On April 22, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee said it had agreed on the policy of hiring monitoring equipment (TBGS) services for groups of fishing vessels that do not meet operating conditions. This solution aims to tightly control and prevent the situation of fishing vessels going to sea illegally, contributing to removing the "Yellow Card" warning of the European Commission (EC).
Through review, the whole province currently has 186 fishing vessels that do not meet operating conditions, of which 26 vessels are registering for classification and 160 vessels are not registered. These are groups at high risk of violating regulations on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Every week, localities have to work directly with ship owners who do not meet the conditions to grasp the situation, requesting to bring ships ashore to anchor, not to leave fishing gear on the ship and not to go out to sea.
However, management work still has many limitations. Supervision is mainly carried out manually, depending on local forces and the declaration of ship owners. Due to the lack of a separate monitoring system, not updating the status of ships anchored or moving in a timely manner, and the lack of an early warning mechanism, it is difficult to detect cases of arbitrarily leaving positions.
In addition, the compliance awareness of a part of ship owners is not high, there is still a situation of avoidance and dishonest declaration. For ships anchored outside the province, control is almost impossible. Data for management is still not synchronized, updated slowly, posing a potential risk of IUU violations.
Therefore, hiring TBGS services is necessary to improve management efficiency. The system will help accurately locate fishing vessels, monitor the anchoring status inside and outside the province; promptly warn vessels of unusual movements, equipment sabotage or nearing power outage...
Service rental is carried out according to the budget decentralization mechanism, with commune-level People's Committees proactively allocating funds, ensuring suitability with local management capacity and needs.
