Resolutely stop fishing vessels violating IUU

When arrested, the authorities in Binh Thuan were shocked to learn that although the ship had the registration number Binh Thuan, the ship owner had sold it to another local owner. The transfer of the ship between the two ship owners did not include procedures to change the registration number or ship owner. Therefore, when notified by the foreign side, the ship was still a Binh Thuan ship. Notably, this ship was 15 meters shorter, so it was not equipped with a journey monitoring device (black box).

Binh Thuan currently has 100% of ships 15m or longer equipped with black boxes. To achieve this 100% rate, Binh Thuan plans to support each ship with 10 million VND for installation costs (about 50% of the cost).

To avoid a situation where a fishing boat collects many black boxes from other boats and then stays in legal waters to mislead inspection, while the boat that "sent" the black boxes goes fishing in overlapping waters... Binh Thuan requires wards and communes to grasp the itinerary of each boat and each boat owner when going to sea; set up monitoring teams at sea. When detecting a boat with the intention of violating fishing areas, the border guards on shore immediately coordinate with the authorities to go to the boat owner's house to call the fishing boat out to persuade and remind them.

Specialized agencies also continuously open training classes, distribute leaflets, and mobilize each family of ship owners to fight against IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing). At the same time, they continuously strictly control each fishing vessel going out to sea to fish, and strictly punish according to Decree 42/CP when detecting violations of regulations such as not recording the schedule in time, turning off the black box device, entering and leaving the fishing port without notification...

But the measure that the author believes needs to be further strengthened in the coming time is to attach responsibility to the governing body and especially the Party committee, government, and heads of agencies and units when fishing vessels violate IUU.

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