Zoning plan to protect the marine environment

Officials and environmental experts assess that Vietnam's sea and islands are facing pollution from many sources, and want to have a sustainable exploitation plan.

Mr. Chu Pham Ngoc Hien, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, spoke at a forum on Vietnam's sea last week, arguing that the process of exploiting marine resources has a negative impact on values ​​and sustainability. environmental. Over-exploitation will cause waste and early exhaustion of marine resources, affecting the marine ecological environment.

A series of factories sprouted in economic zones and public parks
Coastal industry along the oil spill is a raw one
cause of the risk of environmental pollution in the sea and islands. (Photo: Tri Tin)

Mr. Hien mentioned sources of impacts on the marine environment such as oil spills causing pollution. For example, in the first four months of 2007, there were an estimated 52,000 tons of oil leaked on the Vietnamese coast, while the collection only cleared about 10% of that amount. Oil pollution will have a negative impact on coastal ecosystems.

Sea level rise is increasing pressure on marine resources and environment and potentially increasing natural disasters at sea. Dr. Tran Hong Thai, Deputy Director of the Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, is concerned that the complicated and unpredictable saline intrusion phenomenon will make it difficult for the lives of millions of people in the area. Mekong Delta. Coastal erosion and saline intrusion are a major concern for the quality of groundwater in coastal provinces and cities.

Exploiting sand in the area near the shore to plant onions, garlic is affecting
large to ecological environment Ly Son island district (Quang Ngai). (Photo: Tri Tin)

To overcome the over-exploitation situation, Mr. Vu Thanh Ca, Research Institute of Marine and Islands Management, said that it is necessary to quickly improve institutions and policies to serve general management and unification of sea and sea. Island to better manage marine resources and environment. According to him, planning should be exploited on the basis of functional zoning. Mr. Ca also recommended to stop the division and division of the sale of marine ecological buffer zones nationwide.