Da Nang’s Steering Board 127 has developed plans for enhancing checks and controls over the smuggling of seafood products.  The agencies involved are the city’s Markets Management Bureau, the local border guards, the Department of Health, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Police and Customs departments. 

Accordingly, the above-named units will increase their checks at local airports, seaports, road and railway routes, maritime borders, wholesale markets, industrial and export processing zones, seafood production, trading and packing establishments, and supermarkets from 10 June to late December.

The purpose is to detect and prevent the transporting and trading of unquarantined frozen seafood products through local seaports and international border gates. 

In recent weeks, the smuggling of illegally-imported seafoods such as frogs, fish and eels from China to the northern provinces has been extensive.  The smuggled products not only threaten the domestic aquaculture industries, but are also harmful to consumers' health.