Border guards at Vung Tau Port check documents and crew members on a fishing vessel at Cat Lo Port (Vung Tau City). |
The Fisheries and Fisheries Inspection Departments and local authorities reported on the results of their efforts to combat IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated) fishing and discussed key solutions and tasks to lift the EC's "yellow card" warning by August 30th. These focused on urgent tasks and solutions such as: preventing and handling fishing vessels and fishermen violating regulations on illegal fishing in foreign waters; enforcing laws and handling violations of regulations on disconnecting VMS (Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue System), exceeding permitted fishing boundaries at sea, and illegal fishing in foreign waters…
Ba Ria-Vung Tau province has 4,877 fishing vessels, of which nearly 50% are engaged in offshore fishing. The Provincial People's Committee has planned and local authorities are implementing a concentrated campaign to address outstanding issues in combating IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated) fishing in accordance with the EC's "yellow card" warning, handling 1,305 fishing vessels that do not meet operating requirements, strictly penalizing IUU violations, and updating information and identifying 711 fishing vessels without citizen identification information on the National Population Database and electronic authentication platform...
Text and photos: NGOC MINH
Source: https://baobariavungtau.com.vn/kinh-te/202506/tang-toc-go-the-vang-iuu-1045674/
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