Light bulb to remove herring

At the end of April, fishermen in Tam Thanh commune, Tam Ky city, set out to catch herring in bamboo boats. In the evening, the boat docked, fishermen used batteries to light bright electric lights along the beach to remove fish.

Mr. Pham Minh, 50 years old, residing in Tam Thanh commune, said that the herring season after the Lunar New Year lasts until the end of the fourth lunar month. At 5:00 p.m. every day, each boat has two people who go out to sea more than a nautical mile from the shore to practice.

At sea, fishermen drop a net nearly 1,000 m long, 8 m wide. The top of the buoy is attached to the bottom, forming a long line. “This fish lives in the surface water layer, going in groups and encountering dense nets,” said Mr. Minh, and said that at 19:00, the nets were collected ashore. On many days, nearly a ton, on a few tens of kilograms.