IUU yellow cards continue to affect Vietnam's aqua industry

Vietnam's customs online reported on December 8th that the solution proposed by Vietnam had worked well more than three years after the European Commission issued a "yellow card" warning to vietnam for illegal, unregulated and unregulated fishing.
but there is still little hope of lifting the "yellow card".
exports have fallen sharply Three years after the EC issued a yellow card warning, Vietnam's marine industry has been severely affected, with exports falling by 6% in 2018, 15% in 2019, 13% in the first nine months of 2020 and expected to export about $340 million to the EU in 2020, down 10% year-on-year and 28% from 2017.
Vietnam's Aquaculture Authority said the EU, once Vietnam's second-largest export market after being yellow-carded by the EC, had fallen to fifth place (after Japan, the US, South Korea and ASEAN).
A hope of removing the "yellow card" is slim, even though a series of measures have been taken, the situation of Vietnamese fishing vessels violating foreign waters continues to become increasingly complex, fishing vessels do not have registration numbers, fishing vessels are not flagged by foreign arrests but the captain and crew are Vietnamese, and so on, there is no sign of an end to the situation, the goal of canceling the "yellow card" is still very difficult.
vietnam's use of new administrative penalties for violations of foreign waters remains limited (only 1 case) and local treatment of fishing vessels violating foreign waters is not uniform.
the C.I.A. is concerned that this is one of the main reasons why the EC has not lifted its "yellow card" warning for Vietnam and will be given a "red card" warning even if the situation does not improve at the next inspection.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam stressed that the EC recommended that Viet Nam focus resources (human, financial) on infrastructure and vigorously guide the implementation of the Fisheries Act 2017 and its guidance documents, in particular with regard to IUU fishing;
the EC affirmed that Vietnam would not cancel its "yellow card" if it did not stop fishing vessels from violating foreign waters.
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