This study aims to answer how Indonesia's Policy in Overcoming the Trade in Lobster Seeds in Indonesia to Vietnam. The research method used is a qualitative method with descriptive research and data retrieval techniques through literature studies to describe and analyze how Indonesia's Policy in Overcoming the Lobster Seed Trade is increasingly mushrooming. This study uses the theory of international trade policy, namely Trade Protectionism. The results of the study found that the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries made policies in the form of Ministerial Regulation No. 1 of 2015 and Ministerial Regulation No. 56 of 2016. In implementing Permen-KP No. 1 of 2015 and Permen-KP No. 56 of 2016 the government was still unable to overcome smuggling and exploitation. which is still rampant and public awareness of lobsters that are over-exploited is still lacking.