Malaysia and Vietnam must urgently work towards ridding their waters of illegal fishing, analysts said on Tuesday, as Hanoi pressed Kuala Lumpur for answers after a Vietnamese fisherman was shot dead by Malaysian maritime officials over the weekend. Dr Collin Koh, a Research Fellow at the RSIS in Singapore, said that “Vietnam does need to keep a tighter rein on its fishing community”. “There had been earlier warning signs leading up to this latest, most serious incident,” he said. “Just last September there was a stand-off between Malaysian and Vietnamese fishing patrols off Terengganu. One should also recall that [Hanoi] is still trying to get the European Union to remove its yellow card for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing for precisely such reasons.”