Hanoi (VNA), April 28 -- Competent ministries, sectors and localities should continue efforts to lift the European Commission's " yellow card " against the Vietnamese seafood products for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as an inspection team of the commission will visit Vietnam soon, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.

He told the Vietnam News Agency that under a directive recently issued by Party Central Committee's Secretariat, the whole political system is engaged in the fight against IUU fishing.

All of the EC's recommendations on IUU fishing were included in the Law on Fisheries. However, the enforcement of the law has shown several challenges due to limited human resources of the fishery ...