Commercial lobster farming on Binh Ba island

The enlightenment of lobster farming with cages and rafts in Binh Ba has brought the products of lobster, blue lobster and red lobster into specialties of the whole South Central region.

Binh Ba in Cam Ranh City (Khanh Hoa provine) is considered as the "lobster island" because it is home to a lot of lobster farms. Loster farming is the profession which brings the main income for the islanders (Photo: VNA)

Aerial shot of Binh Ba island, Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA)

While other farming areas are seriously polluted by the amount of waste from the lobster feed bags dumped into the sea, the farming area outside Binh Ba Island still retains the necessary clean water for lobster development (Photo: VNA)

Depending on the age and size of the shrimps, farmers will classify and feed different foods such as crab, oysters ... whole or pounded (Photo: VNA)

Lobster is one of the very expensive seafood species but few people know that to feed them, the fishermen every day have to dive deep underwater (Photo:VNA)

With a full range of equipment such as snorkel, diving goggles ... fishermen are equipped for another day at work (Photo: VNA)

Rock cliffs and hills are favorable conditions for lobster farming (Photo: VNA)

In order to farm lobster, farmers have to dive for tens of meters deep in the sea and sometimes have to bet on their lives to catch lobster (Photo: VNA)

Immediately after picking up from the water, lobsters are immediately transferred to the boat (Photo: VNA)

A sight at the lobster farming boat (Photo: VNA)

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Very fresh lobsters are preserved in specialized cages for transportation to consumption places (Photo: VNA)

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