Thai Navy seize IUU boat off Phuket

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Thai Navy seize IUU boat off Phuket

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The ship was seized early Saturday morning (Sept 14) and now sits offshore at the Phuket Deep Sea Port. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: An illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) boat with eight Thais on board has been seized in Thai waters off Phuket, Vice Admiral Ronnapop Karnjanapan of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command announced yesterday (Sept 15).

 

V/Adm Ronnapop, who also serves as the Director of Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center (Thai-MECC), announced the seizure at press conference held at the Third Area Command at Cape Panwa.

Also present for the announcement were Sakorn Poodam of the Phuket Marine Office and and Wichit Police Chief Col Nikorn Somsuk.

Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/thai-navy-seize-iuu-boat-off-phuket-72887.php#asTzFFeIRWHGdQHo.99 

 

 

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[Old Croc]

IUU poll.

Will this vessel:

 

1.  Sink at it's mooring,

2. Catch fire and sink at it's mooring

3. Break it's mooring and drift into a nearby reef or island, or

4. Disappear in the night never to be seen again. 

[LivinginKata]

Fishing boat ..... ?? Looks like a small coastal freighter to me. 

[legend49]

1 hour ago, LivinginKata said:

Fishing boat ..... ?? Looks like a small coastal freighter to me. 

A future underwater reef within weeks might be a better description?

[Srikcir]

the boat turned on its AIS, allowing officers at the Phuket Port in-Port out Control Center (PIPO) to identify it as the “Uthaiwan”.

Or one could have read the name of the ship on the bow.
 

[Cake Monster]

48 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

the boat turned on its AIS, allowing officers at the Phuket Port in-Port out Control Center (PIPO) to identify it as the “Uthaiwan”.

Or one could have read the name of the ship on the bow.
 

It probably has the same name on its stern as well.

[fxe1200]

Obviously a reefer or cargo ship which can hold frozen meats and fish.

[stevenl]

59 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

the boat turned on its AIS, allowing officers at the Phuket Port in-Port out Control Center (PIPO) to identify it as the “Uthaiwan”.

Or one could have read the name of the ship on the bow.
 

One has to be close to read the name on the bow.

 

Excellent they got one. Sink it please.

[sammieuk1]

The admiral will be handing in his ballooning shopping list of hardware to combat this dire threat ????

[beechbum]

5 hours ago, Srikcir said:

the boat turned on its AIS, allowing officers at the Phuket Port in-Port out Control Center (PIPO) to identify it as the “Uthaiwan”.

Or one could have read the name of the ship on the bow.
 

Do you know what a ship's AIS is and why they're meant to have them?

[Just Weird]

7 hours ago, Srikcir said:

the boat turned on its AIS, allowing officers at the Phuket Port in-Port out Control Center (PIPO) to identify it as the “Uthaiwan”.

Or one could have read the name of the ship on the bow.
 

Perhaps at the time 'one' didn't have the visual contact 'one' needs to read the name.