In particular, a prerequisite to export seafood to the EU is to present a certificate of legality of the product. However, most fishermen who are asked do not know anything about this policy, while seafood business and managers are ... waiting for instructions.

Haven’t heard, haven’t known ...!
When asked about the provisions above, most fishermen in the area of Port Tran De were shaking their heads: "Have never known". Mr. Huynh Van Kieng, an aging fisherman at Port Tran De, Trung Binh ward, Long Phu district (Soc Trang) said calmly: "For several decades, fishermen have been fishing in the sea here without declaring the origin of seafood. Except for using the type of net of which size in accordance with the fishery and no use of chemicals for preservation, we can sell whatever we catch and the more we catch, the more we sell.”

"So if you have to record the statistics, location of fishing, productivity ... can you fishermen do so?” I asked. Diep Van Man, one fisherman sighed: "If being forced to declare the origin of seafood caught, or to record the location of fishing, date and time..., it will be very troublesome and very difficult for fishermen. That is not to mention the fact that many people were illiterate then how they could declare and record. In this job, searching for location of fishing is a very important thing so even relatives sometimes have to hide it from each other”.

Fishing ship management is very hard, because before off to the sea , local authority is only responsible for the management, registration papers, crew members, registry, fishing methods, seafood trade ...Where fishermen go to, what type of fishing is, how they catch, where they trade in and to whom are totally uncontrollable. On the other hand, it is unable to change the tradition of fishing existed for thousands years

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Not also the fishermen, the owners do not know any about this information. An owner living in Tran De said: “I specialize in purchasing marine products several decades. However, I have been never heard about the requirement of recording books about where to catching fish, how to catch them; if there are, I think there are no any ship accepting to do this”

As the owners said, they do not purchase from one ship, but from dozens, and even hundreds ships, so they can not know all the originality of products. Besides, there are also appearing the collective ships that transport from offshore fishing boats and then distribute to many owners. Therefore, it’s impossible to confirm the source from all those ships.

Although the only marine product that is processed to export is frozen fish ball, the EU still impose the regulation and it will lead to many difficult situation. Last few months in 2009, the exploitative products from marine continually go down on price that affect to the life of fishermen. Now with the regulation from EU, the fishermen will face with harsher problem in consuming their products. However, in the writer’s research, most processed products from the exploitation from Soc Trang only export though the middle men, and not export directly.

Wait to the guide
Although the fishermen are not worried much, the leaders of agriculture are different. Mr. Nguyen Van Khoi-Deputy Director of Agriculture and Rural Development Department of Soc Trang said:”The exploitative ships of all Soc Trang province are 1,082 in number with 57, 089CV total capacity, including 2/3 scratching and gill net ships…. Therefore, it will face problem with IUU regulation from EU. We received this information, but has no written instructions about the order to deploy to the local fishermen. . Even so, in this training, and propaganda; we have incorporated this content for fishermen

Due to the intermediate ring road, so price will be not definitely high and this affected the purchasing price of raw materials from fishermen. For the owners, they are not too worried because if the price is low, they will buy low while ensuring a certain level of profit, only the fishermen are not the most disadvantaged when IUU regulations are tightened

An estimated production of Soc Trang marine exploitation in 2009 is approximately 33 thousand tons, including nearly four thousand tons of shrimp, the rest mostly fish and some aquatic products. The province only has a processing fishing ball plant with the capacity around 7 thousand tons, so we cannot say it is not affected by the above barrier.