Enhancing value of Cam Ranh lobster

From August 3 to 11, Cam Ranh Lobster Festival 2024 takes place in Cam Ranh City with many unique and attractive programs. This is an opportunity to promote the image, enhance the value of Cam Ranh lobster, partly attracting tourism, towards developing Cam Ranh into a tourism - logistics urban area according to the orientation of Resolution No. 09 on building and developing Khanh Hoa province to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Excited about the festival

The Cam Ranh Lobster Festival 2024 is held for the first time in Cam Ranh City - known as one of the lobster kingdoms. Throughout the festival are activities such as art program to open the festival; culinary culture festival and exhibition, connecting trade in lobster, seafood and OCOP products; boat racing festival, basket shaking festival; flower car - bicycle parade; folk art performance exchange... Notably, the Cam Ranh Lobster Festival 2024 also has a Cam Ranh lobster culinary performance competition and sets a Vietnamese record of "120 dishes made from Cam Ranh lobster". Currently, 60 professional chefs from provinces and cities across the country are ready to prepare dishes from lobsters.

Beauty Ngoc Diem introduces lobters on Binh Ba Island

Nguyen Ngoc Bao Han (Nha Trang City) said that when she heard about the lobster festival, her whole family went to Cam Ranh to enjoy dishes made from lobster as well as other seafood. "This is a meaningful and necessary festival to attract visitors and promote Cam Ranh specialties. Cam Ranh is famous for its lobster specialty not only because of its large output but also because of its quality. I hope Cam Ranh City will continue to organize the annual lobster festival to promote and introduce lobster dishes to people and tourists", Han shared.

In particular, on this occasion, Miss Ngoc Diem (Miss Vietnam Tourism 2008) was chosen by the Organizing Committee as the Ambassador of the Cam Ranh Lobster Festival in 2024. In the days before the festival, Miss Ngoc Diem went to the lobster farming area on Binh Ba Island to make films introducing the value of Cam Ranh lobster to domestic and foreign tourists.

Towards sustainable lobster farming

On January 28, 2022, the Politburo issued Resolution No. 09 on building and developing Khanh Hoa province until 2030, with a vision to 2045, in which it is oriented to build Cam Ranh City as a tourism - logistics urban area; striving to become a urban area of type II by 2030. Right after that, Cam Ranh City developed an action program, implementation plan for each content, task, assignment and determination of responsibilities of each level, each agency, locality and unit. Cam Ranh City People's Committee worked with the Institute for Tourism Development Research under the Department of Tourism to advise and develop the Project on tourism development in Cam Ranh City until 2030, with a vision to 2045; contribute ideas and orient the local tourism development space appropriately, thereby identifying key tourism development areas to call for investment and develop tourism after approval. It is expected that the project will be completed in 2024, serving as a basis for promoting investment in locations with natural sea and island landscapes.

Some dishes from lobster

Talking to reporters, Ngo Huu Hien - Vice Chairman of Cam Ranh City People's Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee of the Cam Ranh Lobster Festival 2024 said that in order to develop aquaculture sustainably and in the right direction, on February 6, Cam Ranh City Party Committee issued Resolution No. 32 on strengthening the Party's leadership in the management of aquaculture activities in Cam Ranh Bay. After that, localities have made efforts to propagate to fishermen, determined not to let new cages arise. In the coming time, the city will clear the entire coastal water surface to implement the Cam Ranh Bay Urban Area Project with an area of ​​over 1,200 hectares, contributing to changing the face of the urban area and coastal landscape to serve the daily needs of the people. Cam Ranh City People's Committee has also coordinated with businesses to test high-tech aquaculture (offshore farming using HDPE cages). The test results are remarkable with productivity reaching more than 150% compared to traditional marine farming; shrimp and fish products are of higher quality. This is the premise for the city to expand and deploy high-tech marine farming, aiming at sustainable development of lobster farming, ensuring conditions for traceability, serving lobster export, and bringing high economic value.

Van Ky

Translated bt T.T