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Chapter 5 Voices from CTU’s Staff and Students

5.1.2 Student of Master's Course (Climate Change and Integrated
Management of Coastal Aquaculture and Fisheries)

Ms. Mai Xuan Huong

Master student of Climate change and integrated
management of Coastal Aquaculture and Fisheries
Course: 27

Email: mxhuongkhcn@gmail.com

On behalf of the Ca Mau MSc students, I would like to express my emotional statements on the study
program given by Japanese and CTU professors.

Firstly, I would like to send our sincere thanks to CTU and Japanese professors, wishing you all
health, happiness, and prosperity.

Secondly, I would like to briefly introduce the strength of the aquaculture and fisheries sector of
Ca Mau, my home town. Ca Mau is located at the most southern tip of Viet Nam with a long coastline
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of 254 km and a fishing ground of 80,000 km . The fisheries reserves are abundant and diverse. The
number of fishing boats is over 4,600 in which there are approximately 1,600 boats with over 90 CV
(horse power) that can be captured offshore with an annual production of 200 thousand tons, creating
about 30 thousand jobs. The total area for aquaculture is approximately 300,000 ha, in which the main
culture species are black tiger shrimp and white leg shrimp producing a total export turnover of more
than 1 USD billion in 2020. Ca Mau has determined aquaculture is the spearhead economic sector of
the province. Therefore, the province has attempted to issue many policies to attract investors for
investments in different areas, including fisheries product processing, fisheries ingredients trading, fish
paste processing, dry fish, fish sauces, fishing boats, and fisheries logistics.

In the situation of stronger and severe climate changes affecting directly socio-economic
development and livelihood of people in the MD in general and Ca Mau in particular with the
phenomena of increased temperature, serious trough, saline intrusion, regular tornado, spring tide and
river bank erosion that occur more and more complexly, we are aware of that complicated problem and
therefore need to learn to adapt well to the situation.
I am very honored and happy to be a student of this MSc program, Course 27, to learn new and
precious knowledge and experiences, especially from Japanese professors. For example, the seminar
offered by Prof. Atsushi Ishimatsu on the effects of temperature and CO on aquatic animals is a
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wonderful event that inspired my classmates and me to proceed in study and research. This excellence I
can feel from both the offer and receiver. The professor’s delegation was very friendly and enthusiastic
and had severe and professional working styles that made me admire and have a love feeling. Although
the seminar topic was only about climate change, it made me feel that I have accessed a higher level
of professional style in research and working and upgraded the generalized view on effects of climate

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