The involvement of fisher communities in ensuring the healthy development and exploitation of fishery resources is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable fisheries. With the fisher communities playing vital role in fisheries management, fishers should be integrated into the management systems and treated as key partners in management decisions, and most of all guaranteed appropriate rights to participate in the overall formulation of policies for fishing operations and relevant activities. In Southeast Asia where fishery resources are widely distributed, fisheries comanagement
or the system by which management responsibility is shared between government authorities and fishing communities constitute a new paradigm in managing the fishery resources. Particularly for Vietnam, the existing co-management approaches were modified and adapted in Ben Tre Province to examine their practicability in real field situations. It is envisaged that the results of this investigation could help policy makers in developing regulations and decisions towards the sustainable development of fisheries through the adoption of co-management approaches.