Vietnam will investigate and handle all cases of the country’s fishing vessels being arrested by foreign countries, strictly punish all acts related to illegal fishing in the foreign waters and name them on the mass media, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.
The southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau is protecting seafood resources and developing aquaculture sustainably, with local authorities preventing destructive fishing activities and encouraging farmers to apply advanced techniques.
The total aquatic catching and production of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang fetched 836,175 tones in 2020, surpassing the yearly target by 10.75 percent, according to a local official.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang had a working session on October 16 with the host country’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo to exchange views on measures to intensify bilateral marine and fisheries cooperation.
Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang are working out measures to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) activities in an effort to remove the yellow card warning of the European Commission (EC).
Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has ordered relevant ministries, sectors and authorities of 28 coastal localities to implement measures to stop IUU fishing by fishing ships in international waters.
A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development led by Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong on July 25 inspected fish farming and fishing activities as well as coastal erosion in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.
As the fishing season from April through September has begun, the fisheries resources surveillance force has been strengthening patrols to support Vietnamese fishermen and minimise violations by foreign fishing ships in the country’s seas.
The 15-year implementation of the Vietnam-China agreement on fishery cooperation on the Tonkin Gulf was the focus of a scientific seminar held in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on March 31.
The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau has installed monitoring devices on 80 fishing vessels, or 30 percent of total boats subject to the installation scheme’s first phase, aiming to enhance the efficiency of management over fishing activities.
The fishery sector needs to take actions to convince the European Commission (EC) to remove a “yellow card” warning on Vietnamese seafood so as to realise the set target of 9 billion USD in export turnover this year.
The European Commission (EC) has taken note of Vietnam’s efforts in addressing illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and its inspectors will return to Vietnam in January next year to review progress in addressing its ‘yellow card’ warning.
Two years since the marine pollution incident in the central region in April 2016, the lives of coastal residents in Quang Binh province have returned to normal.
The Thai delegation to the 2018 Seafood Expo Global in Brussels, Belgium has informed European Union officials of Thailand's progress in resolving illegal fishing in the country.
Fishermen in the central coastal province of Phu Yen has been encouraged to maintain fishing activities in Vietnam’s territorial waters after China promulgated a temporary ban on fishing activities in the East Sea.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has said that China’s temporary ban of fishing activities in Vietnam’s territorial waters is worthless.
The central city of Da Nang is stepping up the dissemination of legal regulations on offshore fishing activities to curb IUU fishing in order to tackle the European Commission’s IUU yellow card.
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