A dawn fish market on the lagoon shore at Thai Duong, where the night's catch from the lagoon and the open sea is sorted, weighed, and sold to wholesalers from Hue. The market is in full swing by 5 am and almost finished by 7 — it is not a tourist-facing operation, just a working fish landing on the edge of one of Vietnam's most productive lagoons.
For anyone curious about a Vietnamese coastal economy on the smallest scale, it is worth the early start. The species change with the season: small mackerel and anchovy through the spring, blue crab and shrimp through the summer, and clams and oysters year-round.