HCM City (VNA) – All the 28 coastal provinces have madeefforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and reapedpositive outcomes.
Accordingly, the percentage of fishing vessels with a lengthof 15m or more that have installed vessel monitoring systems (VMS) equipmentand have signals on related tracking system reached 90.87 percent, an increaseof 0.61 percent compared to that two years ago.
The situation of Vietnamese fishing vessels being arrestedand handled by foreign countries has been on the decline, with no cases detectedsince the beginning of October 2021.
For such outcomes, all the 28 localities have intensified their control of fishing vessels entering and leaving the ports, workers aboard, seafood throughputat ports, and the traceability of aquatic products in accordance withregulations.
Assisting these efforts, the Vietnam Association of SeafoodExporters and Producers (VASEP) has organised working trips to these areas toguide processing and export firms in implementing a series of seafood purchasingcriteria.
VASEP has cooperated with the departments of agriculture,fisheries sub-departments, and management boards of fishing ports in coastallocalities to help them promote advantages and solve difficulties in inspectingfishing vessels' arrival and departure; and recording and measuring the outputand species of seafood arriving at ports. Similar support also comes to createfavourable conditions for legal raw materials to be consumed at high prices,and for enterprises to have sufficient certificates of origin recognition forprocessing and export.
According to Nguyen Thi Thu Sac, VASEP Vice Chairwoman, itis hard to have the European Commission's “yellow card” on IUU removed if there are still vessels violating the law in foreign waters. Therefore, concerted efforts to eliminate such violations are necessary, she affirmed./.
Over the past four years, the Vietnamese fisheries sector has been implementing recommendations from the European Commission (EC) to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has made significant progress in accomplishing recommendations made by the European Commission (EC) on Vietnamese seafood as part of its efforts to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) 
