The whole province still has 381 fishing boats that have not been registered or inspected.

According to information from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, through review, there are currently 381 fishing vessels in the province with the longest length from 6 m to under 12 m that have not been registered or inspected. Most of them are small fishing vessels with hulls made of bamboo or plastic (composite) with the longest length under 12 m, equipped with engines with a capacity of 5.8 - 66.2 kw. The above fishing vessels have not been registered due to the lack of documents prescribed in Circular 23/2018/TT-BNNPTNT, dated November 15, 2018 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The reason is that the fishing vessel owners in the coastal communes build these types of vessels at small facilities that have not been recognized as qualified to build vessels.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Huu Vinh said that in order to effectively manage fishing vessels in the province in accordance with the provisions of the Fisheries Law 2017, the Department has sent a document requesting the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to consider and amend Circular No. 23/2018/TT-BNNPTNT in the direction: For fishing vessels with a length from 6 m to less than 12 m that have been reported by localities, in the procedure for registering fishing vessels, replace the document approving the construction, conversion of fishing vessels and the certificate of origin with a declaration of the origin of the fishing vessel self-declared by the ship owner with confirmation from the local authority where the ship owner resides and the ship owner is responsible before the law for the declared information.

Propose that the tax authority when the ship owner declares registration tax in the case of the main engine installed on a fishing vessel without invoices or documents as prescribed be replaced by machine purchase documents between the parties with confirmation from the local authorities of the seller, or in the registration dossier consider removing the component of registration tax payment receipt/registration fee declaration with confirmation from the tax authority because fishing vessels are not subject to registration tax when carrying out registration procedures.

Consider regulating conditions and standards for facilities building new fishing vessels with lengths from 6 m to less than 12 m in coastal areas, especially for building bamboo-hulled or plastic-hulled vessels suitable to the production scale, technical process of building small-sized vessels, and economic conditions in coastal areas.

Le An

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