Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasised the need to clearly identify responsibilities in the leadership, instruction and management of Party committees and administrations regarding the continued violations in seafood exploitation, while addressing the 14th meeting of the National Steering Committee for Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Prevention and Control on September 23. Speaking at the meeting which was connected online to 21 coastal provinces and centrally-run cities, PM Chinh stressed that Vietnam is a coastal nation with abundant fishery resources and a long-standing tradition of offshore fishing and exploitation. What is important is that seafood exploitation must comply with international regulations and Vietnamese law, he said. The PM emphasised that the ultimate goal is to put an end to IUU fishing so that the EC can remove its warning. Stressing that it is unacceptable to remain powerless in the face of violations in seafood exploitation, PM Chinh expressed his expectation that this will be the final meeting of the steering committee and that IUU fishing will come to an end.