On the afternoon of September 23, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the 14th meeting of the National Steering Committee on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (Steering Committee on IUU).
The meeting agreed to assess that in the past time, the work of combating IUU fishing has achieved positive results, with each quarter being better than the previous quarter. However, the seafood industry, offshore fishing activities are generally not sustainable, and have not removed the EU's "yellow card".
According to the Prime Minister, the main reason is that some Party committees and authorities, especially the leaders, are negligent, subjective, lax in leadership and direction, do not resolutely, not comprehensively, comprehensively; the awareness of law compliance of a part of the people is still limited, even disregarding the law and dealing with functional agencies.
The work of inspection, supervision, inspection, detection and handling is not regular, not continuous, and not drastic.
In the coming time, the Prime Minister requested the establishment of a Working Group headed by the Deputy Minister of Public Security with the participation of leaders of agencies to thoroughly handle detected criminal violations, trying to complete them before October 15.
The Steering Committee meets weekly to review the implementation of tasks of ministries, agencies and localities; regularly inspect, urge and raise people's awareness.
The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to continue to preside over and coordinate with ministries and branches to inspect and urge localities to promptly rectify, thoroughly handle and thoroughly handle IUU fishing violations, especially in key localities such as: Quang Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Da Nang, Quang Ngai, Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh Long, Ca Mau, An Giang...
The Ministry of National Defense increases resources to control fishing vessels entering and leaving ports, patrol, inspect, and thoroughly handle fishing vessels that are not qualified to participate in fishing activities on banks, river mouths, seas, islands, etc.
Carry out peak periods of patrolling and controlling; direct the authorities to urgently complete the handling of fishing vessels violating serious IUU fishing: Loss of VMS connection, crossing borders, illegal fishing in foreign waters.
The Ministry of Public Security will make a list and conduct an investigation of fishermen who violated foreign waters and have been returned to the country to identify and thoroughly handle brokerage lines that send fishing vessels and fishermen to illegally exploit abroad.
Direct the completion of criminal proceedings against violations according to the provisions of Resolution No. 04/2024/NQ-HDTP of the Council of Judges of the Supreme People's Court.
Chairmen of the People's Committees of coastal provinces and cities are responsible to the Government and the Prime Minister if they do not complete their tasks.
Chairmen of provinces, cities, wards and special zones urgently focus on leading, directing and allocating resources ( human resources, funding, equipment, means) to synchronously deploy measures to combat IUU fishing to prevent and prevent the emergence of fishing vessels violating illegal fishing in foreign waters; thoroughly punish fishing vessels violating serious IUU fishing activities.
