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Tra and basa output alarmingly high

VIET NAM - According to the Ministry of Fisheries, the output of farmed tra and basa increased sharply in the first six months of the year, estimated at 400,000 tonnes, an increase of 100% over the same period of 2006.

Alarm bells are ringing over the very high productivity of tra and basa, which is believed to be causing environmental problems. The fish are now being bred in the centre and the north and not only in the traditional southern provinces.

The high price of tra and basa, which is now hovering at VND17-17,500/kg, has prompted people to farm fish on a large scale. The flip side of the overly ‘hot’ development of fish farming is that it has caused a serious lack of breed fish and increased prices of food for fish and chemicals.

According to the Ministry of Fisheries, tra and basa farming has developed to an uncontrollable rate with the farming density of 300-500 tonnes per hectare, which, as experts have warned, will have bad impacts on the environment.
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Source: TheFishSite News Desk