2000 tonne barramundi facility to be built in Vung Tau

     2000 tonne barramundi facility to be built in Vung Tau

     Ms Nguyen Thi Minh Trang, Deputy General Director and co-owner of United Seafood Packers Company Ltd (USPC) Binh Duong Province,     Vietnam (www.uspc.com.vn ), announced that her Vietnamese company, recognised as one of the world’s top seafood processors of    frozen tuna and swordfish steaks, exporting US$25 million annually, will take a 65% stake in SAI-PAC Fish Farm Co. Ltd., a large-scale    indoor barramundi and grouper fish farm using Australian Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) technology.

    SAI-PAC has confirmed it has been given an investment licence by the Planning & Investment Dept. along with the Fishery Dept. of Ba Ria Vung    Tau province and will invest 3 million US dollars to build a 2,000 metric ton growout facility located at a “Marine Hatchery Center Park” in Vung    Tau province. SAI-PAC has completed a one-yea intensive study and research on suitable locations and finally decided on the seaside area of    Phuoc Hai, Ba Ria Vung Tau Province as to avoid the growing pollution, ever more violent weather patterns and red tide issues.

     “Mr Nguyen Minh Chi, the director of the Fishery Dept. of Ba Ria Vung Tau province, has been very supportive in helping us    to obtain the 6    hectare land site for our project. All the local government authorities are very positive about this project because of its RAS technology that allows    the growing of sustainable fish and causing no harm to the Environment”, said Ms Trang.

   The SAI-PAC Fish Farm Co. Ltd. will be the largest indoor RAS growout facility in South East Asia, if not the world within 12 to 18 months, and for     this reason, according to the spokesman for SAI-PAC, Mr Nguyen Anh Phong, “we feel very positive about the appointment of Barramundi Blue     Aquaculture International (BBAI) of North Queensland, Australia, as our project manager and supplier of RAS technology.”

   “The reason we have opted for the RAS technology over sea cages is because the latter is susceptible to many natural, environmental and   human risks, from red tides, typhoons, pollution, disease, logistics to piracy. BBAI’s technology will allow us to have the strictest water quality,   disease and chemical free environment and aquaculture management controls in a land based farmer are superior to an external facility’” Ms   Trang added.

   BBAI will provide the supply of Australian barramundi fry to complete the growing process.

   “We are very excited about this project and we believe our fish will walk its way into the world market for the type of quality fish we are going to    produce,” Ms Trang concluded.

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