Installing Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) equipment and supervising their operations play an important role in removing the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” warning on Vietnamese seafood.
Vietnam’s coast guards have been working closely with localities to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) with concerted measures over the past years.
The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau will set up three inter-sectoral checkpoints at sea to supervise the operation of fishing vessels in an effort to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
VOV.VN - The border guard of Binh Thuan province and the Port Authority of Binh Thuan have successfully brought ashore 11 stevedores on board a vessel in trouble in the area off the province’s coast.
VOV.VN - HMS Spey, the British Royal Navy’s offshore patrol vessel, anchored at Ho Chi Minh City’s port on February 7, marking the start of a five-day friendship visit to the southern city on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
VOV.VN - Relevant forces are attempting to put out a blaze which broke out on the Panama-flagged AH SHIN in the waters off Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, southern Vietnam.
Travel firms are offering tours lasting for two or three days to satisfy the increasing demand during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.
No cases of violation of foreign waters have been recorded by Phu Yen province’s fishing vessels since 2019, according to the provincial Department of Fisheries.
The south-central province of Binh Dinh is determined to have no local fishing boats violating foreign waters in the next six months before the European Commission (EC) review the “yellow card” against Vietnamese fisheries sector, according to Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Ho Quoc Dung.
The central coastal province of Thanh Hoa has made public a list of 344 fishing vessels showing high risks of violating regulations against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.