Illustrative image (Source: VNA) The department said that local authorities have sentwarning messages to 6,673 fishing vessels that stayed unconnected for six hours,along with 179 others with no VMS signals for more than 10 days.
The agencies collected fines totaling 822 million VND (33,367USD) from vessels found to be in violation of the regulations.
As part of its efforts to strengthen control over movementsof fishing vessels, the department is working closely with other forces to manage the fleet of fishing vessels in the locality, erasing theregistration of vessels that no longer operate, and encouraging vesselsto strictly follow regulations in registration, VMS installation, and foodsafety rules.
The province has deployed personnel to be on duty 24/7 atonshore stations to monitor and supervise all fishing vessels operating at seathrough the fishing vessel monitoring system, while strictly handling violations of regulations and illegal crossing of sea borders.
Currently, Ba Ria-Vung Tau has 4,578 operating fishingvessels, including 2,745 offshore ones, 96.72% of which haveinstalled VMS.
Nguyen Van Tho, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said that it has requested the provincial Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment and the Border Guard High Command as well as localities across theprovince to further review and handle vessels with expired registration andthose without VMS signals.
The committee has also asked for tightened control overorigin traceability and the issuance of export licences at fishing ports, andthe installation of cameras to manage movements of vessels at ports and thevolume of seafood handled by ports./.
VNA
