President of the Vietnam Fisheries Society Nguyen Viet Thang speaks at the press conference. (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Fisheries Society and Vietnam Fisheries Magazine helda press conference on March 31 to launch the voting for the best aquaticproducts of Vietnam.
Thetitle has been given twice in five years since 2009, honouring 100 units andindividuals each time, said Nguyen Viet Thang, President of the VietnamFisheries Society. After three times, thousands of businesses, collectives andpeople have applied for the competition.
Itscriteria cover economic and social benefits, technology application inproduction, along with resources and environment protection.
Accordingto the organising board, the award aims to boost the quality of aquaticproducts as well as the use of technology in production, thus raising thefisheries sector's competitiveness.
Theaquatic sector has contributed a large sum of foreign currency to Vietnam, from285.4 billion USD in 1991 to about seven USD currently. It has become thestrategic export of the country.
Besides, the sector also generates jobs in numerous fields, such as aquaticfarming, fishing, processing and logistics, benefitting the economic developmentof localities.-VNA
