Tuoi Tre News 12 February 2015 Manually draining ditches to catch fish is a long-standing practice in several Mekong Delta provinces in Vietnam and if tourists are lucky enough, they might find themselves in such an intriguing sight during Tet (Lunar New Year) tours. Tours to such Mekong Delta places as Dong Thap, Can Tho, An Giang, Ben Tre, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau, and Kien Giang are offered Read More…

New York Times 4 February 2015 SAN FRANCISCO — Jessica Vyvyan-Robinson was diving off Borneo when she was struck without warning by shock waves. “I could feel it in my chest — like a dull, booming sound,” she recalled in an interview. After surfacing, her group learned that fishermen had detonated explosives. The incident, which occurred a year ago, was Ms. Vyvyan-Robinson’s Read More…

Foreign Policy 2 February 2015 More than four decades ago, as a young lieutenant in the “brown-water Navy,” my crew and I journeyed down the Mekong River on an American gunboat. Even with the war all around us, in quiet moments we couldn’t help but be struck by the beauty and the power of the river — the water buffalo, the seafood we traded for with local fishermen, the mangrove on Read More…

The Fish Site 29 January 2015 Shrimp farmers in Indonesia and Thailand and tilapia farmers in China will receive training and knowledge to help them improve their livelihoods and increase collaboration to manage and improve water quality and reduce incidences of disease outbreaks. The Aquaculture Improvement Projects will create a zonal approach to form local management groups for greater Read More…

VietNamNet Bridge 28 January 2015 The Viet Nam Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX Viet Nam) is the first major collaborative scientific analysis of climate change by Vietnamese researchers. Compiled over more than two years by a group of 40 scientists, policy-makers and experts, the report assesses extreme weather Read More…