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Long Son Seafood Company Ltd

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Long Son Seafood Company Ltd

Công ty TNHH Thủy sản Chà Và Long Sơn

Site

address
Village 8, Long Son Ward
city
Vung Tau
region
Ba Ria-Vung Tau
postalCode
790000
country
Vietnam
Local: Thôn 8, Xã Long Sơn, Thành Phố Vũng Tàu, Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu

Crimes & Concerns

  1. Fishing
  2. Environment

Long Son Seafood Company Ltd is directly associated with fishing concerns such as unsustainability and environmental issues such as general pollution and air pollution.

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Environment
In October 2017, Long Son Seafood Processing was listed among 40 seafood processing plants that caused environmental pollution in a report by Ba Ria Vung Tau’s People’s Council. These plants had previously been sanctioned on several occasions for the discharge of pollutants into the local environment, according to a 2017 article in Nong nghiep moi truong.
On October 29, 2024, the People’s Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province fined Long Son Seafood Processing more than $4,000 for air pollution. Provincial officials ordered the company to implement measures to rectify the environmental pollution and report the corrective actions within 20 days of receiving the decision. The company also delayed payments for social, health, unemployment, and occupational accident insurance to its employees for several months.
Fishing
In 2020, Long Son Seafood Processing Company joined the Vung Tau Fishery Improvement Project (FIP), a program that claims to help make participating fisheries more sustainable. The dominant species targeted through the FIP have been Bigeye scad, Greater lizardfish, Blunt-nose lizardfish, Yellowtail scad, and Sulphur goatfish. Of these five species, four were found to be overexploited.Plants and their parent companies routinely use involvement in FIPs and other such programs as evidence of their environmental stewardship, even when participation in them does not result in actual improvement in the health of the relevant fishery. As of 2025, Long Son Seafood Processing Company remained part of the FIP despite the decline of these species in the region.

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In October 2017, Long Son Seafood Processing was listed among 40 seafood processing plants that caused environmental pollution in a report by Ba Ria Vung Tau’s People’s Council.1 These plants had previously been sanctioned on several occasions for the discharge of pollutants into the local environment, according to a 2017 article in Nong nghiep moi truong.2

In 2020, Long Son Seafood Processing Company joined the Vung Tau Fishery Improvement Project (FIP), a program that claims to help make participating fisheries more sustainable.3 The dominant species targeted through the FIP have been Bigeye scad, Greater lizardfish, Blunt-nose lizardfish, Yellowtail scad, and Sulphur goatfish.4 Of these five species, four were found to be overexploited.5Plants and their parent companies routinely use involvement in FIPs and other such programs as evidence of their environmental stewardship, even when participation in them does not result in actual improvement in the health of the relevant fishery. As of 2025, Long Son Seafood Processing Company remained part of the FIP despite the decline of these species in the region.6

On October 29, 2024, the People’s Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province fined Long Son Seafood Processing more than $4,000 for air pollution.7 Provincial officials ordered the company to implement measures to rectify the environmental pollution and report the corrective actions within 20 days of receiving the decision.8 The company also delayed payments for social, health, unemployment, and occupational accident insurance to its employees for several months.9

Long Son Seafood Company did not respond to a request for comment.10

Minh Phat Fishmeal Plant
In July 2017, Ca Mau provincial authorities fined this plant more than $2,000 for environmental violations, according to a Wildlight report.11 On April 25, 2019, workers in the same industrial park witnessed employees from Minh Phat dumping hazardous waste and oil-soaked rags outside the company gate to be burned, reported Moi Truong.12

Minh Phat did not respond to a request for comment.13

Stink Radius

Long Son Seafood Company Ltd
DistancePeople
5 miles: 283,364
3 miles: 64,714
1 mile: 2,718
0.5 miles: 975
* individuals under the age of 15

At least 900 people lived within a half mile of this plant while more than 283,300 lived within a five-mile radius according to 2025 data from World Pop, a research institute based at the University of Southampton. This matters because it gives a sense of how many neighbors experience the quality of life concerns and health impacts of the foul stench of rotting fish and other toxic chemicals released into the air.