Fishermen in Thanh Hoa Province are reaping significant profits from their skeleton prawn catches, with each trip to sea yielding them millions of Vietnamese dong.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will tighten inspections at fishing ports nationwide due to pending problems relating to the entry/exit of fishing vessels.

The European Commission (EC) is scheduled to dispatch an inspection team to Vietnam in October for the fourth round of assessment on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to the Vietnam Directorate of Fisheries.

After the pandemic and with the rising fuel price, a fishing trip cost much more than in the past.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first nine months of 2014, 83 Vietnamese projects were granted licences to invest overseas with a total registered capital of more than US$1 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge – Piracy off the coast of southernmost Ca Mau Province is endangering local fishermen as authorities struggle to deal with armed raids.

VietNamNet Bridge – From the observation deck of Radar Station 600, Nam Du Archipelago’s island landscape of sparkling beaches paints a watercolor image. The vast ocean is crowded with small boats and big ships.

 VietNamNet Bridge – DARA International, an organization specializing in research on environment monitoring, announced in a report that Vietnam had become even more vulnerable to climate change in 2012.