TT - About the barrels produced in Phu Quoc fish sauce (Kien Giang) is "cry uncle" because of lack of raw materials, not buy anchovies though the price has doubled. Meanwhile, a series of processing facilities operating dried anchovy straw, fresh fish purchased in up to hundreds of tons per day.
"War" buy anchovies compete seemed no end, while only less than a month left end fishing seasons, compost materials in fish sauce.
Rampant base air and dry
Kien Giang province has about 230 specialized mining ship, catching anchovies with a total capacity of nearly 70.000CV, mining output in the first nine months was estimated at 100,000 tons. Regarding production of fish sauce, the province has 160 processing units, the total output of 36-43 million liters / year, concentrated in Phu Quoc island district with 81 establishments, the output of 25-30 million liters / year.
Category 2.5 ton truck just pulled up, dozens of youths poured hurry, the Slovak, who carried the plastic trays, baskets filled with fresh anchovies into the temporary storage and processing facility in pairs sea. Inside the workers, mostly women, will wash raw marinated briefly and spices before putting fish in the oven "bagua" to appeal. Furnaces were built on land, like stoves and furnaces alcohol. Only after a few minutes, the product is transferred powerful fan preset to cool and then quickly put away dry along the sea, on the ground millet tray mesh size of one or poured rubber dished out plates underwent available .
"It took only a half of a day we will finish the processing of dried fish fresh anchovies to all packaging, transport to ferry Thanh Thoi (yards Da Chong, Bai Thom Commune) put in mainland consumption. 3kg 1kg fresh fish make dry fish, dry fish, but the price of fresh fish should fivefold boss lockouts word mosaic is always "- Member, an employee for pre-processing facility in the parking anchovies Dat said. Every day The group of no less than a dozen porters tonnes of fresh fish and get paid 150000-200000 / person depending on volume. Labor also in other phases less income, but also the lowest VND120,000 / person.
At beach Dat four anchovy processing facilities. Each facility utilize a few hundred meters along the coastline for drying, oven, dump wood stove heater. If rain storm will damage fish so recently conducted some installed base of steam kiln. Also dumps Dat, as noted by us, a dozen anchovy processing facility has "grown" up in dumps Long (communal Ganh Oil), beach Round (Ham Ninh Commune), door Lap (Duong To) and Duong Dong town.
Worth mentioning is that most processing facilities located in areas zoned for tourism development have been published locally.
Will tighten the processing of anchovies?
Nguyen Thi Tinh, Chairman Association of Phu Quoc fish sauce, said the development of anchovy drying facility in about a year ago poured paintings lead to buy, pushing up raw material prices doubled , triple the previous time. Consequently, there are now six fish sauce must be dissolved, the remaining businesses operate only 50-60% capacity. Only less than a month left fishing season ends, tempering anchovy sauce or, if this situation lasts, the number now quit will not stop there.
"Fish sauce needs large investments should have 90% of enterprises operating in the loan, duration 9-12 months only. Now stop or reduce capacity, now is gong to pay interest, very big damage "- Ms. Xu said. According to many barrels in Phu Quoc, had the status of unfair competition. "We are now duty bound to, the manufacturing process, but the base make it almost dried anchovies are floating, production costs, low initial investment, they boldly buy raw fish high prices "- a barrel in the home town of Duong Dong pressing said.
Talking with Tuoi Tre, Huynh Quang Hung - Vice Chairman of Phu Quoc - initial recognition processing establishments dried anchovy helped create jobs for skilled labor shortage, rising incomes for fishermen People, but when massive development, difficult to control the amount of fresh anchovies consume about 150 tonnes per day, leading to many problems such as tax losses, environmental pollution, disrupting travel landscape ... Prev This situation, recently DPC has requested the authorities to check operations comprehensive purchasing, processing, transporting anchovies around the island.
"Processing anchovies is a business line with conditions should be tightened forthcoming management districts and establishments not eligible ensure food safety and other regulations will be closed," - he Hung affirmed. According to Mr. Hung, district planning area seafood processing, manufacturing wide 100ha sauce. Dried anchovy-employed who qualify, there needs to be considered and arranged to focus on businesses here with sauce. "Besides establishing production scale, local building materials stable area, fitted with inspection and strictly control the mining, fishing anchovy sauce to the traditional craft of making viable " - Mr. Hung said.
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