Nghe An: Inspect and punish 5 fishing boats for violations

The inspection team includes leaders of the Fisheries Department, fisheries control forces, representatives of district People's Committees and coastal border stations to discuss and thoroughly implement the task. Photo: Nguyen Hai

After 6 days of operation, the team inspected 87 vehicles, warned 7 vehicles and fined 5 vehicle owners with a total amount of 40.4 million VND. Specifically, 3 ship owners were heavily fined, each ship was fined 12.5 million VND, including the fishing boat with license plate TH-A 3128-TS of Mr. Nguyen Van Dung and 2 fish raft owners, Mr. Pham Van Ba ​​and Mr. Mai Hung Cuong, both residing in Hai Ha, Nghi Son (Thanh Hoa) for the act of storing public electric shockers tofishing.

Fisheries control forces approached a coastal trawler in Hoang Mai town for inspection. Photo: Contributor

Other ship owners who were fined include Mr. Pham Viet Huy - owner of fishing boat TH-91175-TS residing in Hai Chau ward, Nghi Son town and Mr. Nguyen Quoc Viet - owner of fishing boat with license plate NA-90798-TS in Nam Thinh hamlet, Dien Ngoc commune, Dien Chau district, who were fined 400,000 VND and 2.5 million VND respectively for not carrying identification papers of crew members and workers on board, and not recording correctly in the fishing boat registration book for boats over 15m. In addition to the fine, the delegation drew up a record to confiscate 3 electric shockers and 15m of electric wire.

A fishing boat owner with evidence of illegal fishing, which is electric shock to exploit aquatic resources in an destructive manner in the waters of Hoang Mai town. Photo: Contributor

Mr. Tran Chau Thanh - Head of the Legal Inspection Department, Department of Fisheries said: This year, facing difficulties in the exploitation industry due to increased gasoline and oil costs, together with inspection and supervision toprotection of aquatic resourcesCoastal, the provincial interdisciplinary delegation prioritizes propaganda and reminder activities.

Electric shock tool set used for fishing at sea, with this type of tool, each time the electric shock is applied, aquatic species within a 10 m area will be2destroyed, difficult to survive. Photo: Contributor

During the two inspections at the end of March and April 2022, the inspection team mainly approached fishing vessels to propagate and remind fishermen. However, recent inspections show that violations in fishing activities are still numerous and increasingly complicated, especially in early March, a number of fishing vessels of fishermen from other provinces entered the area.Nghe An coastal areaexploitation but there were signs of obstruction and resistance, the functional forces and the Nghe An interdisciplinary inspection team approached the ship to inspect and remind./.