On October 15, talking to reporter Dan Tri, Mr. Phan Tran Van Huy – Chairman of Song Cau Town People’s Committee – said that due to the influence of heavy rain, fresh water from upstream The heavy influx caused more than 2 tons of lobsters from 22 households to die, causing an estimated loss of billions of dong.
This situation started happening on October 14. The number of dead shrimp continued to increase on October 15 because through inspection, people discovered that there were still lobsters suffering from hypoxic freshwater shock.
The number of suffocated lobsters was purchased by traders with The price is 400,000-500,000 VND/kg, half the price of live shrimp.
Song Cau Town is the largest lobster farming area in the country, accounting for about 60% of lobster cages in Phu Yen’s nearly 90,000 lobster cages with 4,800. Household. Song Cau’s annual lobster output reaches more than 1,000 tons, with a revenue of thousands of billions of VND/year.
Recently, after heavy rains, lobsters have died during the process of submerging cages. If they go to the bottom, they will suffer from lack of oxygen or die from freshwater shock.
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