Bac Lieu considers combating IUU fishing as an urgent, important, and long-term task to ensure the sustainable development of its fishery industry, said a provincial leader.

Since the beginning of this year, Kien Giang province has imposed administrative fines on 15 VMS-related cases, totalling 760 million VND, down 11 cases compared the same period last year. Additionally, 35 cases related to IUU fishing have been handled, with total fines of over 325 million VND

Strong moves have been made to handle the vessels infringing foreign waters, violating VMS rules, not entering ports for unloading as regulated, or failing to meet operational conditions.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has requested putting an end to the situation that fishing vessels are operating at sea but they are unmanageable.

The south-central province of Khanh Hoa has gained encouraging results from the pilot application of the eCDT software to track fishing vessels, including their locations and operations, helping prevent illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The south-central province of Binh Thuan will take drastic measures to end the state in which fishing boats loss their vessel monitoring system (VMS) connection at sea in a move to clamp down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien on September 18 ordered the central province of Thua Thien – Hue to tighten control over offshore fishing vessels in an effort to clamp down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is ramping up actions to thoroughly deal with ineligible fishing vessels, in an effort to enhance fishing management, protect marine fishery resources, and help with the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Round-the-clock inspections have helped the central coastal province of Quang Tri make significant progress in its fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The People’s Committee of the south-central province of Binh Thuan on July 1 asked agencies to strengthen supervision of fishing vessels that are likely to infringe on foreign waters as one of its drastic measures against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The European Commission (EC) has rescheduled an inspection on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Vietnam from May to this upcoming autumn, according to Director of the Fisheries Resources Surveillance Department Nguyen Quang Hung.

The Government has ordered harsh punishments on any violation of vessel-monitoring-system (VMS) rules in a move to get the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” against the Vietnamese seafood products for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing lifted.

The People’s Committee of the south-central province of Binh Thuan on May 7 requested extra efforts to resolutely not let any local fishing vessels and fishermen violate foreign waters so as to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The People's Committee of the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau has issued a plan to launch a peak month in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities, and prepared for the 5th working session with the European Commission (EC)’s inspection team.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has seen successes in combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with no violations by its fishing vessels reported since 2022.

The central province of Quang Nam has said that it is exerting efforts to prevent the state in which fishing boats losing vessel monitoring system (VMS) signals as it is an effective measure to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The south central province of Khanh Hoa has been taking comprehensive measures to tighten control over fishing vessels as part of its efforts to combat illegal, reported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The People's Committee of the northern central province of Thanh Hoa on March 13 held a conference to deploy urgent tasks and solutions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has urged relevant quarters to prevent fishing vessels from encroaching on foreign waters, and take stringent measures against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities.

The central coastal province of Quang Ngai has mobilised its entire political system in the fight against the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and reaped significant results in this regard.