Quang Thinh village rises from the sea

Fishermen in Quang Thinh village exploit sea shrimp.

Cua Lan fishing port (Quang Thinh) is always bustling with boats coming and going these days. Among the boats docking to sell seafood are fishermen busy preparing their fishing gear for a new trip to sea. Among them is Mr. Bui Van Cu, who has been involved in the sea for decades. Mr. Cu shared: "I have been working at sea since I was a young man. Being involved with the sea has helped me have a prosperous life, buying 2 fishing boats with a total capacity of nearly 500CV, worth billions of VND, creating jobs for 8 workers with an income of about 150 million VND/person/year. I think I will be involved with the sea for the rest of my life, not only to make a living and develop the economy, but also to be proud of contributing to protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland". In addition to directly participating in fishing at sea, Mr. Cu is also the captain of the Nam Thinh self-managed fishing boat team supporting each other at sea with more than 30 members who are boat owners in Quang Thinh village. Since its establishment in 2014, the members of this self-managed fishing boat team have always been united, helping and supporting each other at sea; becoming an extension of the provincial Border Guard force in protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland. Lieutenant Colonel Le Xuan Hoa, Political Commissar of Cua Lan Border Post, said: Over the years, the model of the self-managed fishing boat team operating at Cua Lan fishing port has united and supported members to go out to sea, stick to the sea, and protect the homeland's sea. The participating members are not only responsible for helping and protecting each other in their professional activities, maintaining security and order at ports and moorings, and effectively exploiting aquatic resources, but also proactively grasping information and activities related to security and order at sea, promptly informing the authorities about the situation of fishing ground disputes and activities violating the sovereignty of foreign vessels; supporting the rescue of many fishermen in distress and fishing vessels in trouble at sea; coordinating with the Border Guard and military forces to conduct drills on natural disaster prevention and control and search and rescue. Thereby, actively contributing to the socio-economic development of the locality, protecting security and order in the sea of the Fatherland.

Officers of Cua Lan Border Guard Station propagate the law to fishermen in Quang Thinh village.

Quang Thinh village currently has 114 boats with a capacity of 100CV to 400CV, over 500 workers regularly exploiting seafood. The locality has many advantages to develop the marine economy with Cua Lan fishing port having hundreds of fishing boats coming in and out every day with a very large seafood output. Thanks to the abundant source of raw materials, the local seafood processing sector has developed. The village has many seafood processing facilities, including more than 10 large seafood processing companies and facilities, creating stable jobs for hundreds of workers; there are 7 OCOP products made from seafood materials that bring high economic value. From a poor fishing village in the past, Quang Thinh has now become a locality with a strongly developing economy with an average total production value in the period of 2020 - 2025 of more than 323 billion VND/year, an average economic growth of 11.8%. The number of well-off and rich households in the village accounts for the majority, the number of multidimensional poor households in 2025 is under 1%; rural infrastructure is invested in upgrading and newly built, people's lives are increasingly improved.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Vinh, Secretary of the village Party Cell: Taking advantage of the potential to strongly develop the profession of exploiting, cultivating and processing seafood, the village focuses on leading, motivating and creating conditions for people to develop production; proposing to coordinate with credit institutions to lend people over 100 billion VND from banks, capital mobilized from the people is about 220 billion VND to invest in upgrading and converting boats, developing production of aquaculture and seafood processing industries. In addition, the locality continues to effectively maintain self-managed boat teams, sovereignty protection boat teams, production teams and combine natural disaster prevention and control and search and rescue. Propagating and mobilizing people to actively participate in managing and protecting sovereignty, sea areas, islands...