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A national tuna association or a trade mark for its tuna will soon be established. The association will cooperate with government agencies to support fishing activities including processing, setting of standards for tuna and export of tuna products. Tuna fishing, which began in Vietnam in the 1990s, has brought increasing export earnings to the nation. Tuna landings were estimated for the year 2001 at around 20000 mt. Target species were mainly bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna. Tuna is subject to the international fisheries agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The tuna that travels through Vietnamese waters is under the management of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council that grants fishing and export quotas to any country in the region.

Local tuna fishing associations have been established in the three provinces and they have linked fishermen, businesses and managers to overcome difficulties for mutual benefit. Long lines are the main method used in tuna fishing. Before the provincial tuna fishing association was established, there had been no links between the fishermen, buyers and processors. Fishermen said that the buyers had cornered the market, while the buyers complained that each voyage lasted too long and the fishermen did not pay enough attention to the quality of the tuna for export.

Currently, Vietnam has more than 1 500 tuna fishing vessels, mostly in Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa provinces. Vietnamese tuna is mostly exported to Western Europe, the USA and Japan. Despite the global financial crunch in 2008, tuna exports fetched more than US$188 million, up 25 percent against 2007.

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