📋 Tender Overview
On August 28, the Peoples Committee of Khanh Hoa province organized a launch of peak emulation throughout the province to prevent and stop the situation of illegal fishing, not reporting and not as prescribed (IUU), aiming to remove the yellow card of the European Commission (EC) for Vietnamese seafood. Representatives of departments, branches, functional forces and coastal localities in Khanh Hoa signed the anti -IUu covenant - Photo: VGP/MTT Event, representatives of departments, branches, functional forces and coastal localities signed the covenant, committed to emulation with high determination, showing the spirit of solidarity and responsibility in anti -IUU. The main content includes: Promoting law propaganda on fisheries to each fisherman and each ship owner; strictly control 100% of fishing vessels when exporting - importing wharves, not leaving vessels to the sea without eligibility; strengthen patrol, examination and strictly handle violations, including criminal prosecution if sufficient grounds; Absolutely do not let the situation of fishing boats and local fishermen illegally exploit in foreign waters. This is also the preparation for the 5th inspection of the EC on anti -IUU in Vietnam in the coming time. To achieve the goals, the Provincial Peoples Committee called on all levels, branches and localities and especially fishermen in the whole province to uphold the sense of responsibility and voluntarily obey the law; legal and sustainable seafood exploitation and protection of aquatic resources; At the same time, resolutely did not participate, not helping the acts of illegal fishing, not reporting and not as prescribed. Khanh Hoa is currently one of the localities with a large offshore fleet of the country - Photo: VGP/MTH Khanh Hoa has a 490 km long coastline with 25 coastal communes and wards; 5,272 fishing vessels with a length of 6 m or more, of which 99.72% are licensed to exploit; 99.54% of a total of 1,514 ships of 15m or more have installed cruise monitoring equipment (VMS). 100% of ships have been registered and updated data on the national fishing database system (VNFISHBASE), however, in fact, there are still 5 vessels that have not been installed with VMS, 98 ships have not been granted or extended the exploitation license, nearly 500 overdue technical inspection ships, 52 ships that have not met food safety and hygiene standards. These limitations if not overcome thoroughly will affect the effort to remove the yellow card of Vietnam.
