Aquatic Species In Thi Vai River

It was a really big scandal on the papers. The scandal is infamously known as the Vedan scandal. Vedan is a sweet powder company that has been manufacturing and disposing unprocessed liquid waste straight into the Thi Vai river. After the people of the region acted up too much, the Ministry of Natural Resources finally decided to act. After a 3-month investigation, the company was found to be the "Killer" of the river. Since 1997, the river has had alarming levels of pollution with a reported 50 - 70% decrease in aquatic populations including bottom feeders like crabs. After the 2008 event, the river started to recover. In 2015, prawns and fish actually came back to the river, not just dead fish and dead shells. Well, that is good news but now, the people living there are starting to kill it again, not any company, the people. During the "Vedan time" the number of boats out fishing on the river was 5, by 2015, 45. With this, they will over-harvest the river's aquatic populations soon. It is evident through the decrease in revenue of the fishermen: "Each boat used to make 1 million VND a day. Now, there is less fish and prawn but I can still make around 400 thousand VND a day." It seems for the Thi Vai river, it's either large scale pollution or large scale over-harvesting.