Urgent to prevent fishing vessels from violating foreign waters

In order to prevent and handle fishing vessels and fishermen violating foreign waters, the Provincial People's Committee has just issued a document requesting coastal agencies, units and localities to concentrate resources, lead and direct the urgent implementation of a number of urgent and key tasks related to this issue.

Agencies, units and localities identify the task of preventing and handling local fishing vessels violating foreign waters as a priority, key and urgent task at the local level; mobilize the peak period of resources of the entire political system to participate, especially at the grassroots level, to strengthen communication on combating IUU fishing to raise the sense of responsibility of the fishing community and related organizations and individuals in complying with the law, not violating IUU fishing, and resolutely and strictly handling violations.

The Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Agriculture and Environment to preside over monitoring and controlling fishing vessel activities at sea 24/24 hours through the fishing vessel monitoring system (VMS). When detecting fishing vessels operating near the border and losing VMS connection near the border with other countries at a distance of 10 nautical miles, notify, warn and contact the ship owner and captain to request to turn on the VMS device; do not take the fishing vessel beyond the permitted boundary for fishing at sea. Notify the Provincial Border Guard Command, District People's Committee, Provincial Police and relevant organizations and individuals to coordinate in controlling fishing vessel activities.

At the same time, direct relevant units to strictly implement regulations on inspecting fishing vessels when leaving/arriving at ports and when operating at sea; strictly handle violations. Strengthen coordination with border guards, relevant agencies, units and localities to launch peak patrols, inspect fishing activities at sea and strictly handle violations.

The Provincial Border Guard Command has a firm grasp of key areas where fishermen, ship owners, and brokers are at high risk of violating foreign waters; assigns soldiers to be in charge of one or a group of fishing vessels and fishermen at high risk of violating foreign waters to propagate, mobilize, monitor, promptly prevent and handle violations according to the provisions of law; conducts peak periods of regular patrols and controls at river mouths, inlets, beaches, and coastal islands to detect and strictly handle fishermen and fishing vessels violating the law, especially fishing vessels that are not qualified to participate in fishing activities, violating VMS regulations...

The People's Committees of coastal districts, towns and cities (Tuy An, Song Cau, Dong Hoa and Tuy Hoa) manage and monitor the status and anchorage positions of fishing vessels that do not meet the conditions for local fishing activities; coordinate in notifying, warning and contacting ship owners and captains to request proper implementation of regulations when fishing activities, regulations on VMS equipment, and not to take fishing vessels beyond the permitted fishing boundaries at sea.

It is known that Phu Yen province currently has more than 3,000 fishing vessels registered on the national fishing vessel data system, of which about 660 fishing vessels specialize in exploiting the open sea.

Source: https://baophuyen.vn/xa-hoi/202505/cap-bach-ngan-chan-tau-ca-vi-pham-vung-bien-nuoc-ngoai-6665816/