Competent authorities have handled violations relating to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) with fines amounting to hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Nguyen Nam Tien has recently paid a working visit to Mafia island district in Pwani province to learn about the local socio-economic development, the current state of infrastructure and transport connectivity between the island and the mainland.

VOV.VN - Vietnam exported Tra (Pangasius) fish products to 139 countries and territories worldwide during the opening eight months of the year, earning US$994.2 million, up 8.8% year on year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam exported 15,870 tonnes of tuna worth US$73.33 million to the European Union in the first half of 2021, up 39.3 % and 31.6 %, respectively, against the same period last year, according to a journal published by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The south-central province of Binh Thuan found no cases of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by local farmers from July 2019 to mid-2021, heard a conference on September 24.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is striving to end illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) in 2021, as part of the country’s common efforts for the European Commission’s removal of the “yellow card” on Vietnamese fisheries sector.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the preliminary results of the 17th period of review (POR17) for the period from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020, regarding Vietnam’s tra and basa fish (pangasius) exported to the US.

Deputy head of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control Tran Quang Hoai has asked municipal and provincial steering committees and local border guards to call on vessels to avoid the upcoming typhoon.

Vietnam hopes to further foster agricultural collaboration with Belgium, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said at a meeting with the Belgium side in Brussels on September 9.

Vietnam must put an end to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in a bid to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” removed by the end of 2021, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a virtual meeting on the issue on September 7.