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Abstract
The research on the current state of marine fisheries resource protection in the coastal and inshore waters of Ninh Thuan province provides a scientific basis to improve the effectiveness of marine fisheries resource protection and offers management solutions for the sustainable fisheries. Based on the survey to collect secondary and primary data in Ninh Thuan province from 2022 to June 2023. The results show that the specialized fisheries inspection force in Ninh Thuan province is still lacking, officers at commune and ward levels do not have expertise in fisheries. The situations of breaching legal in fishery activities are still occurring in some fishing: 100% of fishing vessels work as trawls, stick-held falling and traps fishing violate mesh size, this rate in anchovy purse seine is 53.1% respectively; 9.3% of fishing vessels with the largest length from 6-<12 m operate in the inshore water, 74.9% of fishing vessels from 12-<15 m often operate in the coastal water; especially for groups of fishing vessels <6 m that do not violate the fi shing areas; 100% of fishermen stated that catch is decreasing
Key words: Fishing gears, fishing areas, marine fisheries resources protection, Ninh Thuan province