Dong Thap, Oct. 13 -- Authorities of the southern Dong Thap province are clamping down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as part of the country's push to have the European Commission's "yellow card" warning against Vietnamese seafood lifted soon. The province tracks all offshore fishing vessels, with particular scrutiny on high-risk units, and routinely addresses boundary breaches. Regulators impose stiff fines on boats that lose signals for longer than six hours or operate for more than 10 days without transmitting data. To date, no vessel of Dong Thap has been nabbed for illegal fishing in foreign waters. A list of high-risk vessels has been loaded into the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) database, allowing enforcemen...