The central city of Da Nang is one of the biggest fisheries hubs of Vietnam. As a gateway for thousands of offshore fishing vessels each year, the city  plays a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with the Fisheries Law and the European Commission’s recommendations in its efforts to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The city’s fishing ports have made active contributions to the fight against IUU fishing.

Port staff have closely coordinated with the fisheries surveillance representative office to strictly enforce procedures, including reporting information and monitoring the long fishing journeys of vessels. Only when captains submit a fishing logbook with complete and accurate information is the vessel allowed to unload goods at the port.

Alongside tighter management of fishing activities, fishing ports and docking facilities across Da Nang have undergone major improvements and modernization in recent years, laying an important foundation for sustainable fisheries development and helping meet requirements for combating IUU fishing.

Since the beginning of 2025,  Da Nang authorities have dealt with 66 administrative violations related to IUU fishing, imposing fines totaling nearly VND7 billion (over $267,000 ).

According to Mr. Nguyen Lai, head of the Tho Quang fishing port's management board, most fishermen now understand the anti-IUU fishing regulations, become aware of their responsibilities, and voluntarily follow the rules, knowing that failure to do so would prevent them from going out to the sea or accessing the State's support policies.

He said that by effectively controlling vessel movements and catch volumes, fishing ports play a key role in efforts toward the removal of the EC's "yellow card" warning.

Many vessel owners in Da Nang have proactively installed one or two additional vessel monitoring devices to ensure stable and continuous signal transmission to the national fishing vessel management system.