Ms. Ria-Vung Tàu set up a special task force to deal with fishing vessels lost connection during the exploitation of fisheries

Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province established a special task force against IUU exploitation.

The task of this organization is to develop a plan, organize verification on the cause of Ba Ria province fishing vessel - Vung Tàu has mounted cruise monitoring device lost connection signal from 6 hours to less than 10 days.

Analyze, evaluate, propose to transfer the file to competent authorities for handling violations in accordance with the provisions of law; proactively propose solutions to solve difficulties and obstacles.

The provincial NNPTNT department is a permanent agency, responsible for closely coordinating, monitoring, supervising and evaluating the results of implementing work on processing fishing vessels that have lost connection to tracking devices from 6 hours to 10 days.

It is known that there are 4,448 fishing vessels in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, of which 2,703 (accounting for 60. 77%). The number of fishing vessels from 15 meters and above has been installed with VMS equipment reaches 2,626 / 2,703 fish (97. 15%), operating license 2,052 /2,703 (75. 92%), ATTP certification 2,341/2,703 (86. 61%) and renewal registration inspection 2,078 ships (reached 76. 88%).

As for the unregistered, uninspected and unlicensed fishing vessels, there are 1,140 in the province.

It is expected that in October this year, the European Commission (EC) will conduct its fifth round of inspections on IUU fishing in Vietnam. The fifth inspection is an important milestone for Vietnam to remove yellow cards before EU elections.