‘Positive signal’ from European Parliament about Thailand’s IUU status: deputy PM

By The Nation

 

Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikulya, standing third left, inspects a fishery monitoring centre on Monday.

 

The European Parliament has sent a positive signal about the European Union upgrading Thailand’s status in regard to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from the current ‘yellow card’ slapped on the country by the EU in 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikulya said on Monday.

 

A member of the European Parliament hinted to such effect during a session to exchange views on IUU with Virachai Plasai, Thai ambassador to the US and head IUU negotiator, last Wednesday, he said.

 

The Kingdom has attempted to resolve its IUU problems ever since the EU issued the yellow-card warning against the Thai fisheries sector three years ago.

 

Virachai has updated the European Parliament’s Fishery Committee about the work the country has done so far to improve practices in its fishery sector, the deputy PM said after a meeting on the matter on Monday.

 

The meeting had endorsed the project to remove illegal trawlers from the sector, he announced.

 

Under the fishery management plan approved by the Cabinet in November 2015, the authorities will allocate Bt3 billion to buy 680 fishing boats, thus taking them out of the industry in order to enable effective regulation.

 

The three-phase project will begin with the purchasing of 409 small and medium-sized vessels in the 10-60 tonne gross range by the end of September next year, he said.

 

Large trawlers will be removed from the sector later.

 

The project also aims to decrease the overall number of fishing vessels with a view to sustaining resources for the sector, he explained.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30350212

 

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"OK to keep Chinese tourists or should we throw them back?"

 

 

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6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

"OK to keep Chinese tourists or should we throw them back?"

 

 

Only the little ones.

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

Large trawlers will be removed from the sector later. 

When ?  After getting let of the hook they go back to being slackers.  Somebody may want to make them agree to a time or it will happen "later", whenever that is. 

Positive signal. Did the EU agree to grant asylum to all Burmese slaves on Thai fishing vessels and processing factories?

43 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

Positive signal. Did the EU agree to grant asylum to all Burmese slaves on Thai fishing vessels and processing factories?

Slaves??? .... What slaves?

How easy would it be to stop this inhumane practice but little seems to happen. They could save a lot of money from the proposed buy back scheme by confiscating the boats that operate with slave labour. Kill two birds with one stone. 

Oh...is this the monthly "everybody loves us" - news by the government?

Where they tell us, what other people say about them, no matter what other people actually say?!

1 hour ago, DM07 said:

Oh...is this the monthly "everybody loves us" - news by the government?

Where they tell us, what other people say about them, no matter what other people actually say?!

I guess that is meant to be humour.

14 minutes ago, Yme said:

I guess that is meant to be humour.

I guess, you haven't paid much attention...?!

10 hours ago, webfact said:

'The European Parliament has sent a positive signal ... ... A member of the European Parliament hinted to such effect ...'

A positive hint, apparently. Pity Thai politicians - like politicians everywhere - tend to hear what they want to hear.

So how many in the fleet? Even removing big ones but put 10 small ones in their place doesn't fool everyone.

 

40% of 3 billion baht. Now that has a nice ring to it.