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Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has urged localities to promptly take measures to prevent Vietnamese fishermen from illegally fishing in foreign waters.

The Prime Minister on May 28 issued an official dispatch urging urgent actions to curb and prevent illegal operation of Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen in foreign waters.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia is working with local authorised agencies to verify the information that 23 Vietnamese fishermen were allegedly arrested for illegal fishing in Malaysia’s territorial waters.

A meeting of the Technical Working Group on establishment of Regional Convention on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) and its related Crimes was held in Indonesia’s Surabaya city.

Indonesian authorities have so far captured nearly 580 Vietnamese fishermen for illegal fishing in the country’s waters.

Australia's Maritime Border Command on April 12 said they and the Australian Fisheries Management Authorities have captured a Vietnamese fishing boat with 15 fishermen for allegedly illegal fishing.

Indonesia on March 13 repatriated 27 Vietnamese fishermen who were detained from four months to over one year in Tarempa island for illegal fishing in Indonesia’s seas.

The Australia Border Forces (ABF) said on February 17 that they had detained 29 Vietnamese fishermen allegedly poaching sea cucumbers in the country’s waters.

Indonesia needs stricter measures to stop illegal fishing on its waters, said Susi Pudjiastuti, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries on January 17.

Indonesia seized 163 boats for illegal fishing on the countries’ waters last year, local news agency Antara reported on January 6.

It is necessary to work out synchronous measures to reduce the number of Vietnamese fishermen captured for illegal fishing in Indonesia’s territorial waters.

Thirty-nine Vietnamese fishermen arrested by Indonesia for illegal fishing were repatriated at the local Soekarno Hatta International Airport on November 15.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has arrested 27 Vietnamese fishermen for illegal fishing activities in the waters of its country.

Thai authorities have detained five Vietnamese fishing boats with 28 fishermen aboard for violating their territorial sea and illegal fishing.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) on October 12 seized a boat with 20 Vietnamese fishermen onboard for allegedly entering waters 26 nautical miles from Tanjung Sedili to the southeast.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has stressed the importance of global collaboration in combatting illegal fishing, which has become a transnational crime.

Three foreign fishing vessels captured for illegal catching in the Malaysia waters will be sunk near Lang Tengah ocean park in Besut to form artificial reefs.

Indonesia seized two Chinese fishing boats for fishing illegally off Indonesia’s northwest coast, near the Natuna islands.

Indonesia and the US will carry out joint patrols around Indonesian waters to combat human trafficking and illegal fishing.

Indonesian authorities announced on August 17 that dozens of foreign fishing vessels captured fishing illegally in the country’s waters were sunk.