Pattaya shifts focus from trash to beaches for World Environment Day

PATTAYA:--Unable to do much about its trash crisis, Pattaya officials did release fish for World Environment Day.

 

Deputy Mayor Apichart Virapal and Thanet Manoi, director of the Coastal and Sea Resources Management Department, joined 400 students, civil servants and residents on the beach at the Surf Kitchen restaurant in Jomtien Beach June 5 for the release of 18,000 white seabass.

 

White seabass is a popular item on Thai menus, leading to incessant fishing. The Environment Day activity can partially restock Pattaya Bay’s depleted supplies.

 

Pattaya also organized beach cleanups and planting of mangrove trees for the day as part of the city’s campaign to raise environmental awareness.

 

Trash bins were placed along the beach as part of the activities, although Pattaya’s ability to actually empty them remains in question, thanks to an overwhelmed trash hauler and full city dumps.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-06-15

yada yada yada...tour groups and budget tours now own the beach in pattaya,which is nothing more than a stinky boat launch/refueling staion,to accomdate the ''free morning parasial'' for the budget tourists..but we have 7 malls so thiers THAT

Edited June 15, 20188 yr by mok199
speliings

23 hours ago, Rimmer said:

the release of 18,000 white seabass.

Only two will survive being immersed in Pattaya bay sea-water.