This profile covers a Vietnamese penaeid shrimps nei fishery, focusing on rainbow shrimp Parapenaeopsis sculptilis, spear shrimp Parapenaeopsis hardwickii, and also jinga shrimp Penaeus affinis and Indian white prawn Penaeus indicus in smaller proportions. The stock structure of these shrimp species, distributed along the Indo-West Pacific region (Holthuis, 1980; Thanh, 2006), is not known. The map below regards Vietnamese waters.