Simão Zacarias has continued visits to our research project partners with travel in the Southern part of Vietnam. He went first to the College of Aquaculture and Fisheries at Can Tho University, where he met Tran Minh Phu who is leading two of the funded research projects. His projects are titled “Perceptions of farmed fish welfare by different stakeholders: a focus on small-scale fish farms in Mekong Delta” and “Evaluating the benefits and practicality of in-water electric stunning for Pangasius in a commercial harvest setting”. Simão also met some of Tran Minh Phu’s colleagues and students, and was shown some of the wet labs.

After visiting Can Tho, he met Pham Long from Tran Vinh University in Ho Chi Minh City, who is the research leader of another funded project which focus on “Addressing the aquatic animal welfare gaps in the Vietnamese education system”. Simão was pleased to learn that Pham is an alumni of the Institute of Aquaculture, completing his PhD there almost 10 years ago.