Secretary of Ben Tre province’s Party Committee Le Duc Tho asked localities and competent forces to strictly handle violations of fishing regulations at a meeting on fighting the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on October 14.
Ben Tre (VNA) – Secretary of Ben Treprovince’s Party Committee Le Duc Tho asked localities and competent forces tostrictly handle violations of fishingregulations at a meeting on fighting the illegal, unreported and unregulated(IUU) fishing on October 14.
The Mekong Delta province has taken an array ofmeasures, in line with the government's resolve to have theEuropean Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” removed as early as possible.
Ben Tre has stepped up coordination with informationand communion agencies to raise public awareness of relevant regulations.
Competent agencies and local authorities have kept aclose watch on the registration of vessels, the installation of monitoringdevices and the operation of local fishing boats at sea, especially largeboats going deep sea fishing, and strictly handled violations.
For boats that register in Ben Tre butoperate in other localities, Tho required coordination with those localities in supervision work.
He also urged the coastal guard force to boost inspections to prevent any boats not meeting regulations from going to sea, and quickly detect and punish boats violating foreign waters, fishing illegally, and or involving in the organisation of illegal exit from and entry into Vietnam.
According to the provincial People’s Committee, upto 98.8 percent of fishing boats meeting requirements in Ben Tre have installed monitoring devices.
Since the beginning of this year, competent forceshave found seven fishing boats violating foreign waters. Four of them were fined a total 3.2 billion VND(140,600 USD), while papers for punishment for the three others are being completed. /.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has handed out tasks to relevant ministries and agencies with view to achieving the target of eradicating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by the end of 2021.
Competent authorities have handled violations relating to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) with fines amounting to hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong.
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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
