Hanoi, Oct. 21 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 21 chaired the 18th meeting of the National Steering Committee for Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, commending ministries and localities for their recent progress while urging stronger, more decisive actions to completely end IUU violations.

The online meeting, which was connected with 21 coastal provinces and centrally-run cities, was a regular sitting held on every Tuesday to intensify efforts in the fight against IUU fishing.

At its 17th meeting on October 14, the PM assigned 21 urgent tasks to ministries, agencies and localities to end IUU fishing. So far, eight have been completed, including the issuance of an official dispatch and an action pla...