Three out of the five Vietnamese businesses, which have formed limited liability companies in Indonesia, have been verified and received certificates of lobster cultivation from the Directorate General of Aquaculture, according to Indonesia’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

“Lobster debt can only cleared with lobster!,” declared Nguyen Thanh Nhon, the “Lobster King” of Song Cau town in the coastal province of Phu Yen.

A Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development master plan to develop lobster cultivation to 2020 with a vision to 2030 aims to make lobster farming a key economic sector in the central region.