Hunt launched for fishing boat filmed catching 10 bottlenose dolphins

Hunt launched for fishing boat filmed catching 10 bottlenose dolphins

Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Department has ordered a search for a Thai fishing trawler which was caught on video, posted on social media, catching about 10 bottlenose dolphins in the trawler’s nets.

The 5-minute clip, posted on the Facebook page of ‘Anuwat’, also shows trawler crew stepping on some of the captured dolphins and some of the dolphins being pulled on board and then being thrown back into the sea.

The department’s director-general, Mr. Jatuporn Burutpat, told Thai PBS today that he had already been informed about the clip, that the trawler was based in the southern province of Pattani and that the incident took place last month.

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