A Vietnamese fishing vessel (Photo: VNA)The site wrote that almost five years after the EC’s warning,Vietnam has been actively focusing on drastic actions following the commission’srecommendations and regulations on IUU fishing in order to remove the warningas soon as possible.
The country has reviewed and supplemented legal documentsand enhancing sanctions in the revised Fisheries Law, documents, and actionplans of the government. In the last online meeting between Vietnam and the EC inNovember 2021, EC officials appreciated the changes in terms of legalmatters, one of the four key recommendations made by the EC to Vietnam to solveIUU fishing.
Besides, Vietnam has applied information technology anddigital transformation in traceability, towards ensuring digitalisation ofprofessional procedures for monitoring and supervising aquatic productsthroughout value chain in a manner suitable with domestic and internationalconsumption demands.
The site, however, noted that Vietnam is facing manydifficulties to be delisted from the group of “warned countries”. Among of themare the monitoring of fishing vessels in the recent years due to the resurgenceof COVID-19, and the number of fishing vessels still remained high.
Vietnam should learn experience of its neighbour, Thailand,which had a “yellow card” removed in 2019 after four years, it wrote, addingthat the nation can carry out reform in the legal system, invest in theMonitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) system, and further cooperate withRegional Fisheries Management Organisations and neighbouring countries./.
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