Each off-shore fishing boat is like a house, whose neighbors are sometimes one hundred miles away. Thanks to the "oral communication", the ships can help and support each other in hard times. "Oral communication" is interacting and exchanging between fishing vessels in the vast ocean.

The Vietnam Fisheries Society has criticized Indonesia’s illegal arrest and demanded the later to release Vietnamese fishermen and to return their boats, VnExpress reported.

The Vietnam Fisheries Society has strongly objected to China's actions after Chinese ships rammed and sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat by  near Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago in the East Sea (internationally known as South China Sea).