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Small-scale fisheries are estimated to employ some 37 million people, of whom around 90% are in Asia. Additionally, an amount of 100 million people is estimated to find employment in associated activities. More people are involved in full time, part-time or seasonal fisheries activities, and the benefits of fish consumption are much more widely significant around the world. While the fish species involved, using terminology on boats, vessels, ships, fishing methods, and management approaches vary widely global. In Asia Pacific region, small-scale fisheries contribute to livelihoods of ~357 million people, many of the resource use, community impact and policy issues are similar. Likewise, the constraints and challenges have strong similarities.

Vietnam's fisheries are considered small scale including capture, aquaculture, processing and trading operation. Additionally, there are depending goods and services such as research, maintenance and technology transfers.

Fisheries sector is one of the economy pillars to make an important contribution to food security and poverty alleviation– especially coastal zones and remote islands. This provides high export turnover to country, with average annual growth during period of 19982013 is 12%. According to the national economic report, there are about 4.7 million of Vietnamese fisheries laborers in the fields of capture, aquaculture, processing and services. The total of fisheries production was over 5.3 million tones and fisheries export turnover was valued at $US 6.3 billion, making up more than 6% of Vietnam's total export values in 2013. Moreover, the figure of state statistic reports, there are about 12% of fishermen and their household still under the national poverty level whom consists of a capita of 400,000 VND/person/month (~$US 20). Those coastal people are trying to escape poverty situation.

Presently, small-scale fisheries need applying and following up the international regulations by FAO, WTO, WHO and technical barriers such as dumping and sanitary issues from import countries. Within APEC, Viet Nam highly desires essential instruments in fisheries management, particularly where shared stocks and fishing activities are involved. The importance of small-scale fisheries in resource use and in social and economic impact is becoming more strongly recognized, and entering more explicitly into policy and management approaches.

Although small-scale fisheries significant input, this remains inadequately implicit. For that reason, Viet Nam had been conducted several meeting, workshop in connection to small-scale fisheries. However, it also recognized that concepts, frameworks, scopes and definition in terms of small-scale fisheries are yet completed. Some parts of those are not clear. Therefore, Viet Nam needs and appeals a Applied Guideline on Securing Sustainable on Small-Scale Fisheries. Apart of presentation is Vietnamese case studies, in regarding to the small-scale governance of MAP propose and implementation of molusks, crabs, catfishes (Pangasius) spiny lobsters, tiger& white-leg shrimps… aquacultures will be introduced. Those experiences and development approaches can therefore compared and shared, and local particularities linked with the more general best practices, which probably emerge from those exchange.

Finally, at the national level, some inputs of the planning, strategic and policy development is increasingly interesting and targeting to small-scale fisheries and their dependent communities is marching innovated in Viet Nam. Moreover, national policy, legislation, governance and institutional arrangements need emphasizing rights-based management approaches and increased integration of small-scale fisheries.

Phan Hong Dung