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| Border guards always accompany fishermen in natural disaster prevention. Photo: NHU THAO |
To help fishermen organize safe seafood exploitation and proactively handle incidents, prevent natural disasters, rescue at sea, in recent times, the City Border Guard Command has coordinated with departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of localities that manage fishing vessels to focus on promoting propaganda and mobilizing fishermen to join the Solidarity Group for Seafood Exploitation. The model of Solidarity Group for Seafood Exploitation at Sea is formed according to the principle of the same profession, same fishing grounds, same residential area.
The model is voluntary, supporting each other in times of difficulty in the process of exploiting and catching seafood at sea. During the implementation process, agencies and units regularly review and strengthen established teams and guide the teams to improve operational efficiency.
Up to now, 94 seafood exploitation solidarity groups have been established in the city, with 680 fishing vessels participating. Of these, 85 groups, with 575 vessels operating in offshore areas. After a long fishing trip at sea, fisherman Truong Van Phuong (owner of the DNa 90052 TS boat, group 12, Xuan Ha ward, Thanh Khe district), shared: "Not only sharing about fishing grounds, the vessels and boats in the seafood exploitation solidarity group also support and help each other in the process of fishing at sea, especially when there are situations, incidents, and natural disasters".
Not only supporting and helping each other at sea, the seafood exploitation solidarity groups are also the contact points with the maritime information monitoring department of the border posts under the city's Border Guard. Through information from fishing boats, the Border Guard continuously updates weather developments, fishing boats in distress, and foreign ships violating the sovereignty of the sea and islands.
Lieutenant Colonel Dinh Ngoc Minh Son, Political Commissar of Phu Loc Border Guard Station, said: Through the seafood exploitation solidarity groups, the unit propagates and guides legal regulations for boat owners to raise awareness of law compliance, not to violate regulations against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing; at the same time, actively participate in protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.
In the Central region, the rough sea season usually lasts from the 10th lunar month of the previous year to the 3rd lunar month of the following year. Therefore, the maritime information monitoring units of the border stations: Hai Van, Phu Loc, Son Tra, Non Nuoc regularly monitor weather information, notify and guide ships to proactively escape from dangerous areas, and promptly receive incidents of ship distress for handling. In addition, units under the city's Border Guard actively coordinate with local Party committees, authorities, and organizations to organize programs to present national flags and photos of Uncle Ho; give life jackets, first aid kits, life buoys, etc. to fishermen.
It can be said that the effective maintenance of Solidarity Groups for exploiting seafood at sea, along with the timely and practical support of the City Border Guard, has helped fishermen to be more confident in going out to sea, sticking to the sea, and contributing with the forces to firmly protect the sacred sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.
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Source: https://baodanang.vn/xa-hoi/202506/diem-tua-giup-ngu-dan-vuon-khoi-bam-bien-4008028/
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