(TN&MT) - Up to now, Da Nang City has 567/588 fishing vessels with the largest length of 15m or more installed with voyage monitoring devices. Since 2007, Da Nang has not had any fishing vessels violating the law on exploiting seafood in foreign waters that have been arrested and handled.
Currently, in Da Nang City, there are a total of 1,230 fishing vessels with a total capacity of 401,360 horsepower in operation. The annual seafood output reaches 36,500-37,500 tons, accounting for 60-65% of the value of aquaculture-agriculture-forestry production.
In order to support each other in exploiting aquatic products, consuming products, preventing natural disaster risks; coordinating with functional forces to participate in environmental protection, contributing to protecting the sovereignty of sea and islands; the city has mobilized fishermen to establish Solidarity Groups for production at sea (Solidarity Groups). Up to now, 94 Solidarity Groups have been established in the area with 680 participating fishing vessels. Currently, 575/588 (97.8%) of offshore fishing vessels participate in Solidarity Groups.
Thanks to the support and assistance at sea, fishing boats in the Solidarity Group have boldly gone offshore to exploit offshore fishing grounds and changed fishing grounds; the time at sea has also been longer. The Solidarity Groups that use offshore dragnets, offshore purse seines, trap nets, and fly nets have effectively gone offshore to exploit the waters around the Hoang Sa archipelago, and the income of the crew has increased.
From 2019 to now, the city has supported nearly 23 billion for 977 fishing boats of 860 fishing boat owners, including: 40% support for hull insurance for fishing boats or logistics for catching aquatic resources (over 4.2 billion). 100% support for purchasing journey monitoring equipment installed on fishing boats and the first year's subscription fee (over 17 billion); the remaining support for equipment and machinery used in product preservation; equipment used in fishing...
In recent times, the Fisheries Sub-Department has proactively coordinated with localities, the Management Board of fishing ports and fishing ports to organize propaganda and guide fishermen to comply with regulations on recording, submitting reports and logbooks of fishing activities, and ending illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Up to now, 567/588 fishing vessels with the largest length of 15m or more have installed voyage monitoring equipment; 21 vessels have not installed it (the reason is that 20 vessels are currently temporarily suspended; 01 vessel has caught fire and has not been repaired). Since 2007, Da Nang has not had any fishing vessels violating regulations on exploiting seafood in foreign waters arrested and handled.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Da Nang City said that in the coming time, the city will step up propaganda and guidance for fishermen on the contents of IUU; management and use of voyage monitoring equipment; guidance on revised and supplemented contents such as fishing logbooks, crew registers, regulations on fishing vessel crews by vessel group, confirmation and certification of aquatic product origin... so that fishermen can promptly grasp and implement.
In addition, continue to implement mechanisms and policies to support fisheries development and legal regulations on vessel management; reorganize production in seafood exploitation; fisheries management database; measures to conserve, protect and develop aquatic resources.
Strengthen inspection and examination of fishing vessels exploiting seafood at sea and when entering and leaving fishing ports; strictly handle violations according to the provisions of Decree No. 42/2019/ND-CP, especially fishing vessels illegally violating foreign waters, fishing vessels not installing or not turning on voyage monitoring devices; violations of fishing logs and entry and exit from ports.
From 2019 to present, 48 fishing vessels that lost their monitoring signals for 10 days or more have been detected and administratively sanctioned for failure to maintain the operation of fishing vessel monitoring equipment, with a total fine of 1.2 billion VND.
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