Hanoi, March 3 -- The European Commission (EC)'s fifth inspection delegation on the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is scheduled to visit Vietnam from March 9 to 19, according to the Department of Fishery and Fisheries Surveillance under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.|

To ensure thorough and coordinated preparations, the department has asked the Departments of Agriculture and Environment in coastal provinces and cities with fishing fleets to urgently finalise concise and comprehensive reports for working sessions with the EC delegation. All data must be logical, verifiable and consistent with the national fisheries database (VNFishbase) and other relevant systems.

Dossiers must be arranged s...