At five in the morning on the beach at Tam Xuân commune, trawlers and mành boats come in and the catch is split into two piles, Thanh Niên reported on October 21. Traders scramble for the fresh fish, shrimp and crab that people will eat. What is left is a mixed, low-quality catch with a quieter market: feed for farmed lobster.
A local buyer told the paper she pays trawler crews about VND10,000 a kilogram for the whole mixed lot, hires people to sort it, and resells it to collectors who ship it to lobster farms on the Đắk Lắk coast. The margin is thin, she said, and profit comes from volume.
The sorters are mostly local women. One said that in a good stretch, when the boats land plenty, a session could pay VND250,000 to 300,000. Now the season is winding down, catches are smaller, and a session brings in VND100,000 to 200,000. The work is not steady, she said, because it depends entirely on what the boats bring in.
Why it matters: The report shows a side of Da Nang's fishing economy that rarely appears in price lists: seasonal work tied to farms on another province's coast. It does not say how many people do this at Tam Xuân or in other fishing communes.
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