Research interest:
Regarding management, protection and development of resources:
- Survey and investigate aquatic resources
- Protect and develop coastal resources and traditional exploitation sites
- Apply technologies such as GIS, GPS, VMS ... in fishery management and protection of aquatic resources
- Implement to build up artificial fishing ground in coastal areas of Vietnam
- Manage Marine Protected Areas, serve marine farming
Regarding sustainable fisheries management and development:
- Determine a suitable alternative livelihood structures for coastal fishing communities
- Determine the number of fishing vessel by occupation, capacity, seas and seasons
- Determine the catches according to quotas
- Research to build a fishing model in the direction of sustainable production
- Community-based fisheries management
- Change alternative livelihoods for small boats and destructive fishing gears
Regarding fishing technologies:
- Studies on selectivity of fishing gears
- Introducing new alternative livelihoods for coastal fishing communities
- Advanced fishing technologies transfer
- Improve efficiency of fishing activities
- Ensure safety for fishers/member crews
- Focus on high economic species
- Apply new scientific and technological achievements (materials, methods of detecting and concentrating fish ...)
Future Research:
- Fishery resources management
- Environmentaly & Friendly fishing methods
- Improving fishing technologies
- Improving fish handling and preservation onboard
- Improving the safety at sea
- Sustainability in Fisheries
- Applying technology in fishing and fisheries management, such as GIS, GPS, VMS…
- Applying by-catch reduction devices in trawl fisheries
- Evaluating impact of climate change on fisheries
- Develop co-management for small-scale fisheries
Research Cooperation Expectation:
- Apply modern fishing technologies and friendly fishing methods
- Fish handling and preservation technologies onboard
- Fishery resources management
- Coastal resources for sustainable development
- Fisheries co-management and community-based fisheries management (CBFM)
- Improving livelihood for the coastal communities
Achievements
- Improving fishing gears in trawl fisheries, crab pots and traps fisheries, tuna longline fishery and set net
- Applying modern fishing technologies
- Fish stock assessment
- Living marine resource management
- Fish handling & onboard preservation technologies
- Building artificial reefs
- Navigation safety of fishing