NA discusses fisheries and forests
A draft amendment to the 2003 Law on Fisheries would allow provincial people’s committees to assign, lease and withdraw sea surface areas from organisations and individuals for aquaculture farming but a National Assembly working body says the Government or ministries should do the job. Presenting an assessment report on the draft revised Law on Fisheries at the ongoing third session of the 14th National Assembly in Hà Nội on June 6, Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment, Phan Xuân Dũng, urged reconsideration of the article, saying that giving provincial people’s committees this power would be impractical for large-scale projects which impact several provinces.
