Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) is the lagest multidiscipline centre for scientific research and technology development of Vietnam. VAST carries out the selected fundamental research, key and priority directions of natural science and technology, given by government. Amung the key and priority directions of research of VAST an important policy belong to the direction of marine science and technology and the task on investigation and research of marine resources and environment. In an organization structure VAST haves more than 30 institutes with about 4000 scientific staffs. In this number four institutes are specialized on the direction of marine science and technology as institute of oceanography, institute of marine resource and environment, institute of marine geology and geophysics, institute of marine biochemistry and some another institutes have most or many activities related to marine research and investigation. These institutes have long time of development with strong capacity for marine research and investigation.