According to Nguyen Trung Hieu, Head of the Management Board of the Hon Ro Fishing Port in Nha Trang city, many fishing boats returned to the port from October 10-12 with much better tuna catch than previous months, earning over VND200 million (US$8,990) on average.
Skipjack tuna catch |
Notably, a number of vessels caught 180 tunas each. Ship owners have got profits as the price of tuna reached VND105,000 (US$4.7) a kilo, up VND10,000 from previous months.
Vo Huy Hoang, a fisherman from Quang Ngai province, said his boat caught over 20 tonnes of skipjack tuna, earning a profit of over VND200 million.
The income of a worker in a fishing boat ranges from five to VND10 million per month.
