishermen and timely eliminate hindrance. President Sang visited Hon Ro fishing village in Nha Trang City where he discussed with local fishermen about existing obstacles facing them in offshore fishing activities and in the implementation of newly-issued fisheries policies, especially Decree 67 as only few can access preferential bank loans for building fishing vessels.

President Truong Tan Sang visited the ship yard of the Nha Trang University’s Institute for Ship Research and Manufacturing, which is building a number of composite fishing ships for fishermen in the region. The leader welcomed feedback on shipbuilding assistance policies and the increase of law enforcement forces at sea, adding that several countries with advanced fishing industry are helping Vietnam improve its fishing and product preservation techniques. Once local seafood meets quality standards, their product value will increase considerably, he noted. Meanwhile, the leader also told local agencies to carefully test functions of composite ships constructed using Japanese technology so as to find out models most appropriate to fishermen in terms of prices, function, capacity, fuel consumption, and product preservation.