In the last days of April, many Vietnamese fishermen in Quang Binh Province were tremendously shocked when discovering thousands of dead fish drifted to the beach. The amount of dead fish was over two tons. This mass death of fish caused colossal damage to the income of the local fishermen. They also shared that they did not dare to eat dead fish because they feared the toxic substance in dead fish would go into their bodies and harm their health.

Immediately, the government asked for the investigation of fish death. The cause was discovered by some fishermen who dived for quite a long time to detect the source of toxic substance. Surprisingly, they found the toxic waste was pumped directly to the water through the pipe from a company named Formosa which produced iron like nearby. The story is raising a wave of rage from Vietnamese.

Right now, Vietnam is taking all the possible measures to reject the toxic from the water and support food for the citizen whose life is dependent on selling fish. The United Nations also expressed the willing to help Vietnam and gave condolence to the local.

This is a very painful lesson to Vietnam. Vietnam should take more notice of protecting its marine environment and take strong measure on punishing terrible behaviors that cause marine pollution.