Deputy Minister of MARD works with Tien Giang province

ABO - On the afternoon of March 17, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam worked with Tien Giang province on the implementation of Directive No. 689, Official Telegraph No. 732 and Directive No. 45 of the Prime Minister on the prevention of fishing vessels fishing offshore, violating the territorial waters of your country. Deputy Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan and leaders of related departments received the delegation.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam speaks at the working session. Photo: thtg.vn

In Tien Giang province, there are 1,382 fishing vessels with total capacity of over 500,800 horsepower, mostly offshore fishing vessels. In recent years, although the relevant units of Tien Giang province regularly disseminate, advocate and disseminate the regulations on legal fishing, but because of the traditional fishing grounds increasingly difficult to produce Therefore, some ship owners violate illegal fishing in foreign waters. Tien Giang has 9 fishermen arrested by your country.

In the coming time, with the increasing number of fishing vessels while the fishery resources are decreasing, it is expected that the trend of fishing vessels violating offshore fishing will increase. So, Tien Giang province will accelerate many solutions to stop infringement according to Official Telegraph No. 732, Directive 689, Prime Ministerial Directive 45 including to promote the propagation and request of offshore fishing vessels, installation of surveillance equipment, etc… In the working session, Tien Giang has proposed that MARD continue to hold negotiations and sign the establishment of the fishing incident hotline Illegal with countries in the region.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam requested that Tien Giang province firstly to raise the awareness of the shipowners about the legitimate exploitation of the sea, to thoroughly grasp the exploitation plan of the means. In particular, the province need to improve the role of leaders of political organizations and authorities at all levels in preventing fishing vessels from violating their territorial waters, effectively implementing Directive 689, Directive 45 and Official Telegraph No. 732 of the Prime Minister, to build a beautiful diplomatic image between Vietnam and other countries.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by HUU CHI)