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Organisations, individuals involved in IUU fishing to be punished strictly

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on June 7 sent a document to the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of coastal provinces and cities on strictly handling organisations and individuals that let fishing vessels violate foreign waters for illegal fishing.
Organisations, individuals involved in IUU fishing to be punished strictly ảnh 1Fishing vessels (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on June7 sent a document to the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of coastalprovinces and cities on strictly handling organisations and individuals thatlet fishing vessels violate foreign waters for illegal fishing.

Provinces and cities have to complete the installation of vesselmonitoring systems (VMS) on fishing vessels as regulated, and strictly punishvessels that do not equip, or maintain operation of VMSs or disable or remove them during operation at sea. Those supplying low-quality systems willalso be handled strictly.

It is necessary to allocate people on duty around the clockto monitor the journey, and timely detect and address illegal, unreported, andunregulated (IUU) fishing in foreign waters.

The ministry also stressed the importance of disseminating regulationson IUU fishing prevention to ship owners, captains and fishermen.

It said that in the first months of 2021, some Vietnamesefishing vessels and fishermen still violated foreign waters, affecting the image andreputation of Vietnam, especially the country’s efforts to remove the EuropeanCommission (EC)’s “yellow card”.

In October 2017, Vietnam received a “yellow card” warningfor illegal seafood exploitation by the EC, which has seriously hit seafoodexports to the European market.

The EC also said that they will not withdraw the yellow cardif Vietnam has not solved the problem of fishing in foreign waters./.
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