Strictly handle organizations and individuals violating anti-IUU fishing

Accordingly, the Department of Agriculture and Environment is assigned to preside over, together with the Provincial Border Guard Command, the Provincial Police, relevant departments, branches and localities to thoroughly grasp the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha in Official Dispatch No. 3055/VPCP-NN mentioned above. Proactively organize and seriously implement, achieving results of the tasks assigned to the locality.

Authorities check administrative procedures of fishing vessels at sea.

It is known that, through the report of the Ministry of National Defense on the situation and results of combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the first quarter of 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment , Foreign Affairs, Public Security and People's Committees of 28 coastal provinces and centrally-run cities, according to their assigned functions and tasks, to continue to coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense and proactively coordinate closely with each other to direct strict and timely handling of organizations and individuals violating the law on combating IUU fishing. Focus on investigating, consolidating records, prosecuting and trying detected cases, making records of violations, arresting, and widely communicating information on mass media.

In addition, continue to focus on directing the serious, drastic and effective implementation of key and urgent tasks and solutions to combat IUU fishing in accordance with the direction of the Secretariat, the Government, the Prime Minister , the Deputy Prime Minister - Head of the National Steering Committee on IUU, determined to remove the EC's "Yellow Card" warning at the 5th inspection.

According to the report of the Ministry of National Defense, in the first quarter of 2025, it directed units and forces to resolutely implement measures to combat IUU fishing and consulted with local Party committees and authorities to propagate and disseminate legal education to fishermen to raise awareness of regulations on combating IUU fishing. Therefore, the situation of fishing vessels violating regulations being administratively sanctioned has decreased sharply. However, the situation of Vietnamese fishing vessels being arrested for illegal fishing in foreign waters has not ended, due to the poor compliance of a few ship owners and captains. Despite being warned, for economic benefits, they deliberately turned off VMS equipment, erased license plates to avoid authorities to violate...

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