Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – NA deputies questioned about measuresto remove the EuropeanCommission (EC)’s‘yellow card’ warning to Vietnam’s fisheries sector during the question &answer (Q&A) session to Ministerof Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, as part of the 14th NA’songoing eighth session on November 6.
Accordingto Cuong, in October 2017, the EC issued thewarning to Vietnam due to the country’s failure to demonstrate sufficientprogress in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)fishing.
Vietnam has focused on promoting efforts andimplementing action programmes to remove the “yellow card”, he stressed.
Cuong said after two years implementing many measures, Vietnam is recorgnised asno longer violating illegal fishing acts in Pacific and island nations. However,violations in the southern water still remain.
On November 6, the Eurpepan Union (EU) sent a delegation to Vietnam for thesecond inspection of the implementation ofthe EC's recommendations to combat IUU violations.
More drastic measures should be takenby the Government, sectors, localities and fishermen as well to definitely dealwith the issue, Cuong said.
Speaking at the Q&A session, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said theGovernement will pay attention to carrying out a number of key tasks,especially restructuring the sector in connection with re-organising its productionby the value chain, towards improving the productivity, quality, andcompetitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products.
Hestressed that it is a must to completely solve the problem, and asked NAdeputies in localities, especially those from the 28 coastal provinces andcities, to support local officials to effectively implement EC’srecommendations, thus removing the “yellow card” at an early date. /.
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