IUU

Vietnam active in IUU combat

15:23 | 16/03/2023 Headlines

Vietnam’s coast guards have been working closely with localities to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) with concerted measures over the past years.

Kien Giang implements 180-day IUU fishing combat drive

19:37 | 04/02/2023 Import-Export

The southern coastal province of Kien Giang province is focusing on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in 180 days, from December 2022 to May 2023, to contribute to the country’s efforts to have the European Commission (EC)’s ‘yellow card’ warning on Vietnamese seafood removed.

The Coast Guard resolutely handles violations in IUU fishing

09:54 | 21/11/2022 Import-Export

VCN - The EC's "yellow card" warning for Vietnam's caught seafood products has not been removed. The risk of withdrawing the "red card" is very large if no more drastic and synchronous solution exists.

Seafood exporters are worried about IUU

10:31 | 29/09/2022 Import-Export

Vietnam's seafood processing and export enterprises are making efforts to fulfill the partners’ requirements, overcoming concerns about illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

EC’s upcoming visit to Vietnam to review IUU fishing fight

15:54 | 06/09/2022 Import-Export

Officials from the European Commission (EC) will visit Vietnam again this October to check measures against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in coastal areas, according to an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Vietnam Directorate of Fisheries (VDF).

Striving to remove IUU "yellow card" in 2022-2023

10:32 | 15/07/2022 Import-Export

VCN - In May 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development submitted to the Government for consideration a scheme to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing for the period 2022-2025, with a vision to 2030, to remove the "yellow card".

Vietnam boosts satellite-based vessel monitoring to eradicate IUU fishing

20:19 | 18/03/2022 Headlines

Installing vessel monitoring systems (VMS) is one of the important measures the European Commission (EC) recommended for Vietnam to remove the EC’s “yellow card” warning against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

EC practically inspects the situation of overcoming the IUU "Yellow Card" in the first quarter of 2022

09:45 | 05/11/2021 Import-Export

VCN - Talking to Customs News, Nguyen Quang Hung, Deputy Director of the General Department of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that it is expected that in the first quarter of 2022, the European Commission (EC) will examine

The growth of seafood exports depends on removing the "yellow card"

09:42 | 31/10/2021 Import-Export

VCN- At the conference, giving a picture of seafood exports from 2016 to 2021, Le Hang, Deputy Director of VASEP.PRO, said that seafood export growth in 2017 was nearly 18%, but gradually decreased in the following years.

EC recognises Vietnam’s efforts to fight IUU, to conduct inspection in Q1, 2022

17:19 | 30/10/2021 Headlines

The European Commission (EC) continued to recognise Vietnam's efforts to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to Deputy General Director of the Directorate of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Nguyen Quang Hung.

Vietnam’s border guards take tougher actions against IUU fishing

17:59 | 16/10/2021 Headlines

Vietnam’s Border Guard force has undertaken strong measures to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and prevent Vietnamese fishing boats from encroaching foreign waters over the last four years.

Ensuring IUU "yellow card" does not become "red card"

19:48 | 13/10/2021 Import-Export

VCN- “Vietnam is making great efforts from the central to the local level. Up to now, we think Vietnam cannot be raised from "yellow card" to "red Card” by the EC," the leader of the Directorate of Fisheries said.

Seafood exports could lose half a billion USD per year if given a "red card"

09:43 | 15/08/2021 Import-Export

VCN - In the case of a "red card" penalty, the most immediate and direct impact on Vietnamese seafood will be the EC's trade ban. At that time, it is estimated that Vietnam's seafood industry would lose about US$480 million per year if it lost the EU mark

Report on impact of IUU yellow card on Vietnam’s seafood industry released

17:58 | 10/08/2021 Import-Export

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) and the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam on August 10 released “A Trade-Based Analysis of the Economic Impact of Non-Compliance with Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing: The Case of Viet

“Clear out” the violating fishing vessel in October 2022 to soon get the IUU “yellow card” removed

08:53 | 17/07/2021 Import-Export

VCN - To get the "yellow card" removed, one of the important tasks is to completely stop Vietnamese fishing vessels violating foreign waters.