These days, Hon Ro Port in Nha Trang is busy with many fishing boats returning land with bumper of tunas. Many boats are also preparing to put out to sea again thought the lunar new year festival (Tet) is coming near.
These days, Hon Ro Port in Nha Trang is busy with many fishing boats returning land with bumper of tunas. Many boats are also preparing to put out to sea again thought the lunar new year festival (Tet) is coming near.
Double funs
Just coming back from a long fishing trip, fisherman Do Minh Hoang in Hon Ro said, “After 22 days on sea, we have caught 38 tunas weighing nearly 2 tons. We have good fishing in two recent trips.”
More funs come to fisherman as tuna price has risen continuously for three months. Specifically, grade 1 is priced at VND110,000/kg and grade 2 at VND105,000/kg.
According to Do Trung Hieu, manager of Hon Ro Port, the whole province now has more than 480 tuna fishing boats with total yield of over 25,000 tons. Each boat earns about VND100 million. This encourages fishermen to put out the sea.
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Welcoming Tet on sea
Fisheman Do Minh Hoang said that after selling fish out, they will return home to prepare clothes and food, and then back to the sea immediately. The next trip is foreseen to last about 20 days. He and 10 other fishmen will welcome Tet on his boat. “The sea has a lot of tunas now. The fishing trip on Tet is expected to be a bumper crop”, he shared.
To many fishermen, welcoming the lunar new year on sea is familiar as sea going on this time often gives bumper crop. Fisherman Tran Thong in Vinh Phuoc Ward, Nha Trang, said, “In this trip, beside articles of daily necessity and ice, we take some food of Tet like glutinous rice cake, jam, pickled scallion heads, pork in fish sauce, etc. to celebrate Tet on boat.” On the lunar new year eve, fishermen on sea also listen to new year greeting from the country’s President, and call their relatives in the land. The fishermen often wish each other a year of favorable weather and lucky fishing.
Hai Lang
Translated by T.T
