After encountering rare catfish in a river area adjacent to Cambodia, Vietnamese fishermen pull the fish back to their hometown and sell it for VND 200,000 per kilogram.
On the afternoon of December 23, the head of the Fisheries Sub-Bureau of Anbu County, An Giang Province, said that Mr. Saliman (a Jan), a fisherman in the small village of Fuhui Banglong in Anbu County, caught a catfish weighing 230 kilograms. The fish was then sold for VND 200,000 per kilogram for a total price of VND 46 million.
According to the An Giang Provincial Fisheries Bureau, on the afternoon of 21 December, Mr. Saliman caught fish and shrimp in the waters of the Basa River near Cambodia in Long Binh Town, An Phu County, where the Barça River splits from phnom Penh, Cambodia, from the main mekong river stream and flows through Cambodia and Vietnam. Here, Mr. Sulliman catches catfish weighing up to 230 kilograms with a net and then informs many people to find a way to take it home and find the merchant to sell.
Catfish are group 1 aquatic species among Vietnam's endangered rare and rare aquatic species, and illegal fishing of catfish will be subject to administrative penalties of up to VND 100 million.
However, if fishermen are involved in fishing for catfish abroad, they are not within the scope of application of Vietnamese laws and regulations. So this time Salimman's behavior did not violate Vietnamese law, but made him a lot of money.