The signing ceremony of clam production chains according to MSC standards

ABO – On January 8, in My Tho city of Tien Giang province, Oxfam Vietnam in collaboration with the International Collaborating Centre for Aquaculture and Fisheries Sustainability (ICAFIS) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Tien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a signing ceremony to produce clam chain acceding to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard between Lenger Vietnam Co., Ltd. and clam farming area in Ben Tre province, Tien Giang province and Tra Vinh province.

At the signing ceremony. Photo: thtg.vn

This signing ceremony has attracted the attention of aquaculture households, representatives of cooperatives and cooperatives from Ben Tre province, Tien Giang province and Tra Vinh province to join and learn about new breeding process, especially to meet export markets of Europe and America, according to MSC and ASC standards.

At the ceremony, Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tien Giang, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces, International Collaborating Centre for Aquaculture and Fisheries Sustainability, Vietnam Lenger Seafood Co., Ltd and cooperatives, clam community group signed a memorandum of cooperation on implementing clam value chain in the period of 2020-2021.

Go Cong sea area in Tien Giang province has a length of about 32 km, with about 5,000 hectares of dunes, coastal mudflats with the potential to develop clam and blood cockle production.

The current actual clam farming area is about 2,000 hectares, concentrated mainly in Go Cong Dong district with an output of about 12,000 - 15,000 tons/year. Clam products of Tien Giang province have been certified to protect collective labels and clam farming areas in the province, which is complying with MSC standard of the International Marine Management Board.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by HUU TAM)