Vietnam: Binh Dinh strictly handles fishing vessels violating IUU

Published 2024년 7월 18일

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Hoai Nhon town in Binh Dinh province is taking steps to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by installing cruise monitoring equipment on fishing vessels and piloting electronic fishing vessel logbooks. The town has also reprimanded the Director of the Fishing Port Management Board for violating seafood origin certification. Despite these efforts, eight fishing boats from the province were arrested by Malaysian authorities for fishing outside their province. The province is struggling to manage fishing vessels that do not return, and is considering more measures to handle violating fishing vessels. The department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Binh Dinh province is working with Ba Ria - Vung Tau province to manage fishing vessels and has advised the Provincial People's Committee to take strong measures.

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Hoai Nhon town is the locality with the largest number of tuna fishing vessels in Binh Dinh province. This locality once had fishing vessels violating regulations against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Currently, fishing vessels in Hoai Nhon town with a length of over 15m have installed cruise monitoring equipment and are piloting electronic fishing vessel logbooks. The People's Committee of Hoai Nhon town has disciplined and reprimanded Mr. Nguyen Minh Khai, Director of the Fishing Port Management Board and Urban Services of Hoai Nhon town, for violating the certification of seafood origin that units of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has warned. Thanks to the efforts of local authorities, fishermen are increasingly complying well, so the situation of fishing vessels violating foreign waters has been overcome. “Currently, I have 2 cruise monitoring devices installed, because the last trip lost too much connection to the cruise monitoring device, ...

Source: Vov