2,000 billion spiny lobster is difficult to export to China; Vietnamese farmers call for urgent help

The Chinese market accounts for 98-99%, hundreds of tons of lobsters waiting to be sold. "Shrimp farmers just wait until the day of harvest to sell their products and then get the money to pay off their debts. Now shrimp cannot be exported, the debt is still there," Mr. Vo Van Thai, Director of Van Phong Tourism Aquaculture Cooperative (Khanh Hoa), lamented. This confession was shared by Mr. Thai at the conference "Current status of supply of breeds, food, and materials for marine farming; traceability of products and solutions for sustainable development of Vietnamese marine farming", morning of November 25. Mr. Thai said that the cooperative has 32 members, and the lobsters raised all have clear origins. However, the cooperative's farming households are in trouble, because there is still a backlog of more than 100 tons of spiny lobsters that have not been sold since August. The director of this cooperative hopes to receive support from the authorities so that farmers can soon ...