Nhập mô tả cho ảnh Ca Mau (VNA) – The southernmost provinceof Ca Mau will revoke permanently licences of captains and fishing boats that operateillegally in foreign waters.
The measure, prescribed in Directive No. 11-CT/TUdated April 12, 2018 of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, aimsto put an end to illegal fishing activities of local boats and fishermen inforeign waters.
The board also asked all-level Party Committees, authorities,chapters of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, social-political organisations andrelevant agencies in the province to step up communications work in order toraise awareness of fishermen, especially owners and captains of off-shorefishing boats, about law observance.
Ca Mau will work, together with other coastal localitiesnationwide, to implement recommendations of the EC for the early lifting of theyellow card warning on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in Vietnam,according to the Directive.
The prevention of illegal fishing should be added toplans for 2018 and the following years of localities in the province, thedocument said.
Heads of Party Committees and administrations atlocal levels, along with heads of competent agencies should bear responsibilityfor any violations committed by fishing boats and fishermen under theirmanagement, it noted.
The provincial police and border guard forces are assignedto coordinate with each other to promptly investigate cases of fishing boatsand fishermen detained by foreign countries for illegal fishing.
Ca Mau held a conference on Vietnamese fishermen’sillegal fishing in foreign waters at the end of last March. At the event, ColonelNguyen Dinh Khuong, Vice Political Commissar of the Coast Guard Zone 3 HighCommand, reported the increasing number of violations committed by Vietnamesefishing boats in the south of the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand.
Some regional countries like Indonesia, thePhilippines, Malaysia and Thailand have intensified the operation of military andsurveillance vessels to protect their waters, while taking strong measures to handleinvolved fishing boats, he said.
According to the Ca Mau Border Guard Headquarters,as from October 2017, a total of 17 fishing boats of Ca Mau with 96 crew membersaboard have been arrested for violating foreign waters.-VNA
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