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The sadness of the sea profession in Central Vietnam

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Since ancient times, the sea village, the marine profession has had a very important meaning in life, culture, security – national defense, but now, along the central provinces, the sea village is being ‘broken in structure’, being ‘invaded’ by new lifestyles, foreign factors … making the marine profession fade away.

Old fisherman Nguyen Thai Son, Hong Thai village (Nghe An) is sad because the fishing ground is increasingly exhausted Sea story, job story Early in the morning, at Lach Con estuary (Quynh Phuong ward, Hoang Mai town, Nghe An), fisherman Ho Van Toan (63 years old, Quyet Tien village, Quynh Phuong ward) allowed the boat to land. From 12 o’clock the previous night, Mr. Toan alone went out to sea and caught more than 1 nautical mile from the river gate. Previously, he specialized in offshore fishing. In recent years, he “retired” at home, sad and sad, and remembered his job, so he bought a small boat of 15 million VND to go to sea. “Buy it for the old man with uncle!”, Mr. Toan chuckled and then began to remove the nets, in fact, scooping up the nets, to find the meager result he just had harvested. Mr. Toan laments: “Now the resources are running out, uncle. The ship pounded, scratched the snail (pull the grease snail), then the net bowl, the electric pulse swept, sweeping from the big to the small one. If you have eggs, you can catch them, you can catch them when they are born, then they won’t have the next generation. I am worried about how I will live on my own because I am old ”. After the trip to the sea, Mr. Tran Van Duc (Thang village, Quang Nham commune, Quang Xuong, Thanh Hoa) sat again knitting cage to fight crab. From March to July, the 8th lunar month, he caught crabs; in the remaining months, they were fishing for mantis shrimp and grouper. Mr. Duc said that before, there were many crabs offshore Thanh Hoa, but now they have to go fishing as far as Quang Ninh, Hai Phong. Mr. Nguyen Van Chung, head of Hai Thinh village (Nghi Thiet commune, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An) said that in the past, the village was isolated from the outside, women were rice farmers, men went to the beach. The village’s fishing grounds come mainly from Mat Island. “The fish in my hometown spawned in February and March of the lunar calendar. In the past, this was a quiet sea for them to breed, but now it is stirred up, mined, scratched, polluted, so the source is becoming more and more exhausted. My hometown beach is beautiful, unspoiled, many visitors love it, but now it’s all gone, ”Mr. Chung sighed. Marine workers are now mostly elderly people, some 70-75 years old still go to sea, while young people take care of other jobs in the four countries. Marine people escaped from the marine profession Every time he mentions the sea profession, Mr. Tran Ngoc Chau (72 years old, living in Thanh Son village, Nghi Son island commune, Nghi Son town, Thanh Hoa) is sad again. The “mantra” of the sea villager “if the sea can, I can” no longer seem to be ineffective. He said: “In the past, I pointed out that Nghi Son Bay had set up a trap and had eaten. As we go out to sea a little bit, we often say happily one day to work a month. But now it’s over!”. Nghi Son island commune in the past 100% of the people work in the sea. People here live and die by the sea, “the nose of the boat is guarded on the side of the house”. In recent years, the sea fishing has faced many difficulties, especially the catch has decreased sharply, so many people do not want to go to the sea, some ship owners have to “sell jobs”, which means selling ships that do not work anymore. With the opening of Nghi Son Economic Zone, many stable job opportunities have attracted seafarers. For example, a young couple works as a worker on average 7 million VND / month / person. This is a stable source of income, while the sea is precarious, when the husband goes out to sea, the wife stays at home “hanging the mast” spiritually. We went back to Dai Dong village (Cuong Gian commune, Nghi Xuan district, Ha Tinh province) to meet Mr. Tran Ngoc Canh, heard him tell him: In the years 1989-1990, Cuong Gian commune had more than 1,000 boats, up to now there are only 300 ships. . Now, there are only people aged 40 and over, even over 70 years old. The whole commune has 2,700 people working abroad. Labor export for high income, each month someone sends 80 – 90 million VND, especially someone sends 120 – 130 million VND. Someone had a “broken” lot, had billions in debt, went out of labor export for 3 years to pay the debt, built a 3-storey house. But there are also people 50 or 60 years old who still have to leave their homeland, some have gone for 20 years and have not returned to their hometown once. Having a family, the wife remembers that the husband had to visit, then went back alone. Now, at the parent meeting, the children can see the grandparents, and the parents are “busy working far away”. Mr. Canh suppressed a sigh: “Everything is due to food and bargain. If the fishing career provides a stable income, no one wants to live away from their wife and children or from home ”. The village is gradually “conquered” Central coastal villages, which are peaceful and pristine, have been gradually “invaded” by tourism projects, economic development; because the debt caused by the marine industry is getting more and more difficult. Hai Thinh village (Nghi Thiet commune, Nghi Loc, Nghe An) is hidden behind the mountains of Chuong Ga, Mang mountain, and Mui Co. In the past, to get into the village, there was only one way, along one side of the mountain and the other by the sea. This place is a peaceful and beautiful place with beaches such as Oyster beach, Chuoi beach, Lang beach … Because of its prime location, wild beauty, this place has attracted a large eco-tourism project. . But, from 2013 up to now, this project is still “stationary”. Mr. Nguyen Van Chung, Head of Hai Thinh Village shook his head in frustration: “If the ecotourism project of Thanh Phat Company (headquarter in Hanoi) was implemented on schedule, our village would not have been encroached on by cement. . The ecotourism project has compensated people for nearly 8 billion VND for site clearance, but for some reason it has not yet implemented. It’s very polluted now ”. The project not only pollutes people but also affects the fishing grounds. Every time you dig and clear the channel, people rake the bottom layer up, dust from cement grinding station, from digging mountains to encroach the sea makes fish and shrimp no habitat. Coming to Tan village (Quang Nham commune, Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa), we found many signs with full name and phone number in the empty land. The idea of ​​advertising for selling land, but good research, this is a way for landowners to contact the project owner of the resort when they come to measure. Outside the village, facing the sea, a new breakwater was completed. A group of villagers were drying anchovies, listening to me complimenting the dike for making a beautiful beach. A middle-aged woman said: “It is really beautiful, but I do not know whether to work for people or work for tourism project owners. This embankment has just been invested 100 billion by the State to break waves for Tan village because of wave erosion. But just finished, the owner of the tourism project also entered ”. In 2004, the family of old fisherman Nguyen Van Thuong from Dong village (Quang Nham commune) went to Tan hamlet and was provided with 200m2 of residential land. Before the last New Year’s Eve, when he was fishing at sea, he heard his wife call to announce that people came to measure the land and prepare to relocate. When Tet came, he found out that not only his house but also Tan village had to relocate to make room for a resort tourism project. Mr. Vu Hoang Anh, Secretary and Head of Tan village, said: “In 2001, implementing the migration policy, people in the inner villages of Quang Nham commune went to the wasteland where bordering the Yen river mouth and the sea to live. Up to now, the village has 180 households with over 700 people, 80% of the population working in seafaring. The policy of giving land to ORG Joint Stock Company for the implementation of the urban and tourist project has been popular since 2017. Although the policy has been 4 years, it has not been measured until January 2021. During the 4 years of being “suspended”, people were not allowed to build houses and welfare works. To be honest, we don’t want to go, because here is a large land, life is already stable. If the project is implemented, then deploy it soon, but living like this is so miserable! ”. Mr. Ho Xuan Huong, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quynh Phuong ward (Hoang Mai town, Nghe An), said: Local authorities, central ministries need to have close coordination to implement the guidelines of the Party and House. on the strategy of marine economic development. For a long time, the policy has been in place, but the implementation to the coastal villages, particularly to each fisherman, is still lackluster. Along with that, it is also necessary to plan, train and form a force of good and modern fishermen, taking on the role of “living milestones” in the middle of the East Sea of ​​the country.

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