More protected marine life found on menus at Phuket restaurants

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More protected marine life found on menus at Phuket restaurants

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The photo of the reef shard on sale at a restaurant in Karon posted on the Go-Eco Phuket Facebook page. Photo: Go-Eco Phuket

 

PHUKET:-- A team from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) Phuket office inspected a number of restaurants in Karon this week to check whether they had protected marine life on their menus.

 

The DMCR inspection uncovered one restaurant with protected Parrotfish on the menu, and a second with protected reef shark.

 

The issue of protected marine life being sold in restaurants came to light when the ‘GO-Eco PHUKET ’ Facebook page posted photos of Parrotfish being sold in a restaurant on Dec 5.

 

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/more-protected-marine-life-found-on-menus-at-phuket-restaurants-65040.php#85Z6SYtevKRAjLeE.97

 

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[Blue Muton]

Seems like they're not quite as well protected as they ought to be.

With legitimate fish and seafood in such abundance it's puzzling that they feel the need to endanger protected species, can only be down to greed I guess.

[Rhys]

Regulating an income maker.... hmmm.. that's going to work...

[yellowboat]

12 hours ago, Blue Muton said:

Seems like they're not quite as well protected as they ought to be.

With legitimate fish and seafood in such abundance it's puzzling that they feel the need to endanger protected species, can only be down to greed I guess.

Just outward greed and stupidity.  There are huge fines for tourists that feed fish in protected areas.  Wonder how big these esteemed restaurateurs and pillars of the community's B500 fine will be.   Hope Michelin bans these sort of places.  Sadly they seem to bestow accolades on shark fin eateries.   A sad world we live in. 

[stevenl]

If making photos and showing these on social media is the way forward to protect the seas and get authorities to act, the more we do this the better it is.

[Blue Muton]

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Just outward greed and stupidity.  There are huge fines for tourists that feed fish in protected areas.  Wonder how big these esteemed restaurateurs and pillars of the community's B500 fine will be.   Hope Michelin bans these sort of places.  Sadly they seem to bestow accolades on shark fin eateries.   A sad world we live in. 

Good point, I'd forgotten about the fish feeding episode.