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On the afternoon of October 14, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing chaired the 17th meeting of the Steering Committee, connecting online with 21 coastal provinces and cities. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee on combating IUU fishing, chaired the 17th meeting of the Steering Committee - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi. Finding the most radical solution to completely handle the ECs requests. Reporting at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Phung Duc Tien said that, from the 16th session (October 7), the number of fishing vessels is currently 80,884 ships. The number of licensed fishing vessels increased by 1,623 vessels. To date, there have been 27,990/28,225 fishing vessels (99.16%) installed with voyage monitoring equipment (VMS). Currently, the competent forces are strengthening law enforcement, resolutely preventing and thoroughly handling IUU fishing violations such as losing VMS connection, crossing maritime exploitation boundaries, and violating foreign waters. Luy from 2024 to date October 13, 2025, the competent forces have handled 26 ships, prosecuted 8 ships, and 57 ships are being verified and handled, 4 ships have unknown information; prosecuted 59 cases, 96 defendants, adjudicated 29 cases, 67 defendants. In the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment proposed that the Prime Minister direct the Ministry of Public Security to direct the review of the results of penalties for IUU violations, thoroughly handle violations of VMS connection loss, exceeding maritime exploitation boundaries, and violating foreign waters. The Ministry of National Defense continues to carry out peak patrols and control in bordering sea areas, preventing prevent additional ships from arising fish and fishermen violating foreign waters; Review and trace unqualified fishing vessels often anchored at estuaries, estuaries, beaches, and islands; Resolutely do not let unqualified fishing vessels enter or exit the port, and thoroughly handle any intentional violations. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Phung Duc Tien reported at the meeting - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi Localities continue to review and urgently grant exploitation licenses to qualified fishing vessels, and strictly manage unqualified fishing vessels; Focus on consolidating records, decisively punishing VMS violations, crossing maritime exploitation boundaries, and violating foreign waters. Concluding the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister first requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to urgently review and complete to submit to the Prime Minister to sign and promulgate the Peak Action Plan, urgently implement the IUU Yellow Card warning recommendation and prepare to work with the 5th Inspection Team of the European Commission (EC). The plan must be a practical operating tool, helping to clearly identify what needs to be done, with progress, products, implementers and responsible people, finding the most fundamental solutions to completely handle the requirements of the EC. Accordingly, tasks need to be clearly separated and assigned to each ministry and branch to proactively deploy, aiming at sustainable management of aquatic exploitation and fishing activities, protecting aquatic resources, with two central goals of development. sustainable and meets international requirements. Completing the national database on seafood exploitation Regarding a number of specific tasks, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha is especially interested in completing the national database on seafood exploitation in a synchronous, unified, multi-purpose way, and used by many different subjects. Specifically, state management agencies use data to license and monitor fishing activities. The port management board is used to control ships entering and leaving. Maritime law enforcement forces use it to detect and handle violations. Captains and ship owners use this data to record voyage logs, proving the origin of seafood exploitation. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that fishing logs and ship travel routes are two key factors in licensing, aiming for automatic licensing on a unified database platform. Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) must update the situation and ability to integrate ship databases. fish, grant exploitation permits, population, technology to determine the location of fishing vessels at sea... Viettel presides over building a data management software model. Ministries, branches and localities need to proactively coordinate and provide specific technical requirements for Viettel to complete the system. The Deputy Prime Minister requested to raise the penalty level to the highest level, adding strict handling measures for ships that violate sovereignty, intentionally repeat violations - Photo: VGP/Minh KhoiAccording to the Deputy Prime Minister, many data sources are available, the problem is integrating and applying modern technology to exploit more effectively, for example, detecting ships that cut their own number, do not have a registration number or lose the VMS signal for timely control. Request to soon develop regulations on exploitation, Managing and using data, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that data is an important technical foundation, but there must be clear regulations on access rights and scope of use: Who has access, to what extent is allowed to exploit, from captains, ship owners, port management boards to competent agencies. The Ministry of Agriculture andEnvironment is assigned to preside over drafting this regulation, coordinating with relevant ministries and branches. Other ministries play a supporting role in terms of technology, software and data to ensure the unity and synchronization of the system. At the same time, the data system must be st
