{
  "id": 14665397,
  "title": "Ministries require fishing fleet management and seafood traceability enhancement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/ministries-require-fishing-fleet-management-and-seafood-traceability",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T09:56:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SGGP English Edition",
    "slug": "sggp-english-edition",
    "url": "https://en.sggp.org.vn/ministries-require-fishing-fleet-management-and-seafood-traceability-enhancement-post130314.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has called on coastal provinces to improve fishing fleet management and seafood traceability in response to EU concerns about illegal fishing practices. Deputy Minister Vo Van Hung has signed a document directing provincial and city leaders responsible for fishing vessels to enhance fleet management, control seafood harvesting activities, and trace the origins of captured seafood.\n\nLocalities are tasked with comparing fishing vessel data in their management records with the national fisheries database (VNFishbase) to ensure full and accurate updates on vessel registrations, inspections, licenses, VMS, and vessel operational statuses. Vessels must be classified into groups: those eligible for operation, ineligible, no longer operational, and deregistered. Specific agencies, units, and individuals must be assigned to monitor each vessel group, identify issues, and address missing, incorrect, or inconsistent data.\n\nThe ministry urges urgent review of vessels without licenses, those with expired licenses, or licenses that do not match management records. Ineligible vessels must be closely monitored to prevent ongoing illegal exploitation, and licensing procedures should follow regulations strictly without additional steps, paperwork, or conditions.\n\nThe ministry also emphasizes strict control over fishing vessels entering and leaving ports. Port management boards, fisheries agencies, and functional forces must coordinate inspections of vessel information and licenses, recording data on port entries and exits in the electronic seafood traceability system (eCDT). This data should be regularly cross-checked with port records and inspection results from functional forces. Localities must also compare actual unloaded seafood volumes with logbooks, VMS data, and eCDT data, investigating any abnormal signs related to time, fishing routes, species, volumes, or unloading locations.\n\nData on harvested seafood origins should only be confirmed or certified if requirements are met. In cases of abnormal signs or inconsistent information, functional agencies must verify matters before processing applications. Misdeclarations of output and legitimizing illegally caught seafood must be detected, documented, and addressed according to authority guidelines. The ministry aims to address the European Commission's recommendations from its fifth inspection on combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by requesting localities to demonstrate implementation results with verifying documents and updated management system data.",
  "summary": "The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has urged coastal provinces to tighten fishing fleet management and strengthen seafood traceability to address EU concerns over illegal fishing. Fishing trip digitization aids Vietnam's push to lift IUU yellow card HCMC considers 'yellow card-red card' system for IUU fishing violations HCMC accelerates anti-IUU fishing measures ahead of June deadline…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}