Vietnam: During floods in Dong Thap Muoi, people in Long An, Dong Thap, and Tien Giang caught fish with eggs as big as bananas

Mr. Long, a farmer in Go Phao area (Hung Dien B commune, Tan Hung district, Long An province) and his younger brother went to the flooded fields to catch fish, including fish with eggs. Flood season usually lasts about 2 - 3 months, but this year the floods come slowly so it may only last more than 1 month. “The flood is slow so I take advantage of it to flood twice a day. Each time I earn about 7 - 10 kg of fish. The best types such as dolphin fish, pike fish, snakehead fish, snakehead fish, sea bass... are filtered separately and sold to traders at Tan Hung market, priced from 80 - 110 thousand VND/1kg. As for trash fish, make fish sauce. The sale of copper fish sauce during Tet is also very high" - Mr. Long added. Considered a flood zone adjacent to the Cambodian border, at this time most of the fields in the Dong Thap Muoi region were flooded with water. As in decades past, floodwaters brought many aquatic species from upstream and also provided livelihoods for many poor ...