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Coast Guard stands side by side with fishermen in IUU fishing combat

The Vietnam Coast Guard High Command has carried out many activities accompanying fishermen in coastal localities in socio-economic development, and this has become a bright spot in the mass mobilisation work in the new period.
Coast Guard stands side by side with fishermen in IUU fishing combat ảnh 1Vietnam Coast Guard presents national flags to fishermen (Photo: VNA)
Phu Yen (VNA) – The Vietnam Coast Guard High Command has carried outmany activities accompanying fishermen in coastal localities insocio-economic development, and this has become a bright spot in the mass mobilisationwork in the new period.

Commander of the force Major General LeQuang Dao said that from 2017 to April 2023, they implemented the “CoastGuard standing shoulder-to-shoulder with fishermen” programme in 22 coastal localities.

The programme aims to step up disseminations on the Party'sguidelines and the State's policies and laws; build safe areas and a strongpolitical system; support localities in socio-economic and cultural development,new-style rural area building, implementation of social welfare activities; assistfishermen in working at sea and contributing to maintaining security andsovereignty over sea and islands; and mobilise human resources, means and shipsto participate in the protection of sovereignty over sea and islands.

Since 2022, the force has disseminated the Party's guidelines and policies,and the State's policies and laws on sea, islands, and illegal, unreported andunregulated (IUU) fishing to nearly 50,000 people and fishermen.

It has mobilised different resources to provide about 18billion VND (768,200 USD) for social welfare and poverty reduction activities.

Dao affirmed that the Vietnam Coast Guard is one of the coreforces in dissemination, advocacy and implementation of anti-IUU fishingregulations. In the first quarter of 2023, it has provided disseminationfor 1,435 Vietnamese fishing vessels, exchanged 255 messages related to IUUfishing prevention and control, and verified cases of Vietnamese vessels stayinguncontacted.

It has deployed 30 ships to perform patrols and controls.

Thanks to these efforts, the number of Vietnamese vesselsviolating foreign waters decreased in the first quarter of this year.

In the coming time, the force will continue coordinatingclosely with the Vietnam People’s Navy in using surveillance aircraft tograsp the situation at sea, monitor and supervise fishing vessels operating inthe sea area bordering Vietnam - Thailand - Malaysia - Indonesia, and deployforces and ship to patrol and control IUU fishing in the Gulf of Tonkin./.
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