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| The sandy beach at the foot of Rong Mountain in Nghi Thiet commune has long been a place where many local women have made a living catching oysters. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Under the midday sun of 39 - 40 degrees Celsius, groups of women from the coastal village still patiently sit on the sand to find and remove oysters. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Oysters are a type of marine mollusk that lives attached to rocks, wooden pillars, concrete pillars and scattered on sandy beaches. They often stick together in blocks, clusters, and many individuals. Among the chaos of oyster shells, it is difficult to detect live oysters. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| When going to catch oysters along the coast, people often rely on the tide. Every day, they go to the beach in the morning, catch oysters through noon, and only leave when the tide begins to rise. At noon, the sun is at its highest point, and they work under their own small shadow. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Oysters cling tightly to rocks or to each other. When live oysters are found, oyster catchers often use a small knife to pry open the oysters and split each oyster to get the intestines. Photo: Huy Thu
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| Ms. Pham Thi Nghia (56 years old) in Rong hamlet, Nghi Thiet commune said: Catching oysters requires a lot of skill and skill, otherwise it is easy to get a knife to cut your hand, bleed, or get your limbs pierced by the oyster shell, causing infection.... Photo: Huy Thu |
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| According to the experience of local people, finding oysters on sand is easy, but you will get few oysters, but finding oysters in muddy places is difficult but you will "hit" a big nest. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Among the people who go oyster catching on the beach, some catch oysters to improve their family meals, while the majority catch oysters to sell for extra income. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| They open the shells of the oysters they find to get the oysters' intestines, put them in plastic bowls or plastic tubes; others leave the shells intact and take the whole oysters home. Oysters can be processed into many delicious and nutritious dishes, such as oyster soup, oyster hotpot, grilled oysters... so they are quite easy to consume. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| When the tide begins to rise, the oyster catchers on the beach will pack up their tools and leave. The oysters, both whole and shell, are usually sold to roadside traders for 100,000 VND/kg. Every day, a person who goes out to catch oysters at noon can earn about 120,000 - 150,000 VND. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| The hard work of catching oysters in the dry season at Nghi Loc beach. Video: Huy Thu |
